ONODERA, Midi

b. Toronto, Ontario

• Japanese-Canadian
• official website
• has been producing, writing & directing films for over 20 years
• indie shorts, feature films
• collage of formats and mediums (16mm, Hi8, digital video, digital toy formats such as a modified Nintendo Game Boy camera, Intel Mattel computer microscope, Tyco video camera, Trendmasters video cameras)
• international exhibitions and screenings including Andy Warhol Museum, the International Festival of Documentary and Short Films (Bilbao, Spain), the Rotterdam IFF, the Berlinale, the National Gallery of Canada, TIFF (Toronto)

Bibliography:

• official website
• Mayne, Judith. "A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship." Film and Authorship. ed. Virginia Wright Wexman. Rutgers UP, 2003.
• Pietropaolo, Laura and Ada Testaferri. Feminisms in the Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.

Awards

• Honourable Mention / Golden Gate Award for The Displaced View (San Francisco IFF, 1989)
• Special Citation and Nominated for Best Documentary at the Gemini Awards for The Displaced View (1989)
• Best Short Film (Special Judges Award) for Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax) at the Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (1995)
• Best Feature Film (Audience Award) for Skin Deep at the Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (1995)
• Best Lesbian Short Film for The Basement Girls at the Sapphos Movie Awards (2001)
• Honourable Mention for I Have No Memory of My Direction at the Ann Arbor FF (2006)
• Honourable Mention for If These Walls Could Talk at Mobifest (2006)