Katerina Cizek

Katerian Cizek is a documentary-maker working across many media platforms : linear films, radio, print, television, emerging new media and live presentations.

Her work has documented the Digital Revolution, and has itself become part of the movement.

She created and realized the acclaimed NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence program, winner of a Webby Award ("The Oscars of the internet", according to The New York Times), a Banff Rocky Award, a Canadian New Media Award, among other awards and nominations, including the prestigious U.K. Grierson : Sheffield Award for Innovation in Documentary.

Her films have instigated criminal investigations, changed U N policies, and have screened as evidence at an International Criminal Tribunal.

Cizek's films include the Hampton-Prize winner Seeing is Believing : Handicams, Human Right and the News (co-directed with Peter Wintonick), and (as co-writer, editor and narrator) The Dead are Alive : Eyewitness in Rwanda, the first long-form television documentary to examine the tragic events of 1994. Cizek's approach to her pratice is hands-on : she writes, directs, shoots, edits, and designs.

She has travelled the world with her films, teaching and lecturing about her innovative approach to the documentary genre.

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