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Jason Loftus

CEO & Executive Producer

A Peabody Award-winning film producer and five-time Canadian Screen Award nominee, Jason’s work spans documentary, docuseries, virtual reality, narrative games, and animation.

Awards

2024

  • Winner ‘Best Canadian Documentary’ Sundar Prize Film Festival
  • Nominee ‘Best sound, documentary or factual’ Canadian screen Awards
  • Nominee Peabody Awards

2023

  • Canada’s Official Selection for the 2023 Academy Awards® ‘Best International Feature’
  • Qualified ‘Best Documentary Feature’ , ‘Best Animated Feature’, 2023 Academy Awards®
  • Nominee ‘Best Writing’ IDA Documentary Awards
  • Nominee ‘Best Writing’ 50th Annie Awards
  • Winner ‘Best Director’ SIMA (Social Impact Media Awards)
  • Winner ‘Best Canadian Documentary’ Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
  • Nominee ‘Best Picture’ Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
  • Nominee ‘Best Director’ Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
  • Nominee ‘Political Film of the Year’ Cinema for Peace Awards
  • Winner ‘Audience Award’ Budapest International Documentary Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Grand Jury Award’ Rockie Awards, Banff World Media Festival
  • Winner ‘Best Social Issues & Current Affairs Program’  International program competition, Rockie Awards
  • Nominee ‘Best Cinema Documentary’ Grierson Trust UK Doc Award
  • Winner ‘Tijera’ for Best Censored Film Censurados Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Audience Award’ VUES SUR MER Documentary Festival
  • Nominee ‘Unreal Outsiders Documentary’ Film Threat’s Award This!
  • Nominee ‘Award This! Documentary’ Film Threat’s Award This!
  • Winner ‘Award This! Indie Animation’ Film Threat’s Award This!
  • Winner ‘Best Historical Documentary’ Association of International Broadcasters

2022

  • Winner ‘Best International Feature’, “Peter Wintonick” Fischer Audience Award, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
  • Winner ‘Hellenic Parliament Human Values Award’, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
  • Nominee ‘Activist Award’ Movies That Matter
  • Nominee ‘Student’s Choice Award’ Movies That Matter
  • Winner ‘Hot Docs Audience Award Hot Docs
  • Winner ‘Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary Hot Docs
  • Winner ‘Best International Documentary Feature’ Jury Award, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Best International Documentary Feature’ Audience Award, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Spirit of Activism Award Special Jury Prize, Spirit of Activism Award
  • Winner ‘Best Documentary’ Jury Awards, Lighthouse International Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Best Documentary’ Audience Awards, Lighthouse International Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Best Documentary Feature deadCenter Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Best Documentary Feature’ Audience Awards, Dances With Films
  • Winner ‘Best Canadian Feature Documentary Lunenburg Doc Fest
  • Winner ‘Supreme Jury Prize Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Young People’s Jury Award Reykjavik International Film Festival
  • Nominee ‘WIFF Prize in Canadian Film Windsor International Film Festival
  • Finalist ‘Human Rights Dox Award DokuFest
  • Nominee ‘DOC: South Award Oslo Films From The South

2021

  • Nominee ‘Best Documentary “Crime & Investigation’ Rockie Awards, Banff
    World Media Festival
  • Nominee ‘Best Socially Relevant Documentary’ Film Threat’s Award This!

2020

  • Winner ‘Best World Cinema Feature’ Copper Wing Award, Phoenix Film Festival
  • Winner ‘Best Documentary’, Canadian Cinematography Awards
  • Nominee ‘Best Documentary’ Grand Jury Prize, Slamdance
  • Nominee ‘Best Documentary’, Golden Castle Awards, OFF Cinema International Documentary Film Festival

2019

  • Nominee ‘Best Cross-Platform Kids Projects’ Canadian Screen Awards

2018

  • Nominee ‘Best Original Interactive Production for Digital Media’ Canadian Screen Awards
  • Nominee ‘Best Cross-Platform Project Non-Fiction’ Canadian Screen Awards
  • Nominee ‘Best Host in a Program or Series’ Canadian Screen Awards

2016

  • Winner ‘Best Film’ Gabriel Award
  • Nominee ‘Best Feature Narrative’ Jury Award, Vancouver Asian Film Festival
  • Nominee ‘Best Television Movie’ Leo Awards

2015

  • Nominee ‘Best Short Documentary Program’ Leo Awards
  • Winner Peabody Award

Filmography

Mediha (Documentary) (Executive Producer) 2023

 

To Kill a Tiger (Documentary) (Executive Producer ) 2022

 

Eternal Spring (Documentary) (Director, Producer, Writer) 2022

 

Ask No Questions (Documentary) (Director, Producer, Writer) 2020

 

#NoJoke (Documentary) (Producer) 2019

 

Confucius Was A Foodie (Docuseries) (Producer/Executive Producer) 2019

 

Badass Beauty Queen (Documentary) (Executive Producer) 2017

 

In the Name of Confucius (TV movie documentary) Executive Producer 2017

 

Avenues of Escape (Documentary) (Executive Producer) 2017

 

Human Harvest (Documentary) (Executive Producer) 2014