Daniel_Roher

Daniel Roher

Daniel Roher

Canadian documentary film director

Daniel Roher (/rɔːr/)[1] is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario.[2] He is most noted for his 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and his 2022 film Navalny, about the Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and political prisoner, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[4][5]

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Early life

Roher grew up in midtown Toronto, in a Jewish family. After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts, he studied for three semesters at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA.[6]

Career

His 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band was also screened at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award.[7] Roher and Eamonn O'Connor were Canadian Screen Award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Canadian Cinema Editors award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020.[8]

Roher previously directed the short documentaries Survivors Rowe,[9] which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017,[10] and Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal, which was a CSA nominee for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.

References

  1. [1]
    "Meet the Artist: Daniel Roher on "Navalny"". Sundance Institute. January 26, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  2. [2]
    Peter Howell, "'Five fragile young men': How Daniel Roher went from young fan of the Band to putting their story on film". Toronto Star, September 5, 2019.
  3. [3]
    "TIFF 2019 to open with documentary about Canadian rock legend Robbie Robertson". Toronto Star, July 18, 2019.
  4. [4]
    "CNN FILMS And HBO MAX Announce Revealing Alexey Navalny Documentary Thriller NAVALNY By Director Daniel Roher". Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  5. [5]
    "CNN Films, HBO Max Partner for Navalny Documentary". The Moscow Times. 2022-01-14. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  6. [6]
    Sarner, Robert. "26-year-old Jewish-Canadian director to launch Toronto Film Festival". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  7. [7]
    Alyssa Noel, "Whistler Film Festival hands out awards". Pique Newsmagazine, December 14, 2019.
  8. [8]
    Lauren Malyk, "Canadian Cinema Editors name 2020 nominees". Playback, April 8, 2020.
  9. [9]
    "From despair to redemption: The remarkable survivors". CBC Indigenous, March 2, 2015.
  10. [10]
    "2017 Canadian Screen Awards nominees revealed". Global News, January 17, 2017.


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