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| known_for = ''[[My Prairie Home (film)|My Prairie Home]]'' |
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'''Chelsea McMullan''' is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her 2013 film ''[[My Prairie Home (film)|My Prairie Home]]'', a film about [[transgender]] musician [[Rae Spoon]].<ref name=filmmaker>[http://filmmakermagazine.com/83727-interview-with-my-prairie-home-director-chelsea-mcmullan/#.UtzClfso4dU "Interview with My Prairie Home Director Chelsea McMullan"]. ''[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker]]'', January 19, 2014.</ref> |
'''Chelsea McMullan''' is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her 2013 film ''[[My Prairie Home (film)|My Prairie Home]]'', a film about [[transgender]] musician [[Rae Spoon]].<ref name=filmmaker>[http://filmmakermagazine.com/83727-interview-with-my-prairie-home-director-chelsea-mcmullan/#.UtzClfso4dU "Interview with My Prairie Home Director Chelsea McMullan"]. ''[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker]]'', January 19, 2014.</ref> |
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== Early life == |
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McMullan grew up in [[Langley, British Columbia (city)|Langley, British Columbia]] as an avid basketball player. She received a basketball scholarship to play at [[Brookswood Secondary School]] and was scouted to play at the university level in Canada, but eventually decided to pursue her interest in film.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jacobs|first=Jonas|date=2016-05-07|title=POV Profile: Chelsea McMullan – Point of View Magazine|url=http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/pov-profile-chelsea-mcmullan|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-08|website=POV Magazine|language=en}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Revision as of 18:39, 8 April 2021
Chelsea McMullan is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her 2013 film My Prairie Home, a film about transgender musician Rae Spoon.[1]
Early life
McMullan grew up in Langley, British Columbia as an avid basketball player. She received a basketball scholarship to play at Brookswood Secondary School and was scouted to play at the university level in Canada, but eventually decided to pursue her interest in film.[2]
Career
Early work
Her early film credits include the documentary films Derailments (Deragliamenti) and The Way Must Be Tried, and the short films Plume and Bath Time. McMullan has worked on several projects with the National Film Board of Canada.[3] In addition to My Prairie Home, her prior films Mise en Scène and Deadman were made for the NFB; she first met Spoon when she wanted to secure rights to one of Spoon's songs as background music for Deadman.[4]
My Prairie Home
My Prairie Home competed in the World Cinema Documentary program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival,[3] and was shortlisted for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.[5]
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum
McMullan's 2015 film World Famous Gopher Hole Museum was shortlisted for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.[6]
Recent work
Her forthcoming projects include a documentary film, Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John, and a narrative feature film, Swan Killer.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Interview with My Prairie Home Director Chelsea McMullan". Filmmaker, January 19, 2014.
- ^ Jacobs, Jonas (2016-05-07). "POV Profile: Chelsea McMullan – Point of View Magazine". POV Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Chelsea McMullan doc to compete at Sundance". Playback, December 4, 2013.
- ^ "Chelsea McMullan bends genre, gender in musical-documentary about Rae Spoon". canada.com, September 30, 2013.
- ^ "Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated". CBC News, January 13, 2014.
- ^ "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
External links
- Chelsea McMullan at IMDb
- Mise en Scène at NFB.ca
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