NETTIE WILD
Producer, Director, CO-Camera

Canadian filmmaker Nettie Wild is best known for her feature length documentary films, A Place Called Chiapas (1998), A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution (1989/90), and Blockade (1993).

A Place Called Chiapas won the 1999 Genie Award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary and has played theatrically in over 100 cities in cinemas across North America. It was premiered at the Berlin Film Festival (Forum of New Cinema),won the Audience Award for best documentary at the AFI-Los Angeles International Film Festival and was broadcast as a 2-hour prime time special on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Among other honours, A Rustling of Leaves was awarded The People's Choice Award at the Berlin Film Festival (Forum of New Cinema), the Prix du Public at the NFB's Salute to the Documentary and the Grand Prize at the Houston Film Festival.

Blockade shared honours as Most Popular Canadian Feature at the Vancouver Film Festival, and won the Red Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival and the Silver Award at Houston, as well as many other prizes.

Nettie comes to film from a background of journalism and theatre. Her radio documentaries of the Philippine guerrilla war and the SNAP revolution which brought Mrs. Aquino to power were carried extensively by CBC on programs such as Sunday Morning, As It Happens, Morningside and Ideas.

She has worked professionally as an actress, producer and writer, and is a founding member of Vancouver's Headlines Theatre, Touchstone Theatre and Tahmanous Theatre. FIX marks the second occasion on which Nettie has shared a cinematography credit for one of her films.