Gina HaraHU/QC
Gina Hara is a Hungarian-Canadian filmmaker and artist. She holds an MA in intermedia, an MFA in film production and has worked in different media with regard to film, video, new media, gaming and design. Her research focuses on marginalized narratives in the context of technology, specifically social media and games culture. Hara’s artworks have been featured by different institutions including the New Museum in New York, Budapest Kunsthalle and the City of Montréal. Waning (2011), her first fiction film, was nominated for Best Canadian Short at the Toronto International Film Festival. Your Place or Minecraft? (2016) is her machinima docu web series about game studies and is available on YouTube. Hara’s feature length documentary, Geek Girls (2017), explores nerd culture from women’s perspective and was in theatres in Canada and Australia in 2018. Geek Girls is currently available on the website of the National Film Board of Canada, while it is distributed by Women Make Movies in the USA and South-America. Her most recent work, Sidings of the Afternoon won the Critics’ Choice Award at the Milan Machinima Film Festival 2021. Hara lives in Montréal, where she is the creative director of the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre.
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