Jacquelyn Mills
Jacquelyn Mills is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her films In the Waves and Geographies of Solitude.
Early life
Mills was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia.[1]
Career
In 2008, Mills' short film, For Wendy, won best sound design at the Atlantic Film Festival.[2]
Mills' first feature-length documenatry In the Waves, which was about her grandmother, premiered at Visions du Réel in 2017.[3] The film marked a shift in Mills' work awat from fiction and towards documentary.[4] In the Waves won the award for Best Documentary at the 2017 Atlantic Film Festival[5] and was selected as best medium-length documentary at RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Festival).[3] The film was also a shortlisted nominee for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017.
Geographies of Solitude, Mills second feature-length film, premiered in 2022 and centred on environmentalist Zoe Lucas and her life on Sable Island.[6] The film won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[7] Mills was also awarded the Earl A. Glick emerging Canadian filmmaker award.[6]
In addition to her own films, Mills has also worked as a cinematographer and editor on films by her brother Brad Mills, most notably The Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger.[8]
Personal life
Mills currently lives in Montreal.[9]
References
- ^ Elizabeth Patterson, "Cape Bretoner's film gets Sundance funding". SaltWire Network, January 13, 2020.
- ^ "Falardeau's It's Not Me wins 2 awards at Atlantic Film Festival". CBC. 2008-09-18. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ^ a b Durnford, Megan (2022-04-28). "Jacquelyn Mills on the Sounds and Textures of Sable Island". POV Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ^ Thorne, Tara (2018-06-07). "In The Wave's deep dive". The Coast Halifax. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ^ "Black Cop top Atlantic feature at film festival". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 23, 2017.
- ^ a b Ahsan, Sadaf (2022-05-08). "Jacquelyn Mills' 'Geographies of Solitude' wins Hot Docs' best Canadian film award". CTVNews. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ^ Sadaf Ahsan, "Jacquelyn Mills’ ‘Geographies of Solitude’ wins Hot Docs’ best Canadian film award". Toronto Star, May 7, 2022.
- ^ Chris Hayes, "Cape Bretoner joins Film Nova Scotia board". SaltWire Network, September 7, 2011.
- ^ Hogeveen, Esmé (2022-09-01). "Jacquelyn Mills's Geographies of Solitude". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
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