Katerina Cizek - Alanis Obomsawin

Kat Cizek's films have helped launch criminal investigations, changed UN policies, and been screened as evidence at an International Criminal Tribunal. She has also worked in Aboriginal gang territory, investigated a global people-smuggling ring, and directed a series of reports about the battle over water in Central Asia. Recent credits include Seeing Is Believing, about new technologies and human rights (Abraham Prize, Hamptons International Film Festival) and Dead Are Alive: Eyewitness in Rwanda (writer/editor/narrator). Her work has appeared in print, on TV and radio, and online; she is a three-time Gemini nominee and the co-recipient of a 2000 Montreal New Talent Award. Currently, Kat is developing an experimental program for the National Film Board of Canada, Filmmaker-in-Residence, partnering media with medicine to fuel social and political action.