Nicole Dorsey
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Dorsey at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Nicole Dorsey is a Canadian film director and screenwriter,[1] whose debut feature film, Black Conflux, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]
The film was subsequently named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2019,[3] and received a nomination for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.[4]
A native of Burlington, Ontario, she is a graduate of the film studies program at Ryerson University.[1] She directed a number of short films prior to Black Conflux, including Ivadelle (2009), Pop the Grapes (2013), Dennis (2015), Star Princess (2015) and Arlo Alone (2018).
References[]
- ^ a b Julie Slack, "Burlington native's feature film selected for TIFF". Inside Halton, August 7, 2019.
- ^ Stephen Dalton "'Black Conflux': Film Review | TIFF 2019". The Hollywood Reporter, September 17, 2019.
- ^ Norman Wilner, "TIFF announces Canada's top 10 films of 2019". Now, December 11, 2019.
- ^ "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.
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Categories:
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian women film directors
- Canadian women screenwriters
- Film directors from Ontario
- People from Burlington, Ontario
- Ryerson University alumni
- Writers from Ontario
- Living people
- Canadian film director stubs