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Gia Milani (born in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian screenwriter and director. She attended the University of New Brunswick, and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, before graduating in 2001 with her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fine Craft. Milani's debut feature film, All the Wrong Reasons, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, where she won the $10,000 Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award. The same year, Milani was named one of Canada's Top film talents to watch by CBC. She is the first woman from New Brunswick to have a feature film screen at TIFF.
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| dbo:abstract | Gia Milani (born in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian screenwriter and director. She attended the University of New Brunswick, and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, before graduating in 2001 with her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fine Craft. Milani's debut feature film, All the Wrong Reasons, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, where she won the 10,000GrolschFilmWorksDiscoveryAward.Thesameyear,MilaniwasnamedoneofCanada′sTopfilmtalentstowatchbyCBC.SheisthefirstwomanfromNewBrunswicktohaveafeaturefilmscreenatTIFF.Inlate2009MilaniwontheScriptAccessibleAwardforherthenunproducedscreenplayAlltheWrongReasons.Shepickeduptheawardatthe2010SlamdanceFilmFestivalMilaniwonthe10,000 Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award. The same year, Milani was named one of Canada's Top film talents to watch by CBC. She is the first woman from New Brunswick to have a feature film screen at TIFF. In late 2009 Milani won the Script Accessible Award for her then unproduced screenplay All the Wrong Reasons. She picked up the award at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival Milani won the 10,000GrolschFilmWorksDiscoveryAward.Thesameyear,MilaniwasnamedoneofCanada′sTopfilmtalentstowatchbyCBC.SheisthefirstwomanfromNewBrunswicktohaveafeaturefilmscreenatTIFF.Inlate2009MilaniwontheScriptAccessibleAwardforherthenunproducedscreenplayAlltheWrongReasons.Shepickeduptheawardatthe2010SlamdanceFilmFestivalMilaniwonthe25,000 CBC Television 3-2-1 Award in 2008 for her short film A Dark Radius, loosely based on human trafficking in New Brunswick. In 2007 Milani directed a music video for the band Hey Rosetta!, for the song The Year You Were Born, though an initiative by the Atlantic Film Festival's 10 x 10 Music Series that paired bands with directors for a 3-day competition. The video went on to win The Most Unique Film at the Silver Wave Film Festival and screened at several festivals including the NSI. Milani's work has played on CBC Television, The Movie Network, HBO Canada and The Movie Channel. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Gia Milani (born in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian screenwriter and director. She attended the University of New Brunswick, and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, before graduating in 2001 with her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fine Craft. Milani's debut feature film, All the Wrong Reasons, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, where she won the $10,000 Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award. The same year, Milani was named one of Canada's Top film talents to watch by CBC. She is the first woman from New Brunswick to have a feature film screen at TIFF. (en) |
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