Joële Walinga
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- Berlin 2021
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- Portugal
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- Canada
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Joële Walinga is an award-winning Canadian visual artist and filmmaker. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents 2021 and the 2022 Zurich Film Festival Academy. Her work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, SXSW, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, RIDM, and Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival among others. Her most recent feature film Self-Portrait premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2022, won the Special Jury Prize at RIDM, and was released on MUBI. The film was a New York Times pick for films to stream in spring 2024. Walinga is the founder of Toronto-based film and video art production company Soft Studio, and the co-creator of the free filmmaking gear program Everyone’s Camera and the free filmmaker residency program CASA PIP.
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