Karen Chapman
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Karen Chapman is an alumnus of Emily Carr University, the Banff Centre, Women in the Director Chair, the CaribbeanTales Incubator, the HotDocs Accelerator , Film Independent, Golden Globes and TIFF Talent Lab and the TIFF 2020 Accelerator, TIFF Every Story Accelerator 2024.
Chapman’s CBC Short Doc, Walk Good won WIFT – Toronto’s 2017 Audience Choice Award at their annual Showcase and her short, Lesson Injustice won the Best Screenplay Award the year after.
In 2018, she completed the Cineplex Film Program – Directors’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre and was named Chapman one of the “5 Filmmakers to Watch” by Playback Magazine.
Chapman’s love story, Essequibo Rapture, won the Caribbean Film Academy’s International Screenplay Competition and it received funding from Bell Media’s, Harold Greenberg, Shorts to Feature Fund.
Her VR experience, They Should be Flowers, premiered at HotDocs and was nominated for a Canada Screen Award for Best Immersive Non-Fiction. Her short ,Measure, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, where it won the International Hollywood Foreign Press Award and Residency at the 2020, Golden Globe Awards.
Chapman’s Quiet Minds Silent Streets premiered at the 2022, Toronto International Film Festival and received the award for best Documentary at Canadian Film Festival along with winning Best Mental, Non-Fiction Film at the Yorkton Film Festival and a Silver Medal at the 2024 Anthem Awards.
