Maureen Judge
Maureen Judge is a Canadian filmmaker and television producer. Most of her work is documentary and explores themes of love, betrayal and acceptance in the context of the modern family.
Biography
Judge was born in Montreal, Quebec and is one of eight children. As a child, she lived in Montreal, Quebec; Kingston, Ontario; and Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Toronto in 1967.
She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from The University of Toronto in Science and Philosophy. In 1982 she earned a Master of Arts Degree in Cinema Studies from New York University. Judge now lives in Toronto with her husband and their two children.
Judge has directed and produced a number of documentary films, television series and a few shorts. Her best known film, Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship was the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Genie Award in 1998 for Best Short Documentary.[1] She also directed And We Knew How To Dance: Women and World War I, which was produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and In My Parents' Basement.
She began television series producing in 2002 when she created and produced the 13 episode series, Family Secrets. Judge then went on to create and produce the series Heart of a Poet in 2006.
More recently, Judge produced the documentary film FLicKeR which won the Special Jury Prize for a Canadian Feature Length Documentary at Hot Docs in 2008. It then went on to win in the category of Best Film on International Art at the 2009 Era New Horizons Film Festival in Poland,[2] and was nominated for a 2009 Gemini Award.[3] Her following film Mom's Home (2010) was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social-Political Documentary at the Gemini Awards.
Judge was a founding member of CineAction Magazine in 1986, contributing an article on the film Death Watch to its first issue, and has taught film studies and production at York University, Humber College and Sheridan College in Toronto.
Filmography
Selected films:[4]
- Family Business (dramatic short), writer/director, 1984
- A Venerable Occasion (dramatic short), writer/director, 1986
- Altered Ego (comedy/drama featurette), writer, director, 1991
- And We Knew How to Dance: Women and WWI (documentary) director, 1994
- Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship (documentary) director, 1997
- In My Parents' Basement (documentary), director, 2002
- FLicKeR (documentary), producer, 2008
- Mom's Home: The August Years of May and Gloria (documentary), producer/director, 2010
- Living Dolls: The Subculture of Doll Collecting (documentary), producer/director, 2013
Selected television:[5]
- Family Secrets (documentary series) creator/producer, 2003
- "Blowing Out the Candles" (Family Secrets episode), producer/director, 2003
- "Best Laid Plans" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2003
- "Introducing Debbie" (Family Secrets episode), producer/director, 2003
- "Loss and Found" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2003
- "Love Behind Bars" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2003
- "Second Helping" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2003
- "Birth Mothers Never Forget" (Family Secrets episode), producer/director, 2004
- "Erase the Day" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2004
- "Looking for 7s" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2004
- "From Mild to Completely Severe" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2004
- "Beyond Baby Blues" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2004
- "Almost Normal" (Family Secrets episode), producer, 2004
- "When Nobody's Looking" (Family Secrets episode), producer/director, 2004
- Heart of a Poet I & II (docu/performance series), co-creator/executive producer, 2006
- bill bissett (Heart of a Poet I episode), writer/director, 2006
- Christian Bök (Heart of a Poet I episode), writer/director, 2006
- Marty Gervais (Heart of a Poet I episode), writer/director, 2006
- Seth-Adrian Harris (Heart of a Poet I episode), writer/director, 2006
- Lillian Allen (Heart of a Poet II episode), writer/director, 2006
- Adeena Karasick (Heart of a Poet II episode), writer/director, 2006
- Shane Koyczan (Heart of a Poet II episode), writer/director, 2006
- Jill Battson (Heart of a Poet I episode), writer/director, 2006
- Daphne Marlatt (Heart of a Poet II episode), writer/director, 2006
Awards
- And We Knew How to Dance
- Chris Award: Social Issues, Columbus International Film & Video Festival (1994)
- Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship
- Genie Award: Best Short documentary, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (1997)
- Gold Award: Social/Political Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival Intercom (1997)
- Finalist Award: Documentary, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (1998)
- Honorable mention: Social Issues, Columbus International Film & Video Festival (1997)
- Hot Docs Award Nomination: Social/Political Documentary (1998)
- In My Parents’ Basement
- Silver Award: Documentary, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (2002)
- Family Secrets
- Gold Award: Documentary Series, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (2004)
- Honorable Mention: Documentary Film, Family Secrets: When Nobody’s Looking, Columbus International Film & Video Festival (2003)
- FLicKeR
- Special Jury Prize: Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs (2008)
- Best Film on International Art: Era New Horizons Film Festival (2009)
- Nominated: Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series, Gemini Award (2009)
- Mom's Home
- Nominated: Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program Gemini Award (2011)
- Nominated: Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series Gemini Award (2011)
References
External links
National Film Board of Canada: *And We Knew How to Dance
National Film Board of Canada: *Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship
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