Dana Inkster

Dana Inkster is an Alberta-based Canadian media artist and filmmaker.[1]

Dana Inkster
Born
Ottawa, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Known forFilm

Biography

Inkster grew up in Ottawa, Ontario and focused on political studies during her undergraduate education at Queen's University,[1][2] and has a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies from Concordia University.[3] She currently lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta[4] where she lives with her partner and their son.[5]

Artistic career

Inkster's work often experiments with narrative while exploring the complexities of identify, which stem in part, from her experiences as a black, queer, feminist.[1] Her first film, Welcome to Africville, was released in 1999.[3] In 2008 her film 24 Days in Brooks, which documents a 2005 labour strike at Lakeside Packers,[6] won an Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award for best production reflecting cultural diversity.[5] The film examines the lives of recent immigrant workers drawn to Brooks by numerous entry-level, unskilled labour jobs.[7]

Inkster has directed a television ad in a Canadian Race Relations Foundation anti-racism campaign.[8]

She has won the best Canadian female film director prize from the Toronto Images Film Festival. The Art of Autobiography was awarded Best Short or Medium-length Documentary by the Association of Quebec Cinema Critics.[2]

Filmography
  • Welcome to Africville (1999)[5]
  • The Art of Autobiography: Redux I (2001)[5]
  • 24 Days in Brooks (2007)[9]

References
  1. McLeod, Dayna (2009). "Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster". nomorepotlucks.org. No More Potlucks. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. "The activists: Into the fire. no grumbling from the sidelines with this group, they are doers who jump in with both feet. look among their ranks for the leaders of tomorrow series: 100 to watch". Maclean's. ProQuest 218540358.
  3. Anthem / Hymne: Perspectives on Home and Native Land. ABC Art Books Canada Distribution. ISBN 0770905196.
  4. "Walter Phillips Gallery to host exhibition on nationhood and identity". www.banffcentre.ca/. Banff Centre. February 11, 2008. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  5. Bhogal, Preet (May 7, 2008). "Filmmaker Dana Inkster". dailyxtra.com/. Xtra!. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  6. Kenney, Trevor (October 29, 2009). "Rethinking stereotypes". University of Lethbridge. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  7. Ciccone, Carla (September 27, 2007). "Immigration influx". www.ffwdweekly.com/. Fast Forward Weekley. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  8. "Canadian Race Relations Foundation announces launch of national anti- racism campaign". Canada NewsWire. 21 Oct 1999. ProQuest 455080550.
  9. "24 Days in Brooks". National Film Board. Retrieved March 8, 2015.


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