Behind the Facade Series
This ten part, Golden Sheaf nominated series, shares untold stories from diverse communities, celebrating individual perseverance and community resiliency.
Films include Nuxalk Radio (Dir. Banchi Hanuse, VIFF Sea to Sky Award 2020, ImagineNATIVE, Hot Docs, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Available Light Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival ) Happytime Social Club (Dir. Dave Rodden-Shortt, VIFF, VQFF, Sidewalk, Love Story Film Festival) Have you Forgotten me ? (Dir. Baljit Sangra, DOXA, Seattle Asian American Film Festival), The Train Station (Dir. Lyana Patrick, Hot Docs, selected as part of Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent program at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, VIFF), A Place to Belong (Dir. Lyana Patrick and Rosemary Georgeson, VIFF, Skoden Indigenous Film Festival) and Ode to a Seafaring People (Dir. Joella Cabalu, Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Disorient Film Festival) and The Tomahawk (Dir. Lyana Patrick, Skoden Indigenous Film Festival), A Day at the Races and The First Synagogue (Dir. Jessica Hallenbeck).
Broadcaster
FESTIVAL AND AWARDS
2021
Yorkton Film Festival
Nominated for Research Award and Best Series Award
PRESS
POV Magazine Behind the Façade Review: Quick Bites of History
The Tyee New Short Films Explore BC’s Many ‘Façades’
The Commentary The academic and filmmaker Lyana Patrick discusses her three new short films, part of Knowledge Network’s Behind the Façade series
Miss 604 Behind the Façade: ten award winning short films to air on Knowledge Network
Scout Magazine How to make the most of this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival
YVR Screen Scene Five can’t-miss films at 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival