AMANDA FORBIS AND WENDY TILBYĬalgary-based animators Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby were at the Academy Awards for their nominated short film The Flying Sailor. Rae says most of her family still lives in Calgary and held watch parties Sunday night to honour her. It’s now no longer the time to stay silent.” “He’s in prison for telling the truth, and like he says in our film, don’t be an active.

“Our speech was not necessarily to thank the friends and family that helped get us here, and there are so many of them, but more about Alexei’s message, trying to bring global attention to getting him out of prison, you know, getting him free,” Rae said, adding they also felt it was important to give Navalny’s wife Yulia a chance to speak. The win came with a message about Navalny, who survived poisoning with a lethal nerve agent only to get locked up behind bars.

“It’s really quite heavy and it got a little bit dirty from all the partying last night I think,” she said, holding up her engraved Oscar.ĭirected by Toronto-based filmmaker Daniel Roher, Navalny details the 2020 assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Alexei Navalny. Rae worked as one of the producers on the film, alongside Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris. “You’re kind of in shock, and so, you just sort of take it in, try and breathe, move through it, and it’s over very quickly, but it doesn’t feel like it up there,” she told CTV News from her hotel room in Los Angeles, California. ODESSA RAEĬalgary-born Odessa Rae says she will never forget the moment Questlove announced Navalny as the Academy Award winner for best documentary feature film. Three Calgarians were nominated for awards and another showed their dance skills on stage during a musical performance. Calgary was well-represented at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night.

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