Michael Toledano
Michael Toledano is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted as co-director with Jennifer Wickham and Brenda Michell of the 2024 documentary film Yintah.[1] The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary, and Toledano won the award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary, at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025.[2]
During production of the film, Toledano, who is Jewish,[3] was arrested and detained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2021.[4] The charges against him were later dropped as he had not actually committed any crime.[5]
Toledano and Sam Vinal, who was also an executive producer on Yintah, previously co-directed the short documentary film Invasion: The Unist'ot'en's Fight for Sovereignty in 2020.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Pat Mullen, "How Yintah Captures the Fight for Witsuwit’en Land". Point of View, April 24, 2024.
- ^ Pat Mullen, "The Tragically Hip, Okurimono Lead Canadian Screen Award Documentary Nominees". Point of View, March 26, 2025.
- ^ "This Jewish journalist was embedded with the Wet’suwet’en—then the RCMP arrested him". Canadian Jewish News, December 7, 2021.
- ^ Morgan Lowrie, "Two journalists among 15 people arrested by RCMP near B.C. pipeline worksite". Vancouver Sun, November 20, 2021.
- ^ "Coastal GasLink drops charges against journalists arrested by RCMP during enforcement of pipeline injunction". CBC News British Columbia, November 22, 2021.
- ^ Christopher Driscoll and Lucas Hung, "Five B.C. original films to check out at this years VFF". The Martlet, February 5, 2021.
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