Randall Okita
Randall Okita is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1]
Career
His 2014 National Film Board of Canada short film The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival,[2] and was named to the festival's list of the year's ten best Canadian shorts.[3] It also won awards for Best Short Film at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, Best Experimental Short Film at both the New York Short Film Festival and LA Shorts Fest,[4][5] as well as Best Cinematography at the Berlin International Short Film Festival.[6]
Okita's 2016 feature film directorial debut The Lockpicker received the inaugural John Dunning Discovery Award for Best Microbudget Film at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards.[7] The film also won the Grand Jury Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2016.[8]
References
- ↑ "Local Reel Asian Fest director isn't too cool for school". Now, November 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Toronto: 'The Imitation Game' Wins People's Choice Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 14, 2014.
- ↑ "Film fest celebrates Top 10 Canadian films of 2014". Telegraph-Journal, December 3, 2014.
- ↑ "The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer". NFB.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "THE AWARD WINNERS". 20th LA Shorts Fest.
- ↑ "Awards and Winners". Interfilm. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "Randall Okita to receive inaugural John Dunning Discovery Award". Playback, January 12, 2017.
- ↑ "SDAFF Award Winners | Pacific Arts Movement". pacarts.org. Retrieved 2018-04-27.