Kathleen Jayme is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from

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. She is most noted for the films '' Finding Big Country'' and ''

The Grizzlie Truth ''The Grizzlie Truth'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kathleen Jayme and released in 2022. Following up on Jayme's 2018 film '' Finding Big Country'', the film traces the history of the ill-fated Vancouver Grizzlies of the National ...

'', which examine the history of the ill-fated

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of the

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Career

''Finding Big Country'', which documented Jayme's attempts to trace the whereabouts of former Grizzlies player Bryant "Big Country" Reeves several years after his 2001 retirement from basketball, premiered at the

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'', September 9, 2022. where it was the winner of the Audience Award for most popular film in the Galas & Special Presentations program. Jayme also created ''Born Identities'', a short documentary film about the creation of the Grizzlies and

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logos, which screened at the

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as part of the '' NBA Films for Fans'' project. She received a

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nomination for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series at the

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in 2022 for "Invasion of the Murder Hornets", an episode of the documentary web series ''

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''. Her latest documentary, '' I'm Just Here for the Riot'', examining the

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, was produced for

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's ''

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'' in collaboration with

Asia Youngman Asia Youngman is a Cree- Métis filmmaker from Canada. In 2017 she released her debut short documentary film ''Lelum, which won the award for Best Documentary Short at the 2017 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. In 2018, she was one of ...

, and premiered at the 2023

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jayme, Kathleen Canadian documentary film directors Canadian women film directors Film directors from Vancouver Living people Canadian people of Filipino descent Asian-Canadian filmmakers Canadian women documentary filmmakers 1988 births