Andrew Moir (filmmaker)

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 Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).[5]

References
  1. Barry Hertz, "The golden age of documentary? The truth is not so simple". The Globe and Mail, April 20, 2019.
  2. Brent Furdyk, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Non-Fiction Winners Revealed". ET Canada, May 25, 2020.
  3. Manori Ravindran, “Watermark,” “My Prairie Home” up for Canadian Screen Awards. RealScreen, January 13, 2014.
  4. Jordan Pinto, "CSAs ’18: Never Steady Never Still, Ava top CSA film noms". Playback, January 16, 2018.
  5. Chris Knight, "Sarah Polley awarded $100K Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from TFCA for Stories We Tell". National Post, January 8, 2013.
  6. Pat Mullen, "Don’t Come Searching and the Art of Letting Go". Point of View, May 2, 2022.
  7. Gary Ennett, "London filmmaker documents the life and death of a migrant worker in Southwestern Ontario". CBC News London, July 19, 2017.


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