Elizabeth Klinck has worked as a producer, researcher and clearance specialist on hundreds of international documentary films that have garnered BAFTA, Emmy, FOCAL, Canadian Screen Awards, Peabody, and Oscar awards.
A graduate of Queen’s University, she has presented hundreds of masterclasses at numerous international festivals, markets, and universities, and film schools.
Nominated for an Emmy in the Craft of Research and three times for Best Visual Researcher at the FOCAL UK Awards, Elizabeth has won six Best Visual Research Awards at the Canadian Screen, Gemeaux, and Gemini Awards. In 2008 she was the first Canadian to be awarded the FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 she was awarded the inaugural DOC Star Award by the Documentary Organization of Canada for her mentoring and leadership in the Canadian documentary community. In 2019 the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presented her with their prestigious Board of Director’s Tribute for her body of work and volunteerism in the Canadian and international documentary film communities.
Elizabeth has served on the board of WIFT, Canada’s Audio Visual Trust, World Congress of Historymakers, and is the founding chairperson of the Visual Researchers’ Society of Canada. She presently serves on the Executive Committee for FOCAL International (UK) and is a member of DOC Toronto and WIFT.
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Contacts
Credits/nominations
Ninth Floor
National Film Board of Canada (2015) , Visual Researcher
Bikes vs. Cars
SVT (2015) , Visual Researcher
How To Change The World
Met Films and Insight Productions (2015) , Archive Producer
Apocalypse World War One
Ideacom/CC&C (2014) , Visual Researcher
Our Man In Tehran
Rhombus Media (2014) , Visual Researcher
Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story
The Movie Network Inside Comedy (2013) , Visual Researcher
Arctic Defender
John Walker Productions (2013) , Visual Researcher
Stories We Tell
National Film Board of Canada (2013) , Visual Researcher
Disco: The Secret Revolution
Cave 7 (2012) , Visual Researcher / Music Clearances
Payback
National Film Board (2012) , Visual Researcher
Mama Africa
Starhaus (2011) , Visual Researcher
Wildlife
National Film Board of Canada (2011) , Visual Researcher
Beauty Day
Primitive Entertainment (2011) , Visual Researcher/Music Clearances
Reel Injun
Rezolution Films / CBC (2011) , Visual Researcher
A Drummer’s Dream
John Walker Productions / NFB (2010) , Visual Researcher
Waterlife
NGI/History Television (2009) , Researcher
The Jazz Baroness
BBC/HBO (2009) , Archive Researcher
Paris 1919
ARTE, TVOntario, NFB (2008) , Archive Supervisor
The Qu’ran
C4/National Geographic (2008) , Researcher
100 Films and a Funeral
Sundance/DOC (2007) , Archive Supervisor
Music Rising
CTV (2007) , Archival Researcher
Tank Man
PBS/Channel4 (2006) , Researcher
Devil’s Brigade
History Television (2006) , Archive Supervisor
Pucker Up
HBO (2005) , Archival Researcher and Music Clearances
Middle Sexes
Carlton/HBO (2005) , Researcher
The Last Round:Ali vs Chuvalo
National Film Board of Canada/CBC (2004) , Associate Producer
The Peacekeepers
National Film Board of Canada (2004) , Visual Researcher
Rompin Ronnie Hawkins
Real to Reel Productions/CTV (2004) , Visual and music clearances
Flesh and the Devil
Carlton/HBO/CBC (2003) , Researcher
Offstage:Onstage Stratford Festival
National Film Board of Canada/CBC (2002) , Researcher
Ted Allan
National Film Board of Canada/Galafilms/CBC (2001) , Producer
Miracles
Carlton/HBO/CBC (2001) , Researcher
Fat
Carlton/HBO/CBC (1999) , Researcher
The Man Who Might Have Been
National Film Board of Canada/CBC (1998) , Associate Producer
Twins
Carlton/HBO/CBC (1998) , Researcher
Sound and Fury
CBC (1996) , Associate Producer
First Stop China
National Film Board/CBC/Radio Canada (1986) , Associate Producer