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Sudz Sutherland & Jennifer Holness
They met at York University as students and the rest is happy history for award-winning director David “Sudz” Sutherland and producer Jennifer Holness. The pair will be honored with an Award at the 2010 CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival – Celebrating Black History month, on January 21st 2010 at the illiam Do Auditorium, Univeristy of Toronto.
Sutherland broke through into the mainstream when his first feature Love Sex and Eating the Bones, starring Hill Harper won Best Canadian First Feature at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival and Best Feature at the Victoria Film Festival.
Sutherland’s short film, My Father’s Hands (1999) marked his debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film explores the rift between a Jamaican emigrant and his resentful Canadian-born son. My Father’s Hands toured the festival circuit in Canada and the US, winning four Golden Sheaves at the 2000 Yorkton Festival and garnering a Gemini nomination for Best Short. It earned Sutherland bragging rights as the first non-American winner of the $20,000 HBO Best Short Film award at the 2000 Acapulco Black Film Awards.
In 2001, Sutherland co-directed Speakers for the Dead with Holness, a documentary about a small town in rural Ontario and its quest to restore its history and dignity of its Black descendants. It went on to win Télé-Québec’s Chantal Lapaire Award at the Vues d’Afrique film festival in Montreal and Best Documentary at the 2000 Reel Black Film Awards for Vision and CBC Television.
Right: A still image from the documentary Speakers for the Dead
The equally talented Holness has produced a number of award-winning independent films and documentaries. She also works in television production on dramatic and variety programs, including Global’s “Ready or Not”, CTV’s “The Mike Bullard Show”, “The Tara Lipinsky Show” for CBS and CBC’s “Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle”.
