Irene Lilienheim Angelico (born December 9, 1946) is a Canadian film director, producer and writer.

Early life

Angelico was born in 1946 in Munich. Her parents, survivors of the

Vilna Ghetto The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland. During the approximatel ...

, emigrated to Canada. She received a BA degree from

Sir George Williams University Sir George Williams University was a university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It merged with Loyola College to create Concordia University on August 24, 1974. History In 1851, the first YMCA in North America was established on Sainte-Hélène S ...

, Montreal, in 1974.

Career

In 1980, Angelico and her partner Abbey Neidik, who would become a frequent collaborator, produced and directed the feature documentary, ''Dark Lullabies''. The film explored the effect of the Holocaust on children of survivors and second-generation Germans. The film received the first prize for "The Most Socially/Politically Engaging Film" at Mannheim and the prize for "The Most Memorable Film" in Tokyo. It was included in The Fifty Greatest Documentaries of all Time at the international Salute to the Documentary, and selected to represent the best of the NFB's Studio D at retrospectives in London and France. In the summer of 2013, it was selected as the inaugural feature documentary at the Stratford Festival Forum. The film continues to be screened and broadcast worldwide including special commemorative screening in Berlin and Vilnius. Angelico went on to write and direct 1998's ''The Cola Conquest'', a documentary about Coca-Cola as a metaphor for America. The documentary ''Black Coffee'' explored the history and social impact of coffee. The 2007 film ''Inside the Great Magazines'' was about the first international media. Angelico also produced and wrote many documentaries including the 1992 ''Entre Solitudes'' about the Anglos of Quebec; ''The Love Prophet and the Children of God'' about a sex for salvation cult; ''She Got Game;'' ''Vendetta Song'', about an honour killing in Turkey; ''Canadaville, USA''; about the town Franck Stonach built for Katrina Surviivors and ''Unbreakable Minds'', a film that explores mental illness. Angelico was one of the founding chairs of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus Montreal (CIFC), now known as DOC.

Books

*Angelico co-edited ''The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe'', written by her father, Henry Lilienheim.

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

, the

Australian Centre for the Moving Image ACMI, formerly the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, is Australia's national museum of film, television, videogames, and art. ACMI was established in 2002 and is based at Federation Square in Melbourne, Victoria. During the 2014-15 finan ...

and the

Cinémathèque québécoise The Cinémathèque québécoise is a film conservatory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its purpose is to preserve, document, film and television footage and related documents and artifacts for future use by the public. The Cinémathèque's collectio ...

Filmography

*''...And They Lived Happily Ever After'', 1975 (co-directed with Kathleen Shannon and Anne Henderson) *''Meditation in Motion'' (1979) *''Dark Lullabies'' (1985) *''Entre Solitudes / Between Solitudes'' (1992) *''The Burning Times'' (1990) *''The Cola Conquest; A Trilogy'' (1998) *''The Love Prophet and the Children of God'' (1998) *''She Got Game'', producer (2003) *''Vendetta Song'' (2005) *''Unbreakable Minds'' (2005) *''Black Coffee'' (2007) *''Canadaville, USA'', producer (2008) *''Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women'', producer *''Beyond Earth: the Beginning of NewSpace'', producer (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Angelico, Irene 1949 births Living people Canadian women film producers Canadian women screenwriters Artists from Munich Canadian women film directors