Maureen Judge

Maureen Judge is a Canadian filmmaker and television producer. Most of her work is documentary and explores themes of love, betrayal and acceptance in the context of the modern family.

Biography

Judge was born in Montreal, Quebec and is one of eight children. As a child, she lived in Montreal, Quebec; Kingston, Ontario; and Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Toronto in 1967.

She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from The University of Toronto in Science and Philosophy. In 1982 she earned a Master of Arts Degree in Cinema Studies from New York University. Judge now lives in Toronto with her husband and their two children.

Judge has directed and produced a number of documentary films, television series and a few shorts. Her best known film, Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship was the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Genie Award in 1998 for Best Short Documentary.[1] She also directed And We Knew How To Dance: Women and World War I, which was produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and In My Parents' Basement.

She began television series producing in 2002 when she created and produced the 13 episode series, Family Secrets. Judge then went on to create and produce the series Heart of a Poet in 2006.

More recently, Judge produced the documentary film FLicKeR which won the Special Jury Prize for a Canadian Feature Length Documentary at Hot Docs in 2008. It then went on to win in the category of Best Film on International Art at the 2009 Era New Horizons Film Festival in Poland,[2] and was nominated for a 2009 Gemini Award.[3] Her following film Mom's Home (2010) was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social-Political Documentary at the Gemini Awards.

Judge was a founding member of CineAction Magazine in 1986, contributing an article on the film Death Watch to its first issue, and has taught film studies and production at York University, Humber College and Sheridan College in Toronto.

Filmography

Selected films:[4]

Selected television:[5]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Awards Database".
  2. ↑ "Era New Horizons Film Festival 2009 competition results".
  3. ↑ "Nominees by Category, the 24th Annual Gemini Awards".
  4. ↑ "IMDB: Maureen Judge".
  5. ↑ "IMDB: Maureen Judge".

External links

National Film Board of Canada: *And We Knew How to Dance
National Film Board of Canada: *Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship

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