IRENE LILIENHEIM ANGELICO
director, producer, writer, editor
Irene Angelico is the winner 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 International Salute to the Documentary and selected for retrospectives in London and France.
In 1980, Angelico and her partner Abbey Neidik produced and directed Dark Lullabies about the effects of the Holocaust on the next generation of Germans and Jews. This highly regarded film has garnered many prestigious international prizes, and continues to be shown including the inaugural film at the Stratford Festival Forum, the Berlin Arsenal 70th anniversary of the Holocaust, the Inconvenient Films: International Human Rights Festival and Liberation 75 in Toronto in 2021.
Angelico went on to direct and write award-winning series including Black Coffee, about the history and social impact of coffee, Inside the Great Magazines, about the first international media; and The Cola Conquest, about Coca-Cola as a metaphor for
America and winner, among others, of the Best Documentary Series by an Independent at Hot Docs, the Gold Apple and the Silver Hugo in Chicago.
Angelico produced and wrote many other highly successful films including The Love
Prophet and the Children of God; She Got Game (Guirlande d'Honneur - Milan, Best
Documentary - Temecula Valley, Chris Statuette – Columbus); Song for Tibet (Gemini); Vendetta Song (Best Documentary, CIDA Prize, Best Documentary - Quebec
Film Critics Association, Best Documentary - Calgary, Best Documentary - Female Eye;
Unbreakable Minds, a poignant film that aims to humanize mental illness; Shekinah: the Intimate Lives of Hasidic Women, # 1 in the box office for six weeks and Beyond Earth: the Beginning of NewSpace, named by Realscreen as a MipCom Pic for 2017.
Angelico has also published several articles and books including The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe, written by her father, Henry Lilienheim, and endorsed by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Elie Wiesel and the Dalai Lama; and The Third Seder: A Haggadah for Yom HaShoah, which includes new rituals they created uniquely for the commemoration of Yom HaShoah.
Angelico is currently in distribution with First to Stand, a documentary featuring the work of Irwin Cotler and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; After Exodus: the Untold Story of Rasta and Jews, a musical journey featuring Bob Marley’s granddaughter Donisha Prendergast.
FILMMOGRAPHY (selected)
The Cola Conquest; A Trilogy (1998).
A three-part documentary special about Coca-Cola as a metaphor for America .
Producer, Director, Co-editor, Co-writer
Awards:
Best Documentary Series by an Independent - Hot Docs )1999)
Gold Apple - National Education Media Network (1999)
Silver Hugo - Chicago international Television Competition (1999)
Best Writing in a Documentary or Series - Gemini Awards (1999)
Best Documentary Series Nominee - Gemini Awards (1999)
Encounter Internacionais de Cinema Documentale, Vila Franca de Xira (1998)
Broadcasts: Canal Plus France (Africa1998), ABC (Australia1995), Ronin Films (Australia1999), Telepool (Austria1996), VRT (Belgium1996), Canal Plus France (Belgium1998), TV Max/HBO (Czech Republic1999), Denmark Radio (Denmark1998), Channel 4 (England1996), YLE 2( Finland1996), Canal Plus France (France1998), Telepool (Gero-colinization)many1996), Spektrum TV (Hungary1999), Noga Communications LTD (Israel1998), American Movie Classics (Latin America1998), Canal 22 Television Metropolitain (Mexico1997), Ronin Films (New Zealand 1999), NRK (Norway1998), Canal Plus Poland (Poland1997) Sogecable (Spain1996), SVT (Sweden1998), Telepool (DRS) (Switzerland1996), Canal Plus France (Switzerland1998), Chinese Network Television (Taiwan1997), American Movie Classics (USA1998), NPS (Netherlands), Sogecable (Spain).
Dark Lullabies (1985).
A documentary feature about the effects of the Holocaust on the next generation of young Jews and Germans.
Producer/Director/Writer/Editor
Awards:
First Prize - International Film Festival of Mannheim (1985)
Special Prize, Most Socially-Politically Engaging Film, International Film Festival of Mannheim (1985)
Ecumenical Jury award - International film Festival of Mannheim (1985)
Second Prize – Educational Jury, International film Festival of Mannheim (1985)
Most Memorable Film - World Television Festival, Tokyo (1986)
Red Ribbon - American Film Festival (1986)
Best Feature Film Nominee - Torino International Festival of Young Cinema, Prize of the City of Torino (1986)
Prix du Public at the NFB's "Salute to the Documentary"(Dark Lullabies selected as one of 50 best documentaries of all time) (1989)
Broadcasts: CBC (Canada 1986) Telequebec (Canada 1986) ZDF (Germany 1986) PBS (United States 1987) NHK (Japan, 1987), ABC (Australia 1987), MTV3 (Finland 1987); numerous other stations throughout the world.