{"id":23371,"date":"2024-09-14T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaff.ca\/?post_type=cpt_team&#038;p=23371"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:39:27","slug":"leena-minifie","status":"publish","type":"cpt_team","link":"https:\/\/isaff.ca\/film-festival\/team\/leena-minifie\/","title":{"rendered":"Leena Minifie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leena Minifie (Gitxaala\/British) is a film and television producer and impact strategist based in Vancouver, BC. Her recent producer roles include co-directing and co-producing\u00a0<em>THE GOOD CANADIAN<\/em>\u00a0(in production, CBC, APTN),\u00a0<em>BONES OF CROWS<\/em>\u00a0(CBC, APTN),\u00a0<em>LILY GLADSTONE: FAR OUT THERE<\/em>\u00a0(PBS),\u00a0<em>BRITISH COLUMBIA &#8211; AN UNTOLD HISTORY<\/em>\u00a0(Knowledge),\u00a0<em>THE RECKONING: SECRETS UNEARTHED BY TK\u2019EML\u00daPS TE SECW\u00c9PEMC<\/em>\u00a0(CBC), and producing the interactive piece\u00a0<em>SENSE OF HOME\u00a0<\/em>(Best New Media ImagineNative 2012), and\u00a0<em>?E?anx \u2018THE CAVE\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(Sundance Festival 2011, TIFF Top Ten Shorts). Now an award-winning series producer whose projects have been nominated for over twenty Canadian Screen Awards and have won multiple Leos, she previously led the Stories First impact team through the strategic marketing and impact production of\u00a0<em>INDIAN HORSE<\/em>,\u00a0<em>THE GRIZZLIES<\/em>,\u00a0<em>MONKEY BEACH<\/em>,\u00a0<em>THE NEW CORPORATION<\/em>,\u00a0<em>NIGHT RAIDERS<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>RUN WOMAN RUN<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leena Minifie (Gitxaala\/British) is a film and television producer and impact strategist based in Vancouver, BC. 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