Elizabeth Yake is a Canadian film producer, who is the founder and president of True West Films."Producer Yake goes Green in B.C.". The Province, August 27, 2005. She is most noted for the films Everything's Gone Green and It's All Gone Pete Tong,"Film producer scripts success story on Saltspring". Victoria Times-Colonist, July 3, 2005. the latter of which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film in 2004"Women behind two hot indie films share secrets at Vancouver fest". Canadian Press, October 3, 2005. and was a Genie Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture at the 26th Genie Awards in 2006."Genie Award nominations". Peterborough Examiner, January 26, 2006.
Recent productions include Canadian digital series The Drop, which premiered via Narcity Canada's YouTube in 2023.
Education Yake was educated at the University of Guelph, Ryerson University and Regent's University London. She has also studied at the Canadian Film Centre.
Career Yake's dramatic films include The Feeler, Shoemaker, Desire, Mile Zero, Miss Texas, It's All Gone Pete Tong and Everything's Gone Green. Her documentaries include Hadwin's Judgement, Jeff Wall: In Order to Make a Picture, bp: pushing the boundaries, The Dragon's Egg, Mémoire Moire des souvenirs and Out of the Woods.
She was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award in 1999 for The Dragon's Egg.
In 2005 she won the Leo Award, Best Feature Length Drama for It's All Gone Pete Tong"DJs are in clubs and onscreen". Vancouver Sun, June 4, 2005. and again in 2007 for Everything's Gone Green.
It's All Gone Pete Tong was voted by Playback one of the ten best films of the 2000s, was nominated for Best Achievement in Production Award at the British Independent Film Awards, Best Actor and Best Feature at the HBO US Comedy Festival (Aspen), winner of the Audience Award and Best Feature Award at the Gen Arts Film Festival in New York.
Awards and nominations
2016, Nominated for Canadian Screen Award for Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary for Hadwin's Judgement 2015, Won Sharon Gibbon Award from Vancouver Women in Film & Television Spotlight Awards
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