Daniel Roher (/rɔːr/)[1] is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario.[2] He is most noted for his 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and his 2022 film Navalny, about the Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and political prisoner, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[4][5]
Daniel Roher | |
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.jpg) Roher at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival | |
| Born | 1993  Toronto |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, filmmaker |
Early life
Roher grew up in midtown Toronto, in a Jewish family. After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts, he studied for three semesters at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA.[6]
Career
His 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band was also screened at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award.[7] Roher and Eamonn O'Connor were Canadian Screen Award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Canadian Cinema Editors award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020.[8]
Roher previously directed the short documentaries Survivors Rowe,[9] which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017,[10] and Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal, which was a CSA nominee for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.
References
External links
- Daniel Roher at IMDb