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词条 Jennifer Holness
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  1. Biography

  2. Career

  3. Awards and nominations[2]

  4. Filmography[5]

  5. References

  6. External links

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Jennifer Holness is a Canadian film and television producer and screenwriter, who is the business partner of Sudz Sutherland, also her husband, in Hungry Eyes Film & Television.[1] Her production and writing credits include the film Love, Sex and Eating the Bones and the television series Guns, She's the Mayor[1] and Shoot the Messenger.

Holness also directed the documentary film Speakers for the Dead, and produced Catherine Annau's documentary film Brick by Brick

Biography

Jennifer Holness was born in 1969 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She moved to Toronto, Canada, at a young age with her mother.[2] She attended York University, where she studied political science. This is also where she met her husband David "Sudz" Sutherland. The two were married after finishing their degrees at York University and have three daughters.

Career

Holness has mentioned that growing up in a housing project helped shape her view of the city and how she crafts her work. The aim of her work has been a steady understanding of the stories that most people do not want to direct; touching subjects about gun violence, homophobia and deportation of immigrants in the city of Toronto.[2] Holness' professional career started with a documentary in which she co-directed, Speakers for the Dead (2000) with her husband, Sutherland. Following the success from Love, Sex And Eating the Bones, Holness produced and co-wrote a miniseries for CBC titled Guns (2009). She then went on to produce a documentary, Badge of Pride (2010), which looked at the struggles that gay police officers faced in the force. Holness went on to produce and co-write another feature film titled Home Again (2012), in which follows Jamaican deportees from Canada. Holness mentions that she obtained the inspiration for this film from a classmate in high school who was deported back to Jamaica- and killed in a shooting. It was in an attempt to challenge the bill C-43 which stated that immigrants with criminal records could be deported back to native countries.[3] Her largest work to date with husband David Sutherland with a production value of over 4 million.[4]

She is currently producing and co-writing a TV crime drama, Shoot the Messenger (2016), a drama that follows a journalist who gets tied up with various third-parties (such as gangs and politicians) while she uncovers her first murder case. The idea is loosely based on the controversies of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford.[3]

Awards and nominations[2]

YearAwards and Nominations
2000Best Documentary Film (Speakers for the Dead), Black Film and Video Network's Reel Black Award

HBO Award for Best Short Film (My Father’s Hands), Acapulco International Black Film Festival

Best Drama (My Father’s Hands), Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award

Best Director (My Father’s Hands), Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award

2001Prix Chantal Lapaire (Speakers for the Dead), Vues D’Afrique Film Festival
2003Best Canadian First Feature Film (Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones), Toronto International Film Festival
2004Audience Award, Best Feature Film (Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones), American Black Film Festival

Best Feature (Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones), Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival

Audience Award (Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones), Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival

Best Canadian Feature (Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones), Victoria Independent Film + Video Festival

2010Best Writing (Guns), Canadian Gemini Award
2011Excellence in Media – Video (Brick by Brick: The Story of the Evergreen Brickworks), Heritage Toronto Awards

Filmography[5]

YearFilm
1998Win/Loss/Tie
1998I'm a Big Girl
1999Roadkill Travelogue
1999Vicious Cycles
1999My Father's Hands
2001Bagatelle
2002Yin yin/Jade Love
2003Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
2008Guns
2010Badge of Pride
2011She's The Mayor
2011Brick by Brick
2012Home Again

References

1. ^"At Home with Jennifer Holness & Sudz Sutherland". Sway, 2011-04-08.
2. ^{{Cite web| url = http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jennifer-holness/#h3_jump_1| title = Jennifer Holness| last = Mullen| first = Patrick| website = The Canadian Encyclopedia| access-date = 2016-02-29}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jennifer-holness/#h3_jump_1|title=Jennifer Holness|last=Mullen|first=Patrick|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date=2016-03-04}}
4. ^{{Cite news| url = https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2012/09/06/tiff_2012_sudz_sutherland_and_jennifer_holness_race_to_finish_their_film.html| title = Husband and wife Canadian movie makers, Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness, race to finish their film, Home Again, in time for TIFF| last = Crawford| first = Trish| date = 2012-09-06| newspaper = The Toronto Star| issn = 0319-0781| access-date = 2016-02-29}}
5. ^{{Cite web| url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392227/| title = Jennifer Holness| website = IMDb| access-date = 2016-02-29}}

External links

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