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The unique voice of Canada’s documentary film industry has lived on her shoulders for decades. Helen Karawajian’s never-ending quest for truth and justice inspire us all.
At the age of 16, Helen Karawajian became a flight attendant on Northwest Airlines and began filming her first documentary on the Toronto International Film Festival for Canadian TV. Two years later, she moved to New York to continue her film career. Her first job was in a newsroom where she developed a passion for filmmaking.
Her first foray into documentary filmmaking was a series on young homeless women in Toronto. Working with CBC producer Bob Goodman, she met and befriended many of the women and produced the documentary Women Like Us. It was the beginning of a career-long friendship between Helen and many other women who work in the industry.
In 1999, she decided to return to Canada and founded the National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Social Justice Documentary.
The award is named for the pioneering producer Dora Mavor Moore, who made award-winning documentaries including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Song of the Loon (1944) and The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968). It highlights socially relevant films and gives a national platform for Canadian filmmakers to discuss contemporary social issues.
In 2001, Helen started making Unruly. She was soon recognized as one of Canada’s best young filmmakers, and she won the BAFTA, German Kulturpreis, and the World San Francisco International Film Festival’s Henry Fonda Producer’s Award. Unruly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
In 2004, she produced and directed her first fiction film, On the Way to You. In 2006, she received the Toronto International Film Festival’s Teddy Award and the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming.
In 2007, she was a producer and director on the CBC documentary Mind Over Mass, which won the 2006 Genie Award for Best Docudrama.
She produced this year’s The New Moon Dance, a poetic look at indigenous mental health, and a story about Canada’s first woman head of intelligence.
Helen also produced and directed I Used to Live Here, a powerful documentary about Syrian refugees in Toronto 3125841983
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