UBC Journalism alumni, Jodie Martinson (’10), has won a Leo Award (BC Film and Television) for a CBC documentary.
Her short TV documentary, Cue the Muse, took the award for Best Short Documentary. It was also nominated in two other categories; Best Direction in documentary, and Best Picture Editing in a Documentary.
Cue the Muse, which Martinson co-produced with Greg Masuda, Clayton Goodfellow and Sheila Peacock, takes the audience on a journey to rediscover the uninhibited creativity she experienced as a child.
Martinson follows painter and AIDS activist Tiko Kerr, ballet dancer Alexis Fletcher, luthier Nicole Alosinac, and rock vocalist Colleen Rennison, to highlight what it really takes to live life creatively and proposer.
Martinson’s animated short, Stronghearted, was also nominated for a Leo in the Best Animation Program or Series category. Written and directed by Martinson, Stronghearted (National Film Board of Canada) tells the story of the pivotal moment in Evelyn Amony’s life – when she came face-to-face with Joseph Kony.
Amony was kidnapped by Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army when she was just 12 years old and went onto become one of Kony’s wives and mother to three of his children. She eventually escaped and believes she survived to tell her story.
The Leo Awards were founded by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British Columbia in 1999. They are awarded annually by the British Columbia film and television industry for the categories of animated, adult dramatic, children’s, documentary film, documentary television, feature films, short films, among others.
