Bad Coyote

Bad Coyote
Directed byJason Andrew Young
Written byJason Andrew Young
Produced byPaul McNeill
StarringEmily Mitchell
Pierre Rompre
CinematographyJohn Walker
Edited byAndrew MacCormack
Music byDave Anderson
Production
company
Release date
  • September 2013 (2013-09) (AIFF)
Running time
52 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Bad Coyote is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jason Andrew Young and released in 2013.[1] The film profiles the expansion of the Eastern coyote into Atlantic Canada, centred in particular on the 2009 death of singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell in a coyote attack.[2]

The film premiered at the 2013 Atlantic International Film Festival, and received some further film festival and commercial screenings, including at the Planet in Focus environmental film festival,[3] before receiving a television broadcast on Documentary in 2014.

The film was nominated for Best Science or Nature Documentary, and Young was nominated for Best Direction in a Documentary Program, at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.

  1. ^ "Local filmmaker has new doc on coyotes". SaltWire Network, October 23, 2013.
  2. ^ "Creston library documentary film looks at deadly new super-species". Creston Valley Advance, March 4, 2014.
  3. ^ Jason Anderson, "Putting the planet in focus". Toronto Star, November 22, 2013.