Laura Bari is Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 film director

Film director

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 and producer of Argentian

Argentina

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 origin and has been living in Montreal for more than 20 years. She studied pedagogy

Pedagogy

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, specialized in psychopathology

Psychopathology

Psychopathology is the study of mental illness, mental distress, and abnormal/maladaptive behavior. The term is most commonly used within psychiatry where pathology refers to disease processes...

 of the expression.

Between 1999 and 2002, Laura Bari directed over 300 documentary vignettes for a television program entitled "Cornemuse". This series has been playing twice a day for the past six years. In many of her works, she combines education and art particularly as it relates to children education. To this end, in 2006 she conceived a children television show entitled Toc-toc-toc.

Her debut long feature is Antoine

Antoine (film)

Antoine is an 82-minutes 2008 Canadian documentary film directed by Laura Bari. The film features a young 5-year old blind kid named Antoine Houang....

, an-award winning 82-minutes Canadian documentary film

Documentary film

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 about a young 5-year old blind

Blindness

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 kid named Antoine Houang living in Montreal

Montreal

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. Antoine is a daring, poetic, and playful docudrama

Docudrama

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 that intimately explores the life of this brilliant and unique blind boy who is fully integrated into the regular school system in Montreal

Montreal

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. Film is an homage to human resilience, optimism, and creativity.

The film has played in many film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival

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, New York, USA (April 2009), Vancouver International Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival

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, Hot Docs

Hot Docs

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 at Toronto and Sheffield Doc/Fest, - Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina, IDFA, Doc for sales, Amsterdam, Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden, Istanbul Independent Film Festival, Turkey, Rendez Vous du Cinéma Québécois, Montréal, winning:

• Special Jury Mention, RIDM, Montreal, November 2008
• Lindalee Tracey Award, Hot Docs, Toronto, May 2009
• First Special Jury Prize, Emotions Pictures, Athens, June '09
• Honorific Prize, Best Experimental Documentary, Docupolis, Barcelona, Spain, Sept '09
• Special Jury Award, San Diego Asian Film Festival, California, EEUU, October '09
• Talent Competition Dove, Leipzig DOK, Germany, Nov 09
• In nomination for Best Documentary, Jutra, Montréal, March 2010

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