Michka Saäl (partial data)
Also known as: Mishka Saal
Countries: Canada / Tunisia
Born: 1949
Died: 2017
Films directed by Michka Saäl
Quote about Michka Saäl
"[Michka] Saäl passed away last year [in 2017], and never received the recognition at home or abroad that her talent merited. Her work addressed issues of race and exile and examined those forced into invisibility on the margins. 'She really was an unfortunately overlooked director,' wrote Charlotte Selb in suggesting Saäl for Redux [at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival]. 'As a woman, an immigrant and just somebody who wasn't much of a festival politician, she wasn't always getting the recognition she deserved.' As is the aim of Redux, we hope this spotlight on Saäl will bring her to new audiences, as her films continue to reverberate with meaning in our present moment."
-- Kiva Reardon
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Notes about Michka Saäl
- Born in Tunisia.
- Moved to Quebec in the 1980s.
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Bibliography for
Michka
Saäl
Section 1: Publications about Michka Saäl
Brief Sections of Books
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Currat, Joëlle, Élodie François, Anna Lupien, and Pascale Navarro. 40 ans de vues rêvées : l'imaginaire des cinéastes québécoises depuis 1972. Edited by Marquise Lepage. Montréal: Réalisatrices Équitables/Éditions Somme toute, 2014. Photographies, Anna Lupien.
[in French] (pp. 219-222)
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