Mia Donovan
Mia Donovan is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. She is best known for her documentary Inside Lara Roxx released through EyeSteelFilm about 21-year-old Canadian Lara Roxx who in the spring of 2004, left her hometown Montreal heading to Los Angeles for working in pornography and within two months contracted HIV after shooting an unprotected sex scene with two males. Donovan followed Lara Roxx through 5 years of Roxx's attempt to build a new identity and find hope in the wake of her past.
Mia Donovan
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- Mia Donovan
- Occupation
- Photographer and filmmaker
- Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- Concordia University
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Mia Donovan is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. She is best known for her documentary Inside Lara Roxx released through EyeSteelFilm about 21-year-old Canadian Lara Roxx who in the spring of 2004, left her hometown Montreal heading to Los Angeles for working in pornography and within two months contracted HIV after shooting an unprotected sex scene with two males. Donovan followed Lara Roxx through 5 years of Roxx's attempt to build a new identity and find hope in the wake of her past.
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Her film won "Best Documentary on Society and Humanity" at the 2011 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival and it was runner-up for "Best Feature at 2012 Boston Underground Film Festival. In 2012, she was named the winner of the Don Haig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Donovan received a B.F.A in Art History and Studio Arts from Concordia University in 2001. Her photographic series 'Stripped' was shown in Montreal in January 2005. The series was an artistic reflection of commodification in the sex industry. She was picked as one of the "Noize Makers 2001" by Montreal arts weekly Montreal Mirror.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mia Donovan • Occupation — Photographer and filmmaker • Notable Works — Inside Lara Roxx
Filmography
Filmography
• 2011: Inside Lara Roxx (director, co-producer, writer) • 2015: 'Deprogrammed' • 2020: Dope Is Death
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.James Adams. Inside Lara Roxx: The deadly price of porn fame. The Globe and Mail. 3 February 2012.
- 2.Christine Estima. Hot Docs interview: Mia Donovan, director of Inside Lara Roxx. TheGATE.ca. 8 May 2012.
- 3.Brian McKechnie. Interview: Filmmaker Mia Donovan looks at what's 'Inside Lara Roxx'. Criticize This, Canada. 5 May 2012.
- 4.Gzdoc 2011.
- 5.2012 Boston Underground Film Festival: Award Winners (2 April 2012)
- 6.Brendan Kelly, "Darlings of DIY docs; Montreal's EyeSteelFilm winning acclaim by keeping it real". Montreal Gazette, May 11, 2012.
- 7.IDFAcademy Summer School 2011 | IDFA.
- 8.Deprogrammed « EyeSteelFilm.
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