Su Rynard
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Su Rynard (born 1961) is a Canadian film and television director, editor and video artist.[1] She is most noted as the director of the 2005 feature film Kardia,[2] which was the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival.[3]
The niece of Canadian experimental filmmakers Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland,[4] she began her career as a video artist in the 1980s,[5] associated with Trinity Square Video[6] and the YYZ Gallery art collective.[7]
In the 1990s she had editing credits on Cynthia Roberts's films The Last Supper and Bubbles Galore,[8] and directed the short films Signal (1993), Big Deal, So What (1995),[9] Eight Men Called Eugene (1996),[10] and Strands (1997),[11] before graduating from the Canadian Film Centre in 1997.[12] Her short films, united by themes of the relationship between science and life, were also later screened together as the anthology package Life Tests.[13]
She released her full-length debut documentary Dream Machine, a profile of musician Roberta Michele, in 2000.[14] She subsequently worked on various documentary television series before releasing Kardia in 2005.[2] From 2008 to 2015, she directed numerous episodes of the documentary series Air Crash Investigation.
In 2015 she released the documentary film The Messenger, profiling the environmental threats to songbirds.[15] In 2021 she released Duet for Solo Piano, a profile of pianist Eve Egoyan.[16]
Her television documentary Reef Rescue, about efforts to save coral reefs from environmental destruction, was broadcast in 2020 as an episode of The Nature of Things,[17] and in 2021 as an episode of Nova.
References[edit]
- ^ Wyndham Wise, "Su Rynard: The Making of Kardia". Northern Stars, 2005.
- ^ a b Ken Eisner, "Kardia". Variety, October 26, 2005.
- ^ Jeremy Kay, "Sloan science prize at Hamptons goes to Cardia". Screen Daily, October 6, 2005.
- ^ Jay Stone, "Director brings her vision to town". Ottawa Citizen, March 24, 2000.
- ^ Nancy Baele, "Variety's the key to video art; SAW Gallery festival focuses on artists instead of technology". Ottawa Citizen, October 2, 1986.
- ^ Salem Alaton, "Workshop a linchpin in the arts community". The Globe and Mail, February 3, 1986.
- ^ Kate Taylor, "Art follows cable TV into the home Complaints prove that people are watching the videos from YYZ gallery"]. The Globe and Mail, March 27, 1993.
- ^ Robert Fife, "Lesbian porn film had federal, provincial backing: Bubbles Galore credits several government agencies". National Post, May 11, 1999.
- ^ John Doyle, "Critical List". The Globe and Mail, October 28, 1995.
- ^ "New directors toil in film-shorts proving ground". Toronto Star, August 30, 1996.
- ^ Peter Birnie, "A point is made, darkly". Vancouver Sun, October 4, 1997.
- ^ Peter Howell, "Film's brightest talent: Centre's class of six graduates unspools wares". Toronto Star, June 17, 1997.
- ^ John Laycock, "Festival draws independent films". Windsor Star, May 9, 1998.
- ^ Marc Horton, "Local singer embraces star-maker machinery: NFB film reveals packaging side of music business". Edmonton Journal, September 28, 2001.
- ^ Paul Nicholson, "Songbirds' future echoes environment". Chatham Daily News, May 30, 2015.
- ^ Marc Glassman, "Duet for Solo Piano Review: In Tune with Eve Egoyan". Point of View, March 12, 2021.
- ^ "Extra: CBC slates “Reef Rescue”; former Fox Networks Group exec joins ProgramBuyer". RealScreen, February 28, 2020.