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Daniel Roher (/ r ɔːr /) is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario.
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Using the camcorder he received as a gift, Roher's first movies were fun projects made with friends, shooting around Toronto, learning about cameras. Early adventures included shutting down a TTC subway line when a portable generator started leaking gas — they were lugging it from his parents' house to light a Toronto alleyway. Roher was just 15. "...
For his early short films, Roher had few resources but a ton of grit — he was willing to show up first and ask questions later. "I would just pick a place in the world that was of interest to me, and I would go there and I would spend five weeks or six weeks and just stay there and try and find a story and try and shoot a movie," Roher said. "It wa...
As of March 3, The Hollywood Reporter predicted that Navalnywould win best documentary feature. "One of the most thrilling of the year," wrote critic Brian Tallerico, editor of RogerEbert.com. "Roher and his team are quite literally watching history unfold.… There's a scene with a phone call that should be on any list of the best documentary moment...
Daniel Roher's film Navalny won the 2023 Oscar for best documentary. Learn how he got his start with CBC Short Docs and his early adventures in filmmaking.
Feb 16, 2024 · Daniel Roher’s Oscar-winning 2022 documentary, “Navalny,” helped bring the story of Alexei Navalny into sharper focus for people around the world, delivering an intimate and personal portrait of...
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Daniel Roher is a Canadian filmmaker who has won an Oscar and directed documentaries such as Navalny, Once Were Brothers and Sourtoe. See his biography, awards, credits, photos and videos on IMDb.
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Feb 16, 2024 · In the opening moments of “Navalny,” the Oscar-winning 2022 documentary about the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, the director Daniel Roher asks his subject a dark question.
Mar 12, 2023 · As Navalny won best documentary feature film at the 2023 Oscars, filmmaker Daniel Roher dedicated the award to the film’s namesake political prisoner and Putin critic while Navalny’s wife told...
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Feb 17, 2024 · CNN Films. Daniel Roher, left, with Navalny and his wife Yulia, on the film set. In one extraordinary scene in the film, Navalny dupes an FSB agent into admitting over the phone that...
