Wintopia
Wintopia is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mira Burt-Wintonick and released in 2019.[1] Originally conceived as an attempt to complete Utopia, an unfinished documentary film her father, Peter Wintonick, was working on at the time of his death in 2013, the film instead evolved into a personal essay on her relationship with him.[2]
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| Directed by | Mira Burt-Wintonick |
| Produced by | Annette Clarke Bob Moore |
| Edited by | Anouk Deschênes |
| Music by | David Drury |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The film premiered in November 2019 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.[3] It screened at Canadian and international documentary film festivals in 2020, before being released to digital streaming platforms in 2021.[4]
Awards
The film was the winner of the Colin Low Award for best Canadian documentary at the 2020 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.[5]
It received three Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021, for Best Documentary Film, Best Editing in a Documentary (Anouk Deschênes) and Best Sound in a Documentary (Olivier Germain and Marie-Pierre Grenier).[6]
References
- Janet Smith, "At DOXA, Wintopia captures a daughter’s quest to understand her documentary-filmmaker father". The Georgia Straight, June 10, 2020.
- Alex Rose, "Montreal filmmaker Peter Wintonick is the subject of a very personal new film". Cult MTL, March 26, 2021.
- Marc Glassman, "The POV Interview: Mira Burt-Wintonick on ‘Wintopia’". Point of View, May 23, 2020.
- "Wintopia Now in Digital Release Nationwide". Point of View, April 9, 2021.
- Craig Takeuchi, "DOXA 2020 awards go to films about Filipina domestic workers, father and daughter documentarians, and more". The Georgia Straight, June 30, 2020.
- Éric Moreault, "Prix Iris: La déesse des mouches à feu et Souterrain en tête des nominations". Le Soleil, April 26, 2021.