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For immediate release
September 13, 2005

Toronto-based filmmaker Judith Doyle wins 2005 CanWest Global Communications Award

The Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) at The Banff Centre has awarded its 2005 Global Television Network Broadcast Communications Award to Judith Doyle, a filmmaker and long-time professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design. The award was made possible through a generous five-year commitment of support made by CanWest Global Communications Corporation to The Banff Centre in 2001. Doyle will receive $5,000 toward participation in training and mentorship at the Banff New Media Institute.

"CanWest is pleased to support The Banff Centre and its innovative media programs," said Bruce Leslie, Managing Director of Corporate Affairs and Public Relations for CanWest Global Communications Corp. "The Global Television Network Broadcast Award gives artists the opportunity to develop leading edge skills and be the leaders in the Canadian and international media industry."

The Banff Centre encourages specialists in convergent media, entertainment, games, media policy, and intellectual property law from across Canada to apply for the award. Past recipients have included performance artist and writer Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, intellectual property law specialist Christene Hirschfeld, and new media producer and developer Michel Blondeau.

BNMI has been at the centre of new media convergence and content development for 15 years. The Institute provides research opportunities, summits, resulting research prototype labs, professional development workshops, co-productions, partnerships, project commissions, academic exchanges, publishing, and business incubation.

Bio - Judith Doyle

A founding member of Rumour Publications and Worldpool, an organization of artists exploring telecommunications technologies, Judith Doyle's art practice includes film, video and new media works. She has directed two hour-long 16mm documentaries : Eye of the Mask : Theatre / Nicaragua (special citation, Mannheim Film Festival 1985) and Lac La Croix (1988). Her feature film Wasaga (1994) still plays the late-night slots on Bravo TV, and her short film the last split second (1998) won the ‘Chameleon’ award for Best Documentary at the Brooklyn Film Festival.

Doyle has written and published widely, and has 12 years combined experience on the editorial boards of Impulse and Fuse magazines. She has taught part-time at the Ontario College of Art and Design since 1986, and over the last several years has been working on projects about ideas of nature, human/animal relations and urban foxes. As part of the CanWest Global Communications Award, her co-production with BNMI involves the development of visual research in human/animal interaction, memory, and location using 3D cinematic spaces and game engines.

Currently doing post-graduate work in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at York University in Toronto, Doyle has been creating digital media with her colleague Paul Elia at Reading Pictures.

for more information on the Banff New Media Institute:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi