Jeff Barnaby

pJeff Barnaby was an awardwinning director of narrative films and music videos but is best known for his short films that used unsettling elements of the horror and scifi genres to explore aspects of alienation and colonialism A multidisciplined artist he won several awards for his art work poetry short stories and films His production emFile Under Miscellaneousem was adapted from the poem emWalking Aroundem by Pablo Neruda and premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival In 2007 emThe Colonyem premiered at TIFF and was named by the festival as one of Canadas Top Ten Short Films of the year It went on to win the award for Best Canadian Short Drama at the imagineNATIVE Film amp Media Arts Festival and Best Short Film at the Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia and at the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival CBC Television commissioned Barnabys emFrom Cherry Englishem which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won three Golden Sheaf Awards at the Yorkton Film Festival Barnaby received his BFA in film production from Concordia University in Montreal Quebec where he made his home emRhymes for Young Ghoulsem was his debut feature and it had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festivalbr br He was 46 when he died of cancer in Montralbr br br p