Kim Derko
약력
A graduate of The Emily Carr College of Art & Design in Vancouver, Kim Derko c.s.c. studied art history, colour theory and photography before becoming a cinematographer. These studies still drive and inform her artistic approach.
She started out shooting music videos and award winning music features. She garnered a Gemini and Much Music Video awards for her early work. Kim Derko’s recent film credits include a remake of Croenenberg’s RABID, a feature film directed by the Soska Sisters. Also, streaming right now is the CBC Gem series Save Me S2. Other Directory of Photography credits include features and series, including: In Contempt, a legal drama for BET, six seasons of The Next Step for Family Channel and Star Falls for Nickelodeon.
Second Unit Director of Photography credits include: Anon, Reign S4, Hollywoodland, Schitt’s Creek, Suits S8, The State Within and Murdoch Mysteries.
Kim is a full member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, IATSE 667, the International Caucus of Female Cinematographers and the Directors Guild of Canada.
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Outraged by the latest bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza and Walid recruit queer novelist Jean Genet to help them sabotage the Eurovision song contest in Jericho. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto's famous gay penguins... The emergence of queer BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) as a dynamic Palestinian-led global movement is brought to vivid life through interviews and actions, opera and agitprop, protests and pranks. Recounting fifteen years of passionate activism in Toronto and worldwide, Photo Booth juxtaposes a surreal operatic narrative with documentary scenes that explore pride and pink-washing, gay soldiers and homo-nationalism, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and the accelerating weaponization of anti-Semitism.
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Hopeless and lonely, Quinn accepts a software update on her phone. An update, which summons her into a dream world of antiquities, powerlessness and night terror.
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로즈는 과거의 트라우마를 지닌 채 살아가는 소심한 디자이너 지망생이다. 어느 날 동료로부터 초대받은 클럽 파티에서 모욕을 당하고 귀가하던 중 교통사고를 당해 안면에 끔찍한 장애를 얻게 된다. 이때 그녀를 돕겠다는 수수께끼의 인물 닥터 버러스의 실험적 치료를 받게 된다. 성공적으로 보이는 약물 치료에 기뻐하지만 피를 갈구하는 무시무시한 부작용이 나타나기 시작한다. 그녀에게 물리적 상처를 입은 사람들이 잔인한 흡혈 괴물로 변하며 인류를 위협하는 끔찍한 감역이 퍼지기 시작한다.
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Mavis Dogblood is a Mohawk painter from Canada haunted by the tragic death of her husband, who was hit by lightning. She paints the stories he used to tell her, but she can’t come to grips with her loss. It is only after she drives to New York City for an art opening, traveling across what were her ancestors’ tribal lands, that Mavis reconciles herself to her new life.
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A non-fiction ghost story, featuring the last generation of Gaelic storytellers on Scotland's Isle of Skye.
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Kardia weaves fiction and science to tell the story of Hope, a pathologist who embarks on a journey of reconciliation. Hope discovers that the experimental heart operation she underwent as a child has mysteriously linked her life with another. To unlock the secret of her past, Hope must revisit her childhood and explore regions of her life that have heart stopping results.
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총알보다 빠른 사나이의 의문의 죽음1959년 6월 16일, 로스앤젤레스. 인기 TV시리즈 에서 슈퍼맨 역을 맡아 인기를 한 몸에 받았던 스타배우 조지 리브스가 할리우드의 자택에서 단 한발의 총상으로 숨져있는 것이 발견된다. 총알보다 빠른 사나이의 이유 없는 죽음은 약혼자인 레오노어 레몬과 수백만 명의 팬들에게 충격과 슬픔을 안겨주었고, "자살일까? 타살일까?"하는 의문만 무성한 가운데 LA경찰은 조지 리브스의 죽음을 자살로 종결 짓는다. 하지만 아들의 죽음에 강한 의문을 품고 아들이 살해되었다고 확신하는 조지의 어머니 헬렌 베솔로는 사립 탐정 루이스 시모를 고용하여 조지의 죽음을 조사하도록 한다.루이스 시모는 조사 과정에서 조지 리브스가 영화사 MGM의 사장 에디 매닉스의 부인인 토니 매닉스와 불륜의 관계였음을 알게 된다. 루이스 시모는 토니와의 관계가 조지 리브스의 죽음에 숨겨진 비밀을 풀 실마리로 확신한다. 하지만 그가 진실에 한걸음씩 다가갈수록 할리우드의 추악한 모습이 조금씩 드러난다. 과연 조지 리브스의 죽음과 연관된 비밀들이 밝혀질 것인가?
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Apples and Oranges is designed to raise children's awareness of the harmful effects of homophobia and gender-related name calling, intolerance, stereotyping and bullying. In the course of a lively in-class discussion among elementary students and an equity educator, children's paintings magically dissolve into two short animated stories. In Anta's Revenge, Anta finds out that creativity--not revenge--is the best way to deal with a school bully who makes fun of her for having two moms. Defying Gravity tells the story of Habib and Jeroux, two skateboarding friends whose relationship comes to a screeching halt when one of them finds out the other is gay.
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Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.
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Road trips have never been this killer! Jason Priestley stars as Breakfast, a psychotic jewelry store thief whose grip on reality is frighteningly precarious. With his accomplice Panda, the duo make off with a carload of cash, a result of a tip-off from beautiful cashier Ziggy. Her reward: to hitch a ride with the out-of-control duo so that she can meet her long-lost father Francis. But Breakfast is on a suicidal quest to even a score with his former boss and has the cops hot on his trail. Rage, murder and revenge are about to collide!
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In Living Memory is a bittersweet dialogue between father and daughter, challenging traditional notions of remembering and forgetting. This video explores the loving and sometimes stormy relationship between the two and explores the father's life as an artist and communist, who at age 93, is losing his memory.
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Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson packs a political wallop while satirically comparing and contrasting the issues of censorship and circumcision. The tale centers on the exploits of three homosexuals named Peter. Peter Koosens is obsessed with the semi-scandalous behavior of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau while college student Peter Cort, ponders the significance and necessity of male circumcision. Peter Denham is an artist who seduces the other two and freely borrows from their work to make something of his own. Their exploits land the trio in prison after an operatic number (the police sing songs adapted from Bizet's Carmen).
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A noir melodrama about a librarian's struggle as she encounters the capricious behaviour of a would-be kennel owner who is searching for a reference. Intrigue, romance, crime and punishment . . . For lesbian librarian Jane Putnam, it all happens in the stacks of the city's oldest public library.
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Mixing conventional and new digital technologies, Judith Doyle also weaves a dialectic between reality and fiction linked by he casual introspection of the film's narrator, a video artist named Rebecca. Over black and white archival footage from a fifties tourism film about Wasaga Beach, Rebecca says "I videotape photographs and places that are gone."
