Canadian documentary film director
Daniel Roher ()[ 1] is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto , Ontario .[ 2] He is most noted for his 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band , which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival ,[ 3] and his 2022 film Navalny , about the Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and political prisoner, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards .[ 4] [ 5]
Early life
Roher grew up in midtown Toronto, in a Jewish family. After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts , he studied for three semesters at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA.[ 6]
Career
His 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band was also screened at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival , where it was the winner of the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award .[ 7] Roher and Eamonn O'Connor were Canadian Screen Award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Canadian Cinema Editors award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020.[ 8]
Roher previously directed the short documentaries Survivors Rowe ,[ 9] which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017,[ 10] and Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal , which was a CSA nominee for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.
In October 2024, it was announced that Roher was entering production on Tuner , his first narrative fiction film.[ 11]
References
^ "Meet the Artist: Daniel Roher on "Navalny" " . Sundance Institute. January 26, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022 .
^ Peter Howell, "'Five fragile young men': How Daniel Roher went from young fan of the Band to putting their story on film" . Toronto Star , September 5, 2019.
^ "TIFF 2019 to open with documentary about Canadian rock legend Robbie Robertson" . Toronto Star , July 18, 2019.
^ "CNN FILMS And HBO MAX Announce Revealing Alexey Navalny Documentary Thriller NAVALNY By Director Daniel Roher" . Archived from the original on January 13, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-16 .
^ "CNN Films, HBO Max Partner for Navalny Documentary" . The Moscow Times . 2022-01-14. Retrieved 2022-01-16 .
^ Sarner, Robert. "26-year-old Jewish-Canadian director to launch Toronto Film Festival" . www.timesofisrael.com . Retrieved 2023-03-13 .
^ Alyssa Noel, "Whistler Film Festival hands out awards" . Pique Newsmagazine , December 14, 2019.
^ Lauren Malyk, "Canadian Cinema Editors name 2020 nominees" . Playback , April 8, 2020.
^ "From despair to redemption: The remarkable survivors" . CBC Indigenous, March 2, 2015.
^ "2017 Canadian Screen Awards nominees revealed" . Global News , January 17, 2017.
^ Nicholas Sokic, "Daniel Roher rolling on first narrative feature Tuner" . Playback , October 11, 2024.
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