Video Portraits
Close-up on the arts
Since 2013, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance have put out a call to professional filmmakers in Canada to create video portraits of the award winners.
The response from the media arts community is always enthusiastic as it represents a unique opportunity to produce an artistic short film about a key figure in the visual, media arts, or fine craft. The commissioned filmmakers create the videos in a fully creative and collaborative way with the artists. The videos then take on a life of their own, becoming artworks themselves.
Video production
The request for proposals from filmmakers across Canada to create videos on the 2024 GGArts winners will be issued in the fall of 2023.
2023 filmmakers
Aaron Adetuyi and Jody Racicot
Video of Grace Nickel
Kyle Armstrong (Dropper Productions)
Video of Germaine Koh
Raghed Charabaty
Video of Tim Whiten
Pixie Cram
Video of Evergon
Rami Katz
Video of Shannon Walsh
Lantern Films Inc. (Hân Phạm and Dave Rodden-Shortt)
Video of Nettie Wild
Silent Tower Inc. (Priscilla Galvez and Jeff Pavlopoulos)
Video of FASTWÜRMS
Aaron Zeghers
Video of David Garneau


Video Archive
In addition to the GGArts website, the videos are available on Youtube.