Dope is Death: A Documentary by Mia Donovan

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In this episode of CLR, Join Tasha Simms as she speaks with “Dope is Death” filmmaker,  Mia Donovan, an award-winning filmmaker based in Montreal. She has written and directed three feature documentaries, INSIDE LARA ROXX (2011), DEPROGRAMMED (2015) and DOPE IS DEATH (2020).

DOPE IS DEATH is the story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 – a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.

Mia has made two documentaries, INSIDE LARA ROXX (2011) and DEPROGRAMMED (2015). She was the recipient of the prestigious Don Haig Award for outstanding achievement as an emerging filmmaker in 2012. Her films have been presented worldwide at film festivals, on TV broadcasts, theatrically and on digital platforms such as Netflix. In 2016 she wrote and directed her first virtual reality experience called DEPROGRAMMED VR (2016) which won the coveted IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling that year. She is currently in development on her first narrative feature film called THE TOUCH OF HER FLESH and in post-production on her latest documentary feature called DOPE IS DEATH (2020).

 

 

GAT at DOXA 2020

June 18 – 26

Admission: $6-10 sliding scale per individual virtual ticket; Festival Passes: $60.

Tickets: www.doxafestival.ca

 

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About Mia

Mia Donovan is a filmmaker and award-winning photographer. She moved to Montreal at age seventeen to escape her hometown of Moncton, New Brunswick. She holds a BFA from Concordia University. As an artist Mia’s work focuses on humanizing people who have often been misrepresented by the media.  Her first documentary film, Inside Lara Roxx, follows ex-porn star Lara Roxx over a tumultuous 5-year-period as she struggles to build a new identity and find hope in the wake of her past.  She is currently working on her second feature-film inspired by the events surrounding her stepbrother’s deprogramming from an alleged Satanic-cult in the early 1990’s.

www.miadonovan.com

www.eyesteelfilm.com

mia@eyesteelfilm.com

 

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film Production (2017)

Concordia University

Bachelor of Fine Arts (2003)

Concordia University

 

FILMOGRAPHY

• DOPE IS DEATH, (2012, post-production), documentary feature film, produced by Eyesteelfilm. Written, directed and edited by Mia Donovan.
• WE ARE HAPPY CHILDREN IN THE GARDEN OF GOD, (2020, post-production). Written, directed, produced and edited by Mia Donovan.
• Deprogrammed, (2015), documentary feature film, produced by Eyesteelfilm. Written and directed by Mia Donovan.
• Inside Lara Roxx, (2011), produced by Eyesteelfilm. Written, directed, shot and produced by Mia Donovan.

 

INTERACTIVE PROJECTS

• DEPROGRAMMED VR. (2016), produced by Eyesteelfilm and Dpt. Written and directed by Mia Donovan.

AWARDS

• IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling, 2016.
• AWWWARDS site of the day Award for DEPROGRAMMED VR an interactive experience, 2016.
• FWA of the day Award for DEPROGRAMMED VR an interactive experience, 2016.
• Brooklyn Film Festival – Spirit Award for DEPROGRAMMED, 2016
• Don Haig Award, presented by Documentary, 2012.
• Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, 2011 – Best Documentary of Society and Humanity award for INSIDE LARA ROXX. 2011

 

SELECTED FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

Hot Docs, IDFA, RIDM, CPH DOX, Tempo Film Festival, Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Dok Fest Munich, DokuFest (Kosovo), ZagrebDox, HIFF (Hamptons International Film Festival), RIFF (Reykjavik International Film Festival), VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival), Cinema Politica, RVCQ, SF Indie Fest, Brooklyn Film Festival, Paris Virtual Film Festival, MUTEK

JURY PARTICIPATIONS

• FICFA – 2012 jury for all competitive categories.
• CALQ – 2013 peer jury for research and creation for documentary films.
• RVCQ – 2018 best feature documentary released in Quebec.

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