Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
- Winner: Best Documentary – Ecocinema International Film Festival 2008
- 2007 Genie Award for BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Winner: REEL CURRENT AWARD at the Nashville Film Festival (NaFF)
- Winner: Genie for Best Feature Documentary 2007
- Toronto International Film Festival – One of the Top Ten Films of 2006
- Winner: TIFF Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film 2006
- Winner: Best Canadian Documentary, Atlantic Film Festival 2006
- Winner: Best Canadian Documentary, Calgary Film Festival 2006
- Winner: Best Feature documentary & Best Canadian Film, Toronto Film Critics Association 2006
- Official Selection Sundance Film Festival
- Nominated in the best documentary competition at 2008 film independent spirit awards.
Inspired by conversations with Inuit human rights activist Miqqusaaq, the dramatic short film Throat Song takes place in the icy landscape of Iqaluit, Nunvaut, a small town in the Canadian Arctic. Ippik (Ippiksaut Friesen), a young Inuk woman, is silently suffering from the pains of an abusive relationship. Lost in a community that’s been tragically separated from its past, Ippik, through a job with the Department of Justice, begins to connect with other victims of violence in her community, and seeks to reclaim her voice.
