Jason Loftus

Jason Loftus is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He is most noted as director of the documentary film Eternal Spring, which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[1]

The CEO of Lofty Sky Entertainment, he was executive producer of the 2014 documentary film Human Harvest, which was a Peabody Award recipient for Documentary Programming in 2015 and a Donald Brittain Award nominee at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.[2]

Ask No Questions, his debut film as a director, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2020.[3] With film distribution in 2020 largely impeded by the COVID-19 pandemic, the film subsequently partnered with the San Francisco DocFest to screen the film in a virtual reality environment.[4]

Eternal Spring, an animated documentary created in collaboration with Chinese animator and activist Daxiong, was released in 2022.[5] When it screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, it was named the overall winner of the Hot Docs Audience Award for most popular film in the festival, and the first-place winner of the Rogers Audience Award for the most popular Canadian film.[6]

References
  1. Jackson Weaver, "Eternal Spring named Canada's submission for Oscars' best international film". CBC News, August 24, 2022.
  2. Brent Furdyk, "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
  3. Alex Saveliev, "Ask No Questions". Film Threat, January 25, 2020.
  4. Patrick Hipes, "A Film Festival Screening In VR? ‘Ask No Questions’ Documentary Is Trying It, And Here’s How It Will Look". Deadline Hollywood, April 17, 2020.
  5. Rachel Ho, "Award-Winning Documentary 'Eternal Spring' Gets Uncomfortably Close to Its Subject". Exclaim!, May 16, 2022.
  6. Jennie Punter, "‘Eternal Spring’ Takes Rogers Audience and Hot Docs Audience Awards". Variety, May 9, 2022.


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