Daniel Roher

Daniel Roher is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario.[1] He is most noted for his 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

The film was also screened at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award.[3] Roher and Eamonn O'Connor were Canadian Screen Award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Canadian Cinema Editors award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020.[4]

Roher previously directed the short documentaries Survivors Rowe,[5] which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017,[6] and Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal, which was a CSA nominee for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.

References
  1. Peter Howell, "‘Five fragile young men’: How Daniel Roher went from young fan of the Band to putting their story on film". Toronto Star, September 5, 2019.
  2. "TIFF 2019 to open with documentary about Canadian rock legend Robbie Robertson". Toronto Star, July 18, 2019.
  3. Alyssa Noel, "Whistler Film Festival hands out awards". Pique Newsmagazine, December 14, 2019.
  4. Lauren Malyk, "Canadian Cinema Editors name 2020 nominees". Playback, April 8, 2020.
  5. "From despair to redemption: The remarkable survivors". CBC Indigenous, March 2, 2015.
  6. "2017 Canadian Screen Awards nominees revealed". Global News, January 17, 2017.


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