Amanda Strong
Awards and grants
Awards and grants
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Strong has received grants from the [Canada Council for the Arts](/wiki/Canada_Council "Canada Council"), [Ontario Arts Council](/wiki/Ontario_Arts_Council "Ontario Arts Council") and the [National Film Board of Canada](/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada "National Film Board of Canada"). In 2009, Strong was the recipient of the ImagineNATIVE/LIFT mentorship. In 2013, Strong was awarded the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Film and Video. In 2015, she was awarded the Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Media Artist. In 2016, she was selected by [Alanis Obomsawin](/wiki/Alanis_Obomsawin "Alanis Obomsawin") to receive $50,000 in services from [Technicolor](/wiki/Technicolor_SA "Technicolor SA") as part of Obomsawin's [Clyde Gilmour](/wiki/Clyde_Gilmour "Clyde Gilmour") Technicolor Award at the [2016 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards](/wiki/Toronto_Film_Critics_Association_Awards_2016 "Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2016").

The film *Mia* that Strong co\-directed with Bracken Hanuse Corlett won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best [Aboriginal](/wiki/Yorkton_Film_Festival_Golden_Sheaf_Award_-_Aboriginal "Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal") at the 2016 [Yorkton Film Festival](/wiki/Yorkton_Film_Festival "Yorkton Film Festival"). In 2018, she was awarded best script as well as Special Mention for her short film *[Biidaaban](/wiki/Biidaaban_%28The_Dawn_Comes%29 "Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes)")* at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Biidaaban is also a nominee for best animated short in the 2019 [Canadian Screen Awards](/wiki/Canadian_Screen_Awards "Canadian Screen Awards")


Who is a recipient of the ImagineNATIVE/LIFT mentorship?