Director

Loretta Todd

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 1843911

IMDb ID: nm0865223

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2020

Years active: 30

Wikidata: Q20006940

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Consulting Producer (1)Executive Producer (1)Researcher (1)

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Biography

A filmmaker and artist of Cree/Métis and European ancestry, Loretta Todd was one of the first Indigenous women to pursue film studies at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University. Employing a distinctive approach to documentary cinema, she has directed award-winning films such as The Learning Path (1991), Hands of History (1994), Forgotten Warriors (1997) and The People Go On (2003). She has also created video installations for Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and other gallery venues. The recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship and a former participant in the Sundance Institute’s Scriptwriters Lab, Todd has received lifetime achievement awards from imagineNATIVE and the Taos Talking Pictures Festival.

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