Nationality Canadian Role Screenwriter Name Danishka Esterhazy | Website danishkaesterhazy.com Occupation Writer, director Spouse Jonathan Esterhazy | |
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Known for Black Field, Alexis Kochan, Sara Canning Movies Black Field, Fancy, Fancy, Being Rich Similar People Ferron Guerreiro, Guy Maddin, Sara Canning, Adriana O'Neil, Darcy Fehr | ||
Danishka esterhazy filmmaker director and much more
Danishka Esterhazy (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director.
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- Danishka esterhazy filmmaker director and much more
- FERNTV interview with Danishka Esterhazy BITS 2018
- Career
- Education
- Writer
- References
FERNTV interview with Danishka Esterhazy @BITS 2018
Career
Esterhazy is well known for her haunting stories and female-driven films. Her debut feature, Black Field, won the Best Feature Drama award at Vancouver's Women in Film Festival and the Best Canadian Feature award at Toronto's Female Eye Film Festival.
Esterhazy's films have screened in festivals and theaters and around the world including the Rome International Film Festival, the Puchon International Film Festival in South Korea, the Short Film Festival of India, La Maison Rouge in Paris and Kölner Filmhaus in Germany.
Her films have been broadcast on CBC Television, Bravo and Super Channel. Danishka is also a recipient of the prestigious Kodak New Vision Award for Most Promising Female Canadian Director awarded by Women in Film and Television Toronto. She also won the UBC Creative Writing Award for Best Screenplay at the 2015 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival.
Education
Esterhazy graduated from the Canadian Film Centre and the National Screen Institute.