Daniel Roher’s documentary, Navalny, is up for best documentary. Here is seen interviewing a subject for a previous film.
Roher’s documentary, Navalny, won the 2023 Oscar for best documentary. He reflects on his early work and finding the courage to tell these stories
Raised in Toronto and speaking from Los Angeles, the young filmmaker mused on his early start and what led him to this moment.Director Daniel Roher on the red carpet for the film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 5, 2019. Using the camcorder he received as a gift, Roher's first movies were fun projects made with friends, shooting around Toronto, learning about cameras.
Roher credits the Etobicoke School of the Arts with introducing him to filmmaking and cinema. After graduating, he went to school in the U.S. for a few semesters on a scholarship; he didn't like it, but he started making documentaries there. He was rarely disappointed. Roher learned that everyone has a story, and his job as a filmmaker was to find the ones with a "visual language" worthy of film. Some stories are best told in articles, books or podcasts, he explained, but he was looking for big-screen cinematic moments., a CBC Short Doc, Roher followed his guitar teacher, Jessica Stuart, to Japan as she searched for a long-lost childhood friend who had stopped responding to her letters.
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