Alison Duke

Alison Duke

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
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

MONOPOLY MONEY BY CITIZEN KANE
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Alison Duke is a Canadian Screen Award-winning director, writer, and producer with over two decades of experience in the film and television industry. A co-founder of OYA Media Group, Alison is known for her documentary and dramatic storytelling work. She began her career producing music videos for top Canadian urban artists before gaining recognition with her cult classic documentary Raisin Kane: A Rapumentary, which won several festival awards, including the HBO Award at the Urbanworld Film Festival. She went on to direct Cool Black North, a documentary special for Citytv that screened at over a dozen U.S. film festivals and is now available on Rogers On Demand and Apple TV. Alison’s work has often focused on social issues, as seen in her acclaimed documentary Mr. Jane and Finch, which won two Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, including Best Social-Political Documentary. Promise Me, earned multiple awards for her dramatic debut, including two Golden Sheafs for Best Direction and Best Scripted Fiction at the 2021 Yorkton Film Festival.

In 2021, Alison made history as the first Black woman to direct a Heritage Minute for Historica Canada. Alison also executive produced Evil By Design: Surviving Nygard, a 3-part docu-series for CBC Docs, which earned a 2023 Canadian Screen Award nomination and produced and directed Black Community Mixtapes, a series with Ngardy Conteh George that received several Canadian Screen Awards. Her recent work includes directing The Big Payback / Paid In Full, a documentary series on music industry injustices for Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures, and Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story, a feature music documentary for CRAVE, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Alison is also dedicated to giving back to her community, having founded the OYA Emerging Filmmakers Program in 2018 to support Black youth entering the Canadian film industry. In 2021, she co-founded the OYA Black Arts Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating training and mentorship opportunities for emerging Black filmmakers. Alison’s leadership and mentorship have been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2019 WIFT-Toronto Crystal Award and the 2024 Hot Docs Don Haig Award. Due to her recent works, Alison is gaining notoriety as the #queenofmusicdocs.