Daniel Roher () is a Canadian documentary film director from
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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. He is most noted for his 2019 film ''
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band'', which was the opening film of the
2019 Toronto International Film Festival
The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band'', directed by Daniel Roher, and the festival closed with a ...
.
Roher grew up in midtown Toronto, Canada in a
Jewish
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family. After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts, he studied for three semesters at the
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private nonprofit art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France.
Founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the Unit ...
in Georgia, USA.
His 2019 film ''
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band'' was also screened at the 2019
Whistler Film Festival The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) is an annual film festival held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 2001, the festival is held the first weekend of December and includes juried competitive sections, the Borsos Awards, and the Pand ...
, where it was the winner of the
Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award The Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award is an annual juried award, given by the Whistler Film Festival to the film selected as the year's best documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture inten ...
. Roher and
Eamonn O'Connor were
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) p ...
nominees for
Best Editing in a Documentary at the
8th Canadian Screen Awards
The 8th annual Canadian Screen Awards were originally scheduled to be held on March 29, 2020, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2019.[Canadian Cinema Editors
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2011 C.C.E. Award Winners
2012 C.C.E. Award Win ...]
award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020.
Roher previously directed the short documentaries ''
Survivors Rowe'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Program at the
5th Canadian Screen Awards
The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017.
Awards in many of the technical categor ...
in 2017, and ''Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series at the
6th Canadian Screen Awards
The 6th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 11, 2018, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2017. in 2018.
Released in 2022, his latest film ''
Navalny
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny ( rus, links=no, Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, , ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption act ...
'' won
Best Documentary Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
References
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1993 births
Canadian documentary film directors
Canadian film editors
Film directors from Toronto
Jewish Canadian filmmakers
Living people
Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
Savannah College of Art and Design alumni
20th-century Canadian Jews
21st-century Canadian Jews
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