Adrienne Amato

Adrienne Amato was born in Zimbabwe and lives in Toronto, Canada where she has made several arts/culturally based documentary films and creates live visuals for Poetry Sound System Workout. Her films have won numerous awards, screening at prestigious festivals such as IFFR, Clermont-Ferrand, and Doc Leipzig, as well as being broadcast on TVO and CBC. Her filmography includes Forgotten Mother (1989), A Brief Life (1992), First Break (1997, National Film Board), National Anthem of Nowhere (2007), Side Girl, (2012), To the End of Poverty, (2013) for TVO's Why Poverty? Series and Tutti Frutti (2019). Her most recent project, Mbira Talks, is a feature length documentary shot in Zimbabwe and Canada.