Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD) is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year! To commemorate this exciting milestone, on September 20, 2024, at 7:30 PM, there will be a 60th Anniversary Season Launch, where Manitoba Filmmaker Danielle Sturk will join to share a few words and introduce the screening of “A Good Madness: The Dance of Rachel Brown.”
Tickets are $20.00 and are available now to purchase!
About Danielle Sturk
Danielle Sturk is a Franco Manitoban storyteller who began working in film and television in 2004 after graduating from the University of Winnipeg with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Theatre. Since that time, Sturk has established herself as a committed and passionate storyteller in both English and French.
Audiences will know her best for her hybrid documentary El Toro (2018) where she skillfully mixed live-action, miniatures and animation to create a surreal and nostalgic story of family and memory. The film was recognized with a 2020 nomination from the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) for their Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film. It also garnered a spot on the 2019 Hot Doc Film Festival Top 5 Audience Pick list (for medium-length films) and on Gimli Film Festival’s Top 3 Audience Pick list, and was awarded two Golden Sheaf Awards at the 2019 Yorkton Film Festival for Best Director Non-Fiction and Best Experimental Film.
Sturk recently adapted the film into a six-part drama series, which she wrote and directed and acted as associate-producer. The original series, produced by Manito Média was broadcast on Radio Canada’s prime time network, ART TV and can be streamed on ICI TOU.TV. Sturk received a nomination for a DGC Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television or Mini-series in 2023.
Sturk has also recently directed episodes of the series Padre for UNIS TV (2022) and Edgar for Crave and Bell Super Channel (2021) for which she was nominated for the DGC Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series.
Her new documentary Why? Sexual Violence and Teens (National Film Board of Canada) was released in the Spring of 2023.
FTM is a member of the Province of Manitoba’s sector council program funded through the Department of Economic Development and Training. FTM builds a highly skilled and adaptable film industry workforce to support the activities of Manitoba production companies. FTM collaborates and partners with members of the film and television industry to identify training needs to support workforce development output.