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Jennifer Holness is a Jamaican-born Canadian film and television director, producer and screenwriter. She operates Hungry Eyes Media Inc., along with her business partner and husband Sudz Sutherland.
Tomorrow our founder Jennifer Holness will be joining The Hollywood Reporter at #ParkHyatt for the inaugural Women in Entertainment Canada. She will be speaking amongst some of the most powerful women in entertainment between 9:40 -10:30 am during the Art of Leadership panel.
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Jennifer Holness is a Canadian film and TV producer, writer and director with a focus on diverse and social issues. She has won multiple awards and created or co-created shows like BLK: An Origin Story, Shoot the Messenger and Home Again.
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Jennifer Holness is the director of Subjects of Desire. She has worked as a documentary filmmaker for nearly 20 years.
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Jennifer Holness left Jamaica at an early age and moved to Toronto with her single mother. (See also Caribbean Canadians.) Holness grew up in a housing project in the Lawrence and Bathurst area of Toronto; this shaped the gritty but affectionate view of the city often depicted in her work. She studied political science at York University, where she...
Holness co-directed the NFB documentary Speakers for the Dead (2000) with Sutherland. The film, which examines a struggle to restore an African Canadian cemetery in Priceville, Ontario, displayed Holness’s commitment to challenging sanitized images of Canada. “I was raised in Canada, and I was acutely aware that my culture was not part of the histo...
In February 2021, the Canadian Media Producers Association recognized Holness’s contributions to Canadian film and television with the $10,000 Established Producer Award. See also Black Women in the Arts.
Best Documentary Film (Speakers for the Dead), Black Film and Video Network’s Reel Black Award (2000)HBO Award for Best Short Film (My Father’s Hands), Acapulco International Black Film Festival (2000)Best Drama (My Father’s Hands), Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award (2000)Best Director (My Father’s Hands), Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award (2000)Jan 27, 2022 · Having worked as producer, writer, showrunner and director for two decades, Jennifer Holness is no stranger to the tenacity it takes to make a name for yourself as a Black woman in the Canadian...
May 4, 2021 · Known as a producer of award-winning Canadian documentary and narrative films, a showrunner and, more recently, as the cofounder of Canada’s newly minted Black Screen Office, Jennifer Holness is...
