Amanda Strong Explained

Notable Works:Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) (2018), Indigo (2014), Mia' (Salmon) (2015)
Education:Sheridan College
Known For:filmmaker, stop-motion animation

Amanda Strong is a stop-motion animation filmmaker who resides inVancouver, Canada.[1] [2] [3] She has exhibited work and her films have been screened at festivals worldwide, including Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[4] [5] Strong is Red River Metis and a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation. Michif (Métis).

Personal life and education

Strong currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, but grew up in Mississauga, Ontario and has lived in Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec.[6] [7]

Strong studied illustration, media, and photography at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ontario.[8] [9]

Film career

Strong's films tell Indigenous stories through a style she calls "hybrid documentary" as she combines stop-motion animation with new media technology.[10] Strong's style merges genres such as documentary, animation and more traditional narrative driven storytelling. Her background is in photography, illustration, and media.[1] The themes of reclamation of Indigenous histories, lineages, languages and cultures often appear in her works.

Strong is the founder of Spotted Fawn Productions, a production studio that provides mentorship and training opportunities for emerging and diverse artists.[11]

Awards and grants

Strong has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the National Film Board of Canada.[4] In 2009, Strong was the recipient of the ImagineNATIVE/LIFT mentorship.[12] In 2013, Strong was awarded the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Film and Video.[4] In 2015, she was awarded the Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Media Artist.[13] In 2016, she was selected by Alanis Obomsawin to receive $50,000 in services from Technicolor as part of Obomsawin's Clyde Gilmour Technicolor Award at the 2016 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.[14] [15]

The film Mia that Strong co-directed with Bracken Hanuse Corlett won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Aboriginal at the 2016 Yorkton Film Festival.[16] In 2018, she was awarded best script as well as Special Mention for her short film Biidaaban at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[17] Biidaaban is also a nominee for best animated short in the 2019 Canadian Screen Awards[18]

Filmography

YearTitleContribution
2008Alice EatonDirector/Writer/Editor
2009Honey for SaleDirector/Writer/Editor
2014Haida Raid 3: Save Our WatersDirector/Animator/Mentor/Editor
2014IndigoDirector/Co-Writer/Illustrator/VFX
2015MiaDirector/Animator/Producer/VFX
2015How To Steal A CanoeDirector/Producer/Animator
2016Breaking Point Episode X Company CBCDirector/Producer/Animator
2016Hipster HeaddressDirector/Producer/Animator
2016Four Faces of the MoonDirector/Writer/Producer/Animator/Illustrator
2017Ghost FoodProducer
2017FloodDirector/Producer/Animator
2018Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes)Director/Producer/Animator

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: X Company: Artists - Amanda Strong . CBC . 7 March 2016 . 2017-04-04 . en.
  2. News: Amanda Strong - Dispatches - X Company . 2018-11-20 . CBC . en.
  3. Web site: Mississauga director Amanda Strong screening short film 'Biidaaban' at Indigenous film festival ImagineNative . Mississauga.com .
  4. Web site: grunt gallery Spark: Fireside Artist Talks. grunt.ca. en-US. 2017-04-04.
  5. Web site: Amanda Strong (Artists) - Strong Nations. www.strongnations.com. en. 2020-01-22.
  6. Web site: QPIRG's Anti-Colonial Week: a Preview News. thelinknewspaper.ca. en. 2020-01-22.
  7. Web site: Available Light Film Festival develops. 2018-01-16. Yukon News. en-US. 2020-01-22.
  8. Web site: Oxygen Art Centre Artist: Amanda Strong. www.oxygenartcentre.org. en-US. 2017-04-04.
  9. Web site: Arts alumni win prizes for films celebrating Indigenous heritage. Sheridancollege.ca.
  10. Web site: AMANDA STRONG: ANAAMAKAMIG (UNDER THE GROUND). Andrea Jabour. 2019-07-02. Evergreen. en-US. 2020-01-22.
  11. Web site: Stop Motion Animation, Vancouver BC, Spotted Fawn Productions. Stop Motion Animation, Vancouver BC, Spotted Fawn Productions. en. 2018-11-20.
  12. Web site: Amanda Strong : Indigo. Louise. Bigeagle. 2015. e-artexte.ca. en. 2018-03-24.
  13. Web site: 2015 Mayor's Arts Awards recipients announced. Vancouver. City of. 2015-11-04. vancouver.ca. en-US. 2017-04-04.
  14. News: Amanda Strong Selected To Receive The Clyde Gilmour Technicolor Award. CFWE. 2017-04-04. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20170407054917/http://www.cfweradio.ca/on-air/blogs/dustin-mcgladrey-351668/entry/787/. 2017-04-07. dead.
  15. Web site: Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award - Toronto Film Critics Association. Toronto Film Critics Association. 24 August 2017.
  16. News: 3 June 2016. Yorkton Film Festival: The fun. Yorkton This Week. 27 November 2020. YorktonThisWeek-2016.
  17. Web site: 2018 Award Winners. Ottawa International Animation Festival.
  18. Web site: 2019 Canadian Screen Awards: Five Animated Shorts Nominated. Animationmagazine.net.