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Dana Inkster is an Alberta-based Canadian media artist and filmmaker.[1]

Dana Inkster
Born	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Known for	Film

Biography

Inkster grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. She focused on political studies during her undergraduate education at Queen's University,[1][2] and has a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies from Concordia University.[3] She currently lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta[4] where she lives with her partner and their son.[5]

Artistic career

Inkster's work often experiments with narrative while exploring the complexities of identify, which stem in part, from her experiences as a black, queer, feminist.[1] Her first film, Welcome to Africville, was released in 1999.[3] In 2008 her film 24 Days in Brooks, which documents a 2005 labour strike at Lakeside Packers,[6] won an Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award for best production reflecting cultural diversity.[5] The film examines the lives of recent immigrant workers drawn to Brooks by numerous entry-level, unskilled labour jobs.[7]

Inkster has directed a television ad in a Canadian Race Relations Foundation anti-racism campaign.[8]

She has won the best Canadian female film director prize from the Toronto Images Film Festival. The Art of Autobiography was awarded Best Short or Medium-length Documentary by the Association of Quebec Cinema Critics.[2]

Filmography

• Welcome to Africville (1999)[5]
• The Art of Autobiography: Redux I (2001)[5]
• 24 Days in Brooks (2007)[9]
• The Writer's Room (in development)

References

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