Jacquelyn Mills is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her films '' In the Waves'' and ''

Geographies of Solitude ''Geographies of Solitude'' is a Canadian documentary film by Jacquelyn Mills that was released in 2022. The film is guided by Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who lives on Nova Scotia's Sable Island, where she catalogues the island' ...

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Early life

Mills was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Career

In 2008, Mills' short film, ''For Wendy'', won 5 international awards. Mills' first documentary (60') '' In the Waves'' is a personal exploratory film made in collaboration with her grandmother. The film premiered at Visions du Réel in 2017. ''In the Waves'' won the award for Best Documentary and best editing at the 2017

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and was selected as best medium-length documentary at RIDM (

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).. It also won Grand Jury Prize at New Hampshire International Film Festival. The film was a shortlisted nominee for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the

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'', Mills second documentary (103'), premiered at Berlinale Forum in 2022 and centers on environmentalist Zoe Lucas and her life on

Sable Island Sable Island (french: île de Sable, literally "island of sand") is a small Canadian island situated southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and about southeast of the closest point of mainland Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic Ocean. The island ...

. The film won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.Sadaf Ahsan
"Jacquelyn Mills’ ‘Geographies of Solitude’ wins Hot Docs’ best Canadian film award"
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'', May 7, 2022. Mills was also awarded the Earl A. Glick emerging Canadian filmmaker award. The film has won 28 international awards and was nominated for an IDA. In addition to her own films, Mills has also worked as a cinematographer and editor on many internationally acclaimed films.

Personal life

Mills currently lives in

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