Elizabeth Yake

Elizabeth Yake is a Canadian film producer, who is the founder and president of True West Films.[1] She is most noted for the films Everything's Gone Green[1] and It's All Gone Pete Tong,[2] the latter of which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film in 2004[3] and was a Genie Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture at the 26th Genie Awards in 2006.[4]

Recent productions include Canadian digital series The Drop, which premiered via Narcity Canada's YouTube in 2023.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Producer Yake goes Green in B.C.". The Province, August 27, 2005.
  2. ^ "Film producer scripts success story on Saltspring". Victoria Times-Colonist, July 3, 2005.
  3. ^ "Women behind two hot indie films share secrets at Vancouver fest". Canadian Press, October 3, 2005.
  4. ^ "Genie Award nominations". Peterborough Examiner, January 26, 2006.
  5. ^ Victoria Ahearn (September 12, 2022). "Cameras roll on True West Films' first scripted series The Drop". Retrieved 2024-01-30.