Elizabeth Yake is a Canadian
film producer, who is the founder and president of True West Films.
["Producer Yake goes Green in B.C.". '']The Province
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'', August 27, 2005. She is most noted for the films ''
Everything's Gone Green
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''
[ and '']It's All Gone Pete Tong
''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' is a 2004 British-Canadian mockumentary-drama film about a DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Rad ...
'',["Film producer scripts success story on Saltspring". '']Victoria Times-Colonist
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'', July 3, 2005. the latter of which won the in 2004 and was a Genie Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture at the 26th Genie Awards
The 26th Genie Awards were held on March 13, 2006 to honour films released in 2005. The ceremony was held at The Carlu theatre in Toronto. The ceremony was hosted by Lisa Ray and Terry David Mulligan.
Nominees and winners
The Genie Award winner ...
in 2006.
Education
Yake was educated at the University of Guelph
, mottoeng = "to learn the reasons of realities"
, established = May 8, 1964 ()As constituents: OAC: (1874) Macdonald Institute: (1903) OVC: (1922)
, type = Public university
, chancellor ...
, Ryerson University
Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met) is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, although it also operates facilities elsewhere in Tor ...
and Regent's University London
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Regent's University London was established in 1984 ...
.[ She has also studied at the ]Canadian Film Centre
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is a charitable organization founded by filmmaker Norman Jewison in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1988. Originally launched as film school, today it provides training, development and advancement opportunities for pr ...
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Career
Yake's dramatic films include ''The Feeler'', ''Shoemaker
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.
Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as '' cordwainers''). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen ...
'', '' Desire'', ''Mile Zero'', ''Miss Texas'', ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' and ''Everything's Gone Green''. Her documentaries include '' Hadwin's Judgement'', '' Jeff Wall: In Order to Make a Picture'', '' bp: pushing the boundaries'', ''The Dragon's Egg'', ''Mémoire Moire des souvenirs'' and ''Out of the Woods.
She was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award
The Donald Brittain Award is a Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to honour the year's best television documentary on a social or political topic. Formerly presented as part of the Gemini Awards, ...
in 1999 for ''The Dragon's Egg''.
In 2005 she won the Leo Award
The Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry. Held each May or June in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Leo Awards were founded by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British C ...
, Best Feature Length Drama for ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' and again in 2007 for ''Everything's Gone Green''.
''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' was voted by '' Playback'' one of the ten best films of the 2000s, was nominated for Best Achievement in Production Award at the British Independent Film Awards
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) is an organisation that celebrates, supports and promotes British independent cinema and filmmaking talent in United Kingdom. Nominations for the annual awards ceremony are announced in early November, ...
, Best Actor and Best Feature at the HBO US Comedy Festival (Aspen), winner of the Audience Award and Best Feature Award at the Gen Arts Film Festival in New York.
Awards & nominations
* 2016, Nominated for Canadian Screen Award
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for Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary for '' Hadwin's JudgementSpotlight Awards
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References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian documentary film producers
Canadian women film producers
University of Guelph alumni
Toronto Metropolitan University alumni
Canadian Film Centre alumni
Canadian women documentary filmmakers
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