Katerina Cizek

Katerina Cizek (born 1969) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and web creator.

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Highrise

As of 2011, Cizek is currently directing the National Film Board of Canada's Highrise series on life in residential skyscrapers, including the 2010 web documentary Out My Window, winner of the inaugural IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and an International Digital Emmy for best digital program: non-fiction,[1][2] and the 2011 webdoc One Millionth Tower, which lets users explore a highrise complex in 3D virtual space, as Toronto residents re-imagine their neighborhood.[3][4]

Filmmaker-in-Residence

Prior to working on Highrise, Cizek directed an NFB crossmedia documentary project about life inside Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. Called Filmmaker-in-Residence, it garnered a Webby Award for Best Documentary Series.[5][6]

Other credits

Prior to joining the NFB, her films included Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News, co-directed with Peter Wintonick.

Research and teaching

Cizek and NFB producer Gerry Flahive are also collaborating on academic research with urbanist Roger Kiel on how cities are changing, with the Global Suburbanisms program at York University.[5] Cizek also teaches new media approaches to documentary creation.[7]

Personal life

Cizek was born in Waterloo, Ontario. The daughter of Czech immigrants, she now lives in the Roncesvalles district in Toronto. Cizek studied anthropology at McGill University in Montreal and worked as an independent filmmaker before joining the National Film Board of Canada, where she works as a filmmaker-in-residence. Her father Jiří Čížek taught quantum physics at the University of Waterloo.[7] He is known for introducing Coupled cluster theory.[8]

References

  1. ^ Brooks, Brian (26 November 2010). "IDFA Opener “Position Among the Stars” Takes Top Festival Prize". Indie Wire. http://www.indiewire.com/article/2010/11/26/idfa_opener_position_among_the_stars_takes_top_festival_prize. Retrieved 29 November 2010. 
  2. ^ "NFB's Highrise web project wins Digital Emmy". CBC News. 4 April 2011. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/04/04/highrise-emmy.html. Retrieved 4 April 2011. 
  3. ^ Watercutter, Angela (5 November 2011). "Premiere: One Millionth Tower High-Rise Documentary Takes Format to New Heights". Wired News. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/one-millionth-tower/. Retrieved 29 November 2011. 
  4. ^ Gee, Marcus (7 December 2011). "Aging apartment towers can be humanized". Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/aging-apartment-towers-can-be-humanized/article2263989/. Retrieved 8 December 2011. 
  5. ^ a b Dixon, Guy (13 January 2011). "NFB doc glimpses into immigrants’ high-rise world". Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/nfb-doc-glimpses-into-immigrants-high-rise-world/article1858843/. Retrieved 17 January 2011. 
  6. ^ Martin, James. "A DIFFERENT KIND OF FILMMAKING". Alumni Profile. McGill University. http://www.mcgill.ca/news/2009/winter/alumnotes/cizek/. Retrieved 17 January 2011. 
  7. ^ a b Scrivener, Leslie (15 October 2010). "Online, a window on the world". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/876179--online-a-window-on-the-world. Retrieved 24 November 2010. 
  8. ^ J. Čížek, On the Correlation Problem in Atomic and Molecular Systems. Calculation of Wavefunction Components in Ursell-Type Expansion Using Quantum-Field Theoretical Methods, The Journal of Chemical Physics 45, 50 (1966)

External links

Websites
Waterlife (2009) • Out My Window (2010) • Holy Mountain (2010) • Welcome to Pine Point (2011) • My Tribe Is My Life (2011) • Bla Bla (2011) • One Millionth Tower (2011)
People
Katerina Cizek • Loc Dao • Tom Perlmutter