''Wintopia'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by
Mira Burt-Wintonick and released in 2019. Originally conceived as an attempt to complete ''Utopia'', an unfinished documentary film her father,
Peter Wintonick
Peter Kenneth Wintonick (June 10, 1953 – November 18, 2013) was a Canadian independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence for the Premier ...
, was working on at the time of his death in 2013, the film instead evolved into a personal essay on her relationship with him.
The film premiered in November 2019 at the
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic ...
. It screened at Canadian and international documentary film festivals in 2020, before being released to digital streaming platforms in 2021.
The film received three
Prix Iris
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.[23rd Quebec Cinema Awards
The 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards were held on June 6, 2021, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2020. A live gala was hosted by actress Geneviève Schmidt; due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, however, it was staged differently than ...]
in 2021, for
Best Documentary Film,
Best Editing in a Documentary (
Anouk Deschênes Anouk is a Dutch female given name and diminutive of Anna.
People
* Anouk, or Anouk Teeuwe, (born 1975), Dutch singer-songwriter
* Anouk Aimée (b. 1932 as Françoise Sorya Dreyfus), pseudonym of a French film actress
* Anouk Hoogendijk (b. 1985), ...
) and
Best Sound in a Documentary (
Olivier Germain and
Marie-Pierre Grenier).
[Éric Moreault]
"Prix Iris: La déesse des mouches à feu et Souterrain en tête des nominations"
''Le Soleil
Le Soleil ("The Sun") is the name of several newspapers:
* ''Le Soleil'' (Quebec), a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, founded in 1896
* ''Le Soleil'' (French newspaper), a defunct daily newspaper based in Paris fro ...
'', April 26, 2021.
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2019 films
2019 documentary films
Canadian documentary films
EyeSteelFilm films
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films
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