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Arts Nova Scotia and the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council congratulate Stephanie Joline who has been selected to receive the 2024 Indigenous Artist Recognition Award.
Stephanie Joline is an award-wining Indigenous filmmaker based in Halifax. Her mother is Inuit from Labrador, her father is French Acadian from the south shore of Nova Scotia. Some of her credits include films Night Blooms (2022), Play Your Gender (2016), and the CBC documentary series Women of This Land (2024) which she created as well as directed and co-produced. In 2022 she won a Canadian Screen Award for best directing in the factual television category. This year, she was chosen to take part in The Warner Brothers Discovery Access x Canadian Academy Directors Program. She is an active member of The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, Women in Film and Television Atlantic, Screen Nova Scotia and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. She also contributes to the community by teaching film classes, mentoring emerging filmmakers and serving as the Directors’ Caucus Representative for DGC Maritimes.
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About the Award
The Indigenous Artist Recognition Award recognizes artists who are Indigenous (Mi’kmaq as well as other First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) who have emerged from their initial training and development and are active in the Nova Scotian/Mi’kma’ki arts community.
The awards help showcase the recipients’ work to residents of the province and to people beyond our borders. This visibility will encourage artistic and economic well-being for the recipients and contribute to the health of Nova Scotia’s artistic sector in support of a well-rounded community. The Artist Recognition Awards are presented annually at the Creative Nova Scotia Awards Gala Funded from the Nova Scotia Arts Endowment Fund, the award carries a cash value of $5,000.
It is an award of recognition and may be used by the recipient for any purpose.
The prize will be presented at the Creative Nova Scotia Awards on November 3, 2024.
