Andrew Moir (filmmaker) explained
Andrew Moir is a Canadian documentary filmmaker.[1] He is most noted for his 2019 film Take Me to Prom, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary Film at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.[2] He was previously nominated two other times in the same category, for the films Just As I Remember at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014,[3] and Babe, I Hate to Go at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.[4]
Just As I Remember also won the Toronto Film Critics Association's Manulife Award for Best Student Film at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012.[5]
His full-length feature debut Don't Come Searching, an expansion of Babe, I Hate to Go, was released in 2022.[6]
Originally from London, Ontario,[7] he is a film studies graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University.[5]
Notes and References
- Barry Hertz, "The golden age of documentary? The truth is not so simple". The Globe and Mail, April 20, 2019.
- Brent Furdyk, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Non-Fiction Winners Revealed". ET Canada, May 25, 2020.
- Manori Ravindran, “Watermark,” “My Prairie Home” up for Canadian Screen Awards. RealScreen, January 13, 2014.
- Jordan Pinto, "CSAs ’18: Never Steady Never Still, Ava top CSA film noms". Playback, January 16, 2018.
- Chris Knight, "Sarah Polley awarded $100K Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from TFCA for Stories We Tell". National Post, January 8, 2013.
- Pat Mullen, "Don’t Come Searching and the Art of Letting Go". Point of View, May 2, 2022.
- Gary Ennett, "London filmmaker documents the life and death of a migrant worker in Southwestern Ontario". CBC News London, July 19, 2017.
