| SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY | ||
| FOR THE CULTURE WITH AMANDA PARRIS (Doc Series) | DIRECTOR, PRODUCER | 2025 -OYA Media Group; Noble Television; CBC |
| MICHELLE ROSS: UNKNOWN ICON (Documentary) | DIRECTOR, WRITER | 2025 -Noble Television; CBC |
| BAM BAM: THE STORY OF SISTER NANCY (Documentary) | DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER | 2024 -OYA Media Group; Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival |
| PAID IN FULL: THE BATTLE FOR PAYBACK (Doc Series) | DIRECTOR | 2024 -Green Door Pictures; Supercollider; Catalyst |
| BLACK COMMUNITY MIXTAPES (Doc Series) | DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER | 2023 -OYA Media Group -2024 Canadian Screen Award Nominee for Best Direction, Documentary Series |
| HERITAGE MINUTE: CHLOE COOLEY (Short) | DIRECTOR, PRODUCER | 2022 -Canadian Heritage Minute |
| THE PRESCRIPTION (Short Film) | DIRECTOR | 2021 -Short Film for Obsidian Theatre’s ‘21 Black Futures’ series for CBC Gem |
| PROMISE ME (Short Film) | DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER, CO-WRITER | 2019
-Yorkton Film Festival – Golden Sheaf Award – Won – Best Direction Fiction -Yorkton Film Festival – Golden Sheaf Award – Won -Scripted -Social Justice Now Film Festival -Reelworld Film Festival – Standout Writing Award Short Drama -Festival International du Film PanAfricain de Cannes – Finalist -Columbus International Black Film Festival – Best Short Drama Award -Winston M Moxam Award, Best Canadian Short at the AfroPraire Film Fest -Bronze Lens Film Festival |
| COOL BLACK NORTH (Documentary) | DIRECTOR | 2019
-2-hour TV documentary commissioned by CityTV -Rogers Intimate Film Festival by Rogers Women’s Network -Denton Black Film Festival – Honourable Mention -Now on Apple TV |
| CHANGING SEASONS (Documentary) | DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER | 2016
-1/2 Hour Documentary -Official 150 Canada Anniversary project |
| CONSENT (Documentary) | DIRECTOR, PRODUCER | 2016
-HIV Outrage Justice Film – Australian Premier -Pavillon Judith Jasmin Annexe (JE), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) (Montréal, Canada): December 1, 2015 -Contemporary Visual Culture (Edmonton, Canada) December 1, 2015 -November 26, 2015 – Fletcher Challenge Theatre (Vancouver, Canada) |
| WOMEN ON THE MOVE (Documentary) | DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER | 2013
-1/2 hour documentary & 3x5min web documentaries |
| SEX, CRIMINILIZATION, HIV, AND THE LAW (PSA) | DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, EDITOR, GRAPHIC ARTIST | 2013
-4 x 5 min PSA’s |
| THE POSITIVE WOMEN: EXPOSING VIOLENCE (Documentary) | DIRECTOR, PRODUCER | 2012
-Doris McCarthy Gallery (Scarborough, Canada) October 28, 2014 -Positive Women: Exposing Injustice (PWEI) -International AIDs Conference (Sydney, Australia), July 2014 Positive Women: Exposing Injustice (PWEI) |
| BATTY BOYZ REVENGE (Short Film) | DIRECTOR, WRITER, EDITOR | 2011
-InsideOut LGBT Film Festival -North Carolina LGBT Film Festival -Kingston LGBT Film Festival *nominated – Best Short -IMAGE+Nation Film Festival *nominated – Best Short -Rightout Film Festival *winner – Fan Fav short |
| THE VENT (Variety) | DIRECTOR | 2008
-6x 30 min Variety/Comedy Series (OUT TV) |
| THE WOMAN I HAVE BECOME (Documentary) | DIRECTOR, PRODUCER | 2007
-45 min Documentary -UNAIDS Conference, (Geneva, Switzerland) 2009 The Woman I Have Become (TWIHB) |
| SKIN DEEP (Reality) | DIRECTOR | 2003-2005
-1/2 Hour weekly reality TV Program (Inner City Film/ Lifetime Network) |
| A DEATHLY SILENCE (Documentary) | DIRECTOR | 2003
-1 hour documentary for public television (YAP, CBC) |
| RAISIN’ KANE: A RAPUMENTARY | DIRECTOR, WRITER | 2001
-Urbanworld Film Festival *winner – HBO Award for Best Documentary -Reel World Film Festival *winner – Best Canadian Documentary |
| MUSIC VIDEOS | ||
| THE TRILOGY BY MOTION
FEATURING APANI AND TARA CHASE |
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| MONOPOLY MONEY BY CITIZEN KANE | ||
| JUST MY LUCK BY VIP | ||
Alison Duke (aka “Golde”) is an award-winning documentary writer and director celebrated for fearless, socially resonant storytelling. Upcoming works include TV doc, ‘Michelle Ross: Unknown Icon’ and Season 2 of Amanda Parris’ acclaimed series ‘For the Culture.’ Duke broke into the industry with her debut feature, Raisin’ Kane: A Rapumentary (NFB), and has since directed many culturally relevant films, earning a reputation as one of Canada’s top documentarians and often referred to as the “Queen of Music Docs.” Her recent works include ‘Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story’ (Crave Original), which premiered at Tribeca 2024 and continues to tour internationally to acclaim, and ‘Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music’ (CBC/BBC), winner of the 2025 Canadian Screen Award (CSA) for Best History Documentary Program or Series and a Silver Award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards.
Duke also co-wrote and co-directed the five-part docu-series ‘Black Community Mixtapes,’ which garnered three Canadian Film Awards, and wrote and directed the short film’Promise Me,’ which won eight festival awards, including two Golden Sheafs.
Beyond her films, Duke co-founded the OYA Black Arts Coalition, where she mentors the next generation of Black filmmakers. She is the recipient of the 2024 Hot Docs Don Haig Award and the 2019 WIFT-Toronto Crystal Award for Mentorship.
Heritage Minute: Chloe Cooley (2022)
THE PRESCRIPTION (2021) Short Film
COOL BLACK NORTH (2019) Documentary
CHANGING SEASONS (2016) Documentary
THE POSITIVE WOMEN: EXPOSING VIOLENCE (2012) Documentary
RAISIN' KANE: A RAPUMENTARY - Documentary
THE TRILOGY by Motion, Featuring Apani and Tara Chase - Music Video
