cinqque5tion with Producer, Production Manager Amanda Handy Nomad Films (by: Jovin Tardif) – What On What's Good

cinqque5tion2020 Nomad Films is an award winning producer of powerful documentaries and exciting factual programming, for broadcasters all over the world. Amanda joined Nomad Films in 2007 as a Partner and Producer. Successfully leveraging her diverse film and television experience that included running the Business Affairs and Marketing departments for some of Canada’s biggest drama and documentary production houses. Since joining Nomad Amanda has worked as a producer on the critically acclaimed documentaries When We Were Boys (Official Hot Docs and True False Film Festival Selections and Donald Britain Award Nominee) and The Al Qaeda Code (BANFF Award Nominee), as well as the ambitious 4 part documentary series Empire of the Word (Worldfest Houston Platinum Award Winner and Banff Award Nominee) and Nomad’s first drama feature film with the NFB, the Afghan based Act of Dishonour (Official Selection for the Edinburgh Festival), Coproduced with Dan Iron of Foundry Films (Away from Her). The Jungle Prescription, a documentary about an ancient Amazonian medicine called ayahuasca, which is being used cure western drug addicts at an astonishing rate, and an exciting 13 part documentary series called The Fight Xchange for Super Channel, which is a fascinating look at MMA fighting through a Brazilian, Canadian exchange program. Recently completed were Giraffes - The Forgotten Giants, a ground breaking natural science documentary project that challenges perceptions of giraffes for the CBC and PBS International, I Married My Family’s Killer, which won the Student Academy Award for Best Documentary and the Canadian Screen Award nominated Much Too Young a heartbreaking feature film for TVO and Knowledge Network that looks at the young caregivers of parents with early on set Alzheimer’s. Her latest work is as Producer and developer of the international documentary format hit, Political Blind Date (TVO/CPAC), where she is producing season two in Canada.

cinqque5tion with Producer, Production Manager Amanda Handy Nomad Films (by: Jovin Tardif)

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