B: December 9, 1946 in Munich, Germany
Irene Angelico is an acclaimed film director, producer and writer. Born in Germany after the war, her parents were concentration camp survivors who miraculously found each other and emigrated to the United States. She grew up in New York and Chicago, became a civil rights activist who demonstrated in Washington DC in support of the Selma March, and moved to Canada in 1969. Her father wrote an extraordinary book about his and his wife’s Holocaust experiences titled The Aftermath. Angelico is the recipient of numerous international awards for directing and producing, as well as a Gemini for best writing in a documentary. Her work was included in The Fifty Greatest Documentaries of all Times at the NFB’s international Salute to the Documentary, and selected to represent the best of the NFB’s Studio D at retrospectives in London and France. She was the first woman from Québec selected for Women in the Director’s Chair in Banff and is the founding chair of CIFC-Montreal (now DOC Québec). As of late 2021, her production company, DLI Productions, had completed work on First to Stand, a POV feature documentary against the erosion of human rights that focuses on the work of Irwin Cotler, founder and chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, an Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and an international human rights lawyer. The film follows Cotler and his team of young activists as they battle the world’s most repressive regimes to liberate political prisoners. Unless otherwise credited, we list Irene Angelico’s documentary credits as a Producer first. Company website. |
Features & TV Movies: Dark Lullabies (1985) The Journey Home: a Romanian Adoption (2000) Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women (2013) Shared Legacies (Creative Consulting Producer, 2020) Credits as a Director: Dark Lullabies (1985) The Cola Conquest (1998) Mockstars (TV-2002) Reaching for Zion (2021) Credits as a Screenwriter: Dark Lullabies (1985) Between the Solitudes (1992) The Journey Home: a Romanian Adoption (2000) Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women (2013) Reaching for Zion (2021) |