01 / 08 · Director · 2023
Manufacturing the Threat
84 min. colour, 4K · 2023
★ Best Documentary · 5th Mosaic International Film Festival of Arts and Culture
Manufacturing the Threat is a feature-length documentary which examines a deeply disturbing episode in Canadian history, when an impoverished couple was coerced by undercover law enforcement agents into carrying out a terrorist bombing. Further, viewers learn that this case is far from unique in the context of Canadian intelligence. Shining a light into the murky world of police infiltration, incitement, and agent provocateurs, Manufacturing The Threat shows how Canada’s policing and national security agencies, granted additional powers after 9/11, routinely break laws with little to no accountability or oversight.
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
Best Documentary, Manufacturing the Threat, 5th Mosaic International Film Festival of Arts and Culture, 2024, Halifax
Festivals
2024: Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Quebec
ReFrame Film Festival, Nogojiwanong (Peterborough)
KDocsFF, Metro Vancouver
5th Mosaic International Film Festival of Arts and Culture, Halifax (Best Documentary)
2023: Doxa International Film Festival, Vancouver (world premiere)
Muslim International Film Festival, Australia
Whistleblower Summit & Film Festival, Washington DC
Silver Wave Film Festival, Fredericton NB
International World Film Awards
Big Sound International Film Festival, Ontario
Chatham-Kent International Film Festival, Ontario
Production & distribution
Production: Wide Open Exposure Productions
Canadian Distributor: MultiMonde
International Distributor: Limonero Films
Broadcast license: Al Jazeera International
Support & release
With support from SODEC, CAC, CALQ, Hot Docs/Rogers Finishing Fund
Theatrical release August 2023
Distributed by Multi-Monde Distribution and Limonero Films
Broadcast licence: Al Jazeera International
Book
Inspired by the book "Manufacturing threats" by Alexandre Popovic.
02 / 08 · Director · 2022
Muôi
30 min. colour, 4K · 2022
★ Best Travel Doc · Bangkok Documentary Film Festival
Despite a tumultuous childhood, a complicated present as a queer single mom navigating the limitations of a restrictive and traditional Vietnamese culture, and the daunting prospects of a bleak future, Muội Hồng persists in dreaming of life as an artist. She finds healing, strength, expression, community, meaning, and authenticity in her pursuit of hip hop dancing.
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
Best Travel Doc, Muôi, Bangkok Documentary Film Festival, 2022, Thailand
Production & distribution
Production: Wide Open Exposure, Byron A. Martin Productions
International Distributor: Journeyman
Institutional Distributor: Good Docs
Distribution
Distributed by Journeyman Films and Good Docs
Festivals
Winner of Best Travel Documentary, Bangkok International Doc Festival, Thailand 2022
RIDM Montreal Documentary International Film Festival, Montreal Nov 2022
03 / 08 · Director · 2018
Gaza: Health Under Siege
48 min. colour, 4K · 2018
★ Special Jury award · Oaxaca Film Festival
“Gaza: Health under Siege” takes us into the streets and hospitals of Gaza. Here you will witness firsthand the daily realities affecting the management of human health-related systems under the blockade: access to clean water and hospital care as well as effective food and waste management. Filmed in Gaza City during January and February 2016, the audience will meet a variety of local Gazans from doctors, nurses, street vendors, water workers, waste pickers and children to learn what is life like behind Israel’s massive wall surrounding Gaza.
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
Special Jury award, Gaza: Health Under Siege, Oaxaca Film Festival, 2018, Oaxaca
Production & distribution
Produced by: Wide Open Exposure, Byron A. Martin Productions
International Distributor: Java Films
Canadian Distributor: IndieCan
Broadcast license: Al Jazeera International
Festivals
Oaxaca International Film Festival 2018 - Special Jury Award
04 / 08 · Director · 2017
Tomorrow’s Power
77 min. colour, 4K · 2017
★ Special Jury mention · GNG Green Earth Film Festival
"Tomorrow's Power" is a feature length documentary that showcases three communities around the world and their responses to economic and environmental emergencies they are facing. In the war-torn, oil-rich Arauca province in Colombia, communities have been building a peace process from the bottom up. In Germany activists are pushing the country to fully divest from fossil-fuel extraction and complete its transition to renewable energy. In Gaza health practitioners are harnessing solar power to battle daily life-threatening energy blackouts in hospitals.
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
Special Jury mention, Tomorrow’s Power, GNG Green Earth Film Festival, Oct 2018, Los Angeles
Panorama award, Tomorrow’s Power, Hanoi International Film Festival, Sept 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam
Best feature doc, Tomorrow’s Power, Sydney International Film Festival, 2017, Australia
Special Jury mention, Tomorrow’s Power, Eco-Zine Film Festival, 2017, Zaragoza, Spain
Production & distribution
Produced by: Wide Open Exposure, Byron A. Martin Productions
International Distributor: Off The Fence
Canadian Distributors: IndieCan (English), MultiMonde (French)
TV Licenses: ERT-Hellenic Broadcasting Co. (Greece), Globalb MediaCom (Albania), Latvian Television, Media Entertainment (Hungary/Romania), iWonders (Africa/Asia/Oceania), Decent Go (Ireland)
Support & licences
With support from CMF, Super Channel, SODEC, PRIM, Telefilm Theatrical Fund
Distribution by Indiecan Entertainment, Multi-Monde Distribution, Off The Fence (sales agent)
Festivals
Selected in over 50 festivals. Highlights include:
2017 Cambodia International Film Festival, Phnom Penh,Cambodia
Zagreb Green Fest, Zagreb Croatia
EcoZine Film Festival, Zaragoza Spain
Cardoba International Film Festival, Carboda Colombia
Festival Internacional DocumentaQro, Querétaro Mexico
Bozcaada International Festival Ecological Documentary, Bozaada Turkey
Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental de Serra de Estrela, Seia Portugal
Competition section, SunChild International Environmental Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Festival Globale Bogota, Colombia
Patagonia Eco Film Fest, Chile
Hanoi International Film Festival, Vietnam
Theatrical screenings: 2018 Hot Docs Bloor Cinema, Toronto, ON February 15-22nd 2018 Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, QC April 20-29th 2018 Station Vu, Montreal QC May 16-19th 2018
Reviews
TOMORROW’S POWER
On saluera un film bien construit, aux images nettes et spectaculaires, notamment dans ses plans larges, et qui nous présente des gens attachants ✮✮✮ André Duchesne, La Presse
Les exemples sont éloquents et font sursauter d’horreur...Miller nous livre un pamphlet vibrant. Elle nous éduque sur la honte et le courage.. ✮✮✮Charles-Henri Ramond, SÉQUENCES
It is a documentary worth watching to learn more about environmental battles across the globe...You will leave intrigued.
✮✮✮ Ayurella Horn-Muller, Film Threat
05 / 08 · Director · 2013
No Land. No Food. No Life.
77 min. colour, HD · 2013
★ Crossroads/Images from Global South Grand Prize · 2015
"No Land, No Food, No Life" explores the calls for an end to the global land grabs, and for sustainable peasant and community agriculture.
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
Crossroads/Images from Global South Grand Prize, No Land. No Food. No Life., 2015, Festival del Terre, Italy
Special Jury mention, No Land. No Food. No Life., 2014, Festival de films pour l’environnement, Portneuf
Finalist, Best documentary: Society, No Land. No Food. No Life., 2014, Les Gémeaux, Quebec
Special mention, Social Justice Oxfam/IDFA Award, No Land. No Food. No Life., 2013, IDFA, Holland
Production & distribution
Films De l’Oeil, CMF, Super Channel, Télé-Quebec, SODEC, PRIM, SCAM
Canadian Distributor: Cinéfête International Distributor: Journeyman Picture
Support & licences
Funded by CMF, Super Channel, Télé-Québec, SODEC, PRIM, SCAM
Distribution by Cinéfête, Journeyman Pictures
Additional TV licences: RT, Fior Sceal
Festivals
Selected in over 40 festivals. Highlights include:
2015
FIFA De Mons, Belgium
FESPACO, Burkina Faso
Festival Tutti nello Stesso Piato, Italy
One Earth Film Festival, USA
Festival du Film Vert, Switzerland
Cologne International Women’s Film, Germany
2014
Human Rights Human Wrongs Documentary Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
Festival International de Films D’environnement de Paris, Paris, France
Festival International de Cine de Panama, Panama City, Panama
Crossroads Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
Festival International de Cine Ambiental, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Festival Alimenterre, Belgium
Festival des Libertés, Belgium
2013
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theatrical Screenings: Cinéma Excentris, Port Cartier’s Ciné-Graff, Rimouski’s Paraloeil Cinema, New Richmond’s Ciné Bobine, Sept-îles’s Ciné-Club, Lavaltrie’s Café-Ciné, Prévost’s Ciné-Club
Interactive Project
(2013-2018) Interactive multiplatform project implemented as a complement to the documentary production. With support from Super Channel, CMF digital fund
Reviews
“Very important documentary that balances first- person accounts from farmers and some industry representatives with an overview of the political and economic forces surrounding the issue ✮✮✮1⁄2 T’Cha Dunlevy, THE GAZETTE
“Très documenté et très pédagogique.” ✮✮✮1⁄2 Benoit Rey, CINÉMANIAK
“The best documentaries leave viewers with some rather strong feelings, typically outrage against a devastating problem. No Land, No Food, No Life does just that, exposing the disgusting practices of huge companies, as well as the terrible devastation they leave in their wake.” ✮✮✮1⁄2 William Brownridge, TORONTO FILM SCENE
“On peut se féliciter de croiser la route d'une telle documentariste qui brasse la cage de nos certitudes. Au terme de la démonstration, on adhère à l'affirmation d'un de ses sujets lorsqu'il dit: «Qui possède des semences possède la vie.» ✮✮✮1⁄2 André Duchesne, La Presse
06 / 08 · Director · 2012
The Carbon Rush
84 min. colour, HD · 2012
★ Prix du Vautour · Festival FREDD
The Carbon Rush takes an up-close look at the framework that is being used to reduce carbon and investigates whether or not offsets are distracting us from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. Who will gain, who will lose, and what impact is an international carbon market having on our environment?
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
Prix du Vautour, The Carbon Rush, Festival FREDD, 2015, Toulouse, France
Best feature film, The Carbon Rush, Barichara Environmental Film Festival, 2014, Colombia
Special mention, Best Political Film 2013, The Carbon Rush, 2013, Cinema Politica Network
Best feature doc, The Carbon Rush, 17th Annual MEFEST, 2013, Serbia
Production & distribution
Production: Wide Open Exposure, Byron A. Martin Productions
Financing: Canadian Media Fund, Super Channel, Télé-Quebec, Rogers Finishing Fund, NFB FAP program
Canadian Distributor: KinoSmith, US Distributor: The Video Project, GATHR Films
VOD Distributor: GAIAM Films
International Sales Agent: Films Transit
TV Licenses: Super Channel, Télé-Quebec, TV5 Monde, (International) NHK (Japan), Denmarks Radio (Denmark) GLOBOTV (Brazil), Telesur (Venezula)
Licences
Additional TV licences: Amazon India, Canal+ Cyfrowy/ITI Neovision (Poland), Media Entertainment (Hungary-Romania)
Festivals
Selected in over 80 festivals. Highlights include:
2015
Kirloskar VAsundhara Int. Film Festival, Pune, India
OPENING FILM at 1st Ahvaz International Science Films Festival, Ahvaz, Iran
Angkor Wat International Film Festival, Cambodia
One Earth Film Festial, USA
2014
Sedona International Film Festival, Sedona, Arizona, USA
Cape Town Eco Film Festival, Cape Town, South Africa
Barcihara Film Festival, Colombia
BEST FILM AWARD Document12 festival, Glasglow, Scotland
Bogazici Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Kathmandu International Film Festival, Nepal
2013
Human Rights Human Wrongs Festival, Oslo, Norway
30th International Environmental Film Festival, Paris, France
Docville, Leuven, Belgium
12th Edition Festival de Lasalle en Cévennes, Cévennes, France
10th Green Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2nd Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Crossroads – Festival for Documentary Film and Discourse, Graz, Austria
Greenscreen Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
17th International festival of Environmental films MEFEST, Vlasina Lake Serbia
Argentina’s Environmental Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rio De Janiero International Film Festival, Rio, Brazil
2012
AWARD OF MERIT The Indie Festival, La Jolla, California, USA
CLOSING GALA The Green Nation Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival
Take One Action Film Festival - Edinburgh, Scotland
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2nd Miami Beaches Environmental Film Festival, Miami, Florida, USA
OPENING FILM Polar Ice International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Montreal, QC
COP18, Doha, Qatar, 5 special screenings during the UN Climate Conference
Book
THE CARBON RUSH BOOK
Published by: Wide Open Exposure Productions, Red Deer Press
Release date: January 2014
Description: The Carbon Rush book is a gorgeous 212 page paperback with essays and images relating to the fallacies of the carbon market.
Interactive Project
(2012-2018)
Interactive multiplatform project implemented as a complement to the documentary production.
With support from Super Channel, Bell New Media, CMF digital fund
Reviews
"...one of the finest, most carefully researched and executed political exposés of the year." ✮✮✮1⁄2 Ezra Winton, ART THREAT
“The Carbon Rush takes a complex subject and makes it clearer.” ✮✮✮1⁄2Jay Stone, POST MEDIA
07 / 08 · Director · 2009
Myths for Profit
58 min. colour, HD · 2009
★ People’s Choice Award · Bay Street Film Festival
Through diverse interviews and case studies this documentary unveils the specific interests and profits that are made by certain corporation, individuals and agency within Canada.
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
People’s Choice Award, Myths for Profit, Bay Street Film Festival, 2009, Thunder Bay
Production & distribution
Production: Wide Open Exposure Productions
Financing: Funded by over 50 social justice organizations, peace and faith-based groups across Canada and over 350 individuals.
The tour
“Stopping War in Canada” tour: 44-stop cross-Canada community screening tour, March to May 2009
Festivals
Selected in over 35 festivals. Highlights include:
2010
State (T)error Special Section of Milano Film Festival, Italy
2009
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal official selectionBay Street Film Festival official selection
Stopping War in Canada Tour: 45 screenings during semi-theatrical cross-Canada tour
08 / 08 · Director · 2008
Outside of EUrope
28 min. colour, HD · 2008
★ People’s Choice Award · Migration Contest
Examines exclusionary nature of European Union immigration policies, migration and detention centres.
Credits, festivals & press
Awards
People’s Choice Award, Outside of EUrope, Migration Contest, CBC-RCI, 2008, Canada
Production & distribution
Production, Distribution: Wide Open Exposure
Festivals
Selected in over 20 festivals. Highlights include:
Star & Shadow Newcastle Cinema UK 2010
People’s Choice award, Migration Contest, CBC-RCI 2008
Also produced
Producer & associate producer
Associate producer
About
Amy Miller
Amy Miller is an award-winning director, producer and writer based in Montréal. Her feature films as director include Manufacturing The Threat, Tomorrow’s Power, No Land. No Food. No Life., The Carbon Rush and Myths for Profit. Her documentaries have been screened at festivals throughout the world, and have been broadcast in over two dozen countries and are featured in library catalogues of hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. She remains dedicated to creating documentaries for transformative social change.
Awards
- Best Documentary, MANUFACTURING THE THREAT, 5th Mosaic International Film Festival of Arts and Culture, 2024, Halifax
- Best Travel Doc, MUÖI, Bangkok Documentary Film Festival, 2022, Thailand
- SODEC-RIDM Producer Lab Hot Docs scholarship, 2019, Hot Docs Toronto
- Special Jury award, GAZA: HEALTH UNDER SIEGE, Oaxaca Film Festival, 2018, Oaxaca
- Special Jury mention, TOMORROW’S POWER, GNG Green Earth Film Festival, Oct 2018, Los Angeles
- Panorama award, TOMORROW’S POWER, Hanoi International Film Festival, Sept 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Best feature doc, TOMORROW’S POWER, Sydney International Film Festival, 2017, Australia
- Special Jury mention, TOMORROW’S POWER, Eco-Zine Film Festival, 2017, Zaragoza, Spain
- Crossroads/Images from Global South Grand Prize, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, 2015, Festival del Terre, Italy
- Prix du Vautour, THE CARBON RUSH, Festival FREDD, 2015, Toulouse, France
- Best feature film, THE CARBON RUSH, Barichara Environmental Film Festival, 2014, Colombia
- Special Jury mention, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, 2014, Festival de films pour l’environnement, Portneuf
- Finalist, Best documentary: Society, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, 2014, Les Gémeaux, Quebec
- Special mention, Social Justice Oxfam/IDFA Award, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, 2013, IDFA, Holland
- Special mention, Best Political Film 2013, THE CARBON RUSH, 2013, Cinema Politica Network
- Best feature doc, THE CARBON RUSH, 17th Annual MEFEST, 2013, Serbia
- Shortlisted for 2013 Yorkton Gold Sheaf Emerging Filmmaker award, 2013, Toronto
- Bell Media Fellowship, Banff World Media Festival, 2012
- ONF-NFB Filmmakers Assistance Program recipient, 2011
- SCAM Writers award, Montreal, 2011
- ONF-NFB Emerging Producer Scholarship, 2010, RIDM, Montreal
- Astral Media Emerging Director Scholarship, 2010, Hot Docs Toronto
- People’s Choice Award, MYTHS FOR PROFIT, Bay Street Film Festival, 2009, Thunder Bay
- People’s Choice Award, OUTSIDE OF EUROPE, Migration Contest, CBC-RCI, 2008, Canada
Activities
- Board Member of Doc Quebec 2022-Present
- Jury member: Festival International du Film d'Environnement 2022
- Jury member : Prix Magnus Isaacson 2022
- Jury member: Le Cinéma sous les étoiles de Funambules Média 2021
- Senior video producer at The Breach 2021
- Regards croisés- Le rôle des médias face à la crise environnementale- Ciné Vert 2021
- Can films affect social change? Amy Miller in Conversation- CBC THE BRIDGE 2020
- International Jury member: Bangkok International Documentary Awards 2020
- Board member: CUTV (Concordia University Television) 2020-Present
- Programmer: TËNK 2019-Present
- Guest speaker: Positive Planet, Cannes International Film Festival, Cannes, France 2019
- National Jury member : Gala Québec Cinema 2019
- International Jury member: SunChild Environmental Festival, Armenia 2018
- Jury member: SODEC development project selection 2017
- Programmer: Cinema Politica Network 2013-Present
- Member: Documentary Organization of Canada 2009-Present
- Board member: PRIM- Independent Producers, Directors of Montreal 2013/14/15
- Jury member: PRIM project selection- Post Production 2015
- Jury member: SODEC project selection- Production 2014
Publications
Books
"The Carbon Rush Book", 2014
Editor The Peoples Commission Manual on National (In) security September 5, 2008
Sex Tourism article in The Women's Movement Today: an Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism, Leslie Heywood (Ed) (Oct 2005) Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
"Land Grabs Across Canada" October 2010, The Dominion Newspaper
"Dark Anniversary: Abousfian Abdelrazik languishes under UN watch list" May 2010, The Dominion Newspaper
Radio
Amy has produced over 30 hours of radio stories for various programs around the world.
Press
…a gripping narrative grappling with real questions about power, control, and what counts as a threat to national security.
…this documentary is truly eye-opening.
Very important documentary that balances first-person accounts from farmers and some industry representatives with an overview of the political and economic forces surrounding the issue.
…one of the finest, most carefully researched and executed political exposés of the year.
The best documentaries leave viewers with some rather strong feelings, typically outrage against a devastating problem. No Land, No Food, No Life does just that.
Directed by Canadian filmmaker Amy Miller, The Carbon Rush takes a complex subject and makes it clearer.
The Carbon Rush is an intelligent and relentlessly critical look at an under-reported aspect of the earth’s environmental problems.
Très documenté et très pédagogique.
