Biografia
Elizabeth Klinck is an archival producer, visual researcher, and clearance specialist with experience on hundreds of international films and television projects that have received Emmy, FOCAL, Peabody, and Oscar awards. Her notable work includes Into The Inferno, Surgeon's Cut, Cheating Hitler, Anthropocene, Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, How To Change The World, and Stories We Tell.
A Queen's University graduate, she has taught at Metropolitan University in Toronto and conducted research and rights clearance workshops at film festivals, markets, universities, colleges, and international conferences such as Berlinale, IDFA, Sunnyside of the Doc, Realscreen, Sheffield DocFest, Documentary Campus, The World Congress of Science & Factual Producers, and Banff Media Summit. Elizabeth has been nominated for an Emmy in the Craft of Research and received three nominations for Best Visual Researcher at the UK’s FOCAL Awards. She has won Best Visual Research Awards at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, 2017, 2016, 2014, and 2013, as well as the 2015 Gemeaux, 2010 Gemini Awards, a Yorkton Golden Sheaf award, and the 2009 FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2019, Elizabeth received the Canadian Screen Awards Board of Director's tribute for her contributions to Canadian film and television. She has served on the boards of WIFT Toronto and Impact Media Summit and is the founding chairperson of the Visual Researchers' Society of Canada. She sits on the Executive Committee for FOCAL International in the UK and is a member of DOC Toronto. Since 1988, she has been married to location sound recording engineer John Martin, and they have two children.
