Ariella Pahlke is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, media artist, impact producer, curator, and educator living in Terence Bay, Nova Scotia. Ariella has extensive experience facilitating collaborative projects and participatory process is at the heart of her creative approach. For 30 years, she’s worked with a wide range of diverse communities and organizations, directing, writing, curating, and producing media projects including feature documentaries, shorts, installations, and interactive community projects.

Recently Ariella was the recipient of an Established Artist Recognition Award from Arts NS, a WIFT-AT Wave award, as well as a Documentary Writing award from the Writers Guild of Canada. In 2020, the Conviction team also won the Best Documentary award from Screen NS, and Lunenburg Doc Fest’s Best Atlantic Filmmaker award. Ariella is developing a personal feature-length documentary, Yesterday’s Troubles, and working on several other documentary and interactive collaborative productions. She’s presently serving as chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) and co-chair of DOC-Atlantic.

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