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Biography Maia Iotzova is a visual artist, a filmmaker, and a graphic novelist. She uses variety of mediums to explore our intimate connections in a world fragmented by social and political forces and personal turmoil. Her first documentary Grass Through Concrete - The Struggle to Protect the Red Hill Valley (72min, 2004) screened widely in Canada. Her second film Green Dream (50 min, 2015) opened the Sofia Biting Docs Film Festival in Bulgaria, screened in Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Switzerland, and was awarded Best Feature Film at the 6th International Eco Fest, Romania, 2016. Iotzova holds a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is dedicated to bringing forward the voice of women in film and visual art. She was a co-host at the radio show of the feminist new media centre AdaX (Formerly Studio XX), for 5 years. Since 2016 she has been working with the Inuit led Isuma Collective. Their most notable work is Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, winner of Camera D’Or in Cannes. The Isuma Collective represented Canada in the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. CV (English) (Français) https://www.maiaiotzova.com/documentary daily 0.75 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b85aea79f87707ca05a12a3/1536082683195-PZTF204MW6BYZ4Y9T6RC/Margaritka_e-mail.jpg Documentary Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b85aea79f87707ca05a12a3/1536102435563-LUJZMJ79RTBS9SNQLGR7/Margaritka_e-mail.jpg Documentary Film - Green Dream (50 min., 2015, Canada, Bulgaria) Watch Film Гледайте филма Regardez le film Download Educational Guide The Grand Prize for Best Feature Film at the 6th International Festival for Ecological Films - EcoFest, Romania. Green Dream is an author documentary that contemplates nature's place within the city. Maia Iotzova takes the viewer on a journey from the wild fields of Sofia, Bulgaria to the manicured parks of Vancouver, Canada and, finally, to a community-managed park (Le Champ des Possibles) in Montreal. Observing the cities where she has lived, the filmmaker tries to piece together the urban and the wild, two realities that have traditionally been seen as opposites. Green Dream is also a film about maturing as a person and living with one's roots spread between different cultures. The film takes some surprising turns as the author questions her own relationship with nature and searches for a sense of home in the fragmented experience of immigration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b85aea79f87707ca05a12a3/1536105259881-IW0UHXMI863335W9GPPJ/paddy-doran-march.jpg Documentary Film - Grass Through Concrete (72 min., 2004, Canada) Watch excerpt Watch full film This grassroots documentary captures the heart felt struggle of a community to protect the Red Hill Valley (one of Canada’s largest urban parks) from a four-lane expressway. The story follows the unique cooperation of First Nations and various Hamilton citizens in setting up a camp in the Red Hill Valley and holding off construction crews. Through interviews with those involved and on site footage “Grass through Concrete” raises questions about local democracy, First Nations rights, urban sprawl and the value of green space in modern cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b85aea79f87707ca05a12a3/1536105816709-L050Y9TCH13V2II4EWCD/Screen+Shot+2018-09-04+at+19.47.21.png Documentary Film - Bulgarian Yogurt (Кисело Мляко) - In development Bulgaria is the country that brought yogurt to the Western World. And as the BBC article eloquently states "Not only is the history of yoghurt tied to Bulgaria, but Bulgaria's history and identity can be traced through its production." This is a film about how a bacterial culture shaped and was shaped by a building of a nation. 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