ABBEY JACK NEIDIK Director, Producer
DLI Productions, President

Abbey Neidik is an established Director and Producer with a career spanning 35 years. He has worked on over 70 films, including two Academy Award nominees.

In 1980 Neidik and his partner Irene Angelico formed DLI Productions. Together they produced and directed Dark Lullabies / Berceuses Sombres which has been shown in 26 countries around the world and won numerous first prizes and prestigious awards.

Neidik is the winner of two Canadian Genie Awards for A Song For Tibet, and Volcano: An Inquiry Into The Life And Death Of Malcolm Lowry.

In 1992, he directed Between The Solitudes / Entre Solitudes, which was nominated for two Gemeaux Awards for Best Documentary and Best Editing.

1998 saw the release of two highly successful DLI features. The Love Prophet and the Children of God is an inside look at one of today's most controversial religious cults and was awarded a Gold Plaque in Chicago. The Cola Conquest, a three-part documentary special, garnered Best Documentary Series by an Independent at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, a Silver Hugo in Chicago, a Gold Apple in San Francisco, a Gemini nomination for Best Documentary Series and a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary or Series.

The Journey Home: A Romanian Adoption, co-produced and directed by Neidik in 2000, is a tender and emotional film about Romanian orphans a decade after the fall of Ceausescu.

In 2003, Neidik co-directed and co-produced She Got Game: Behind the Scenes of the Women's Tennis Tour, a unique, behind-the-scenes look at women's tennis that has already received four international awards.

Current projects include Vendetta Song, which examines the tradition of honour killings of rural Kurdish tribes in Turkey; Inside the Great Magazines, a three-part special about the inner workings of the magazine industry and the people who create them. Neidik recently completed Unbreakable Minds, a poignant film that aims to de-stigmatize and humanize mental illness.

FILM AWARDS

2008 Hugo Television Awards - Chicago Film Festival *Merit Prize for Social Political Documentary

2005 Quebec Film Critics Association Best Medium Length Documentary, Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois

2004 Gold Aurora Award, Best Documentary

2003 Chris Statuette, Columbus International Film Festival

Guirlande d`Honneur Award, FICTS (Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs

Best Documentary - Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival

1999 Best Documentary Series by an Independent, Hot Docs

Gold Apple, National Education Media Network

Gemini Nomination, Best Documentary Series

1998 Silver Hugo, Chicago Int'l Television Competition

Gold Plaque, Chicago International Television Competition

1993 Les Prix Gemeaux, Montreal (Best Documentary, Best Editing),

1992 Genie for Best Documentary

Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival

First Prize, Hawaii Film Festival

1991 Genie Nomination

1989 Memorable Film, World Television Festival, Tokyo

1986 Red Ribbon, American Film Festival

Canada Council Grant

1985 First Prize, International Film Festival of Mannheim

Special Prize for Social Political Engagement, International Film Festival of Mannheim

Educational Jury Award, International Film Festival of Mannheim

1976 Genie Award, Best Sound Editing

Inside The Great Magazines (2005- In Post-Production)
A three-part special about the inner workings of the magazine industry and the people who create them.
Producer

Vendetta Song (2005)
Examines the tradition of honour killings of rural Kurdish tribes in Turkey.
Producer

Unbreakable Minds (2004)
A poignant film that aims to de-stigmatize and humanize mental illness.
Director/Producer

She Got Game (2003)
90 minute documentary on behind the scenes look at the Women's Professional Tennis Tour.
Awards:
Chris Statuette, Columbus International Film Festival
Director/Producer

The Journey Home: A Romanian Adoption (2000)
A one-hour documentary following an adoptive family back to Romania ten years after Ceausescu.
Director/Producer
Broadcasts: CBC (Canada 1998), VRT (Belgium1992), DEC (Canada 1988), YLE 2 (Finland 1990), SVT (Sweden1990)

The Cola Conquest; A Trilogy (1998)
A three-part documentary special about the Coca-Cola company and the Americanization of global culture.
Producer
Awards:
Best Documentary Series by an Independent - Hot Docs
Gold Apple - National Education Media Network
Silver Hugo - Chicago international Television Competition
Best Writing in a Documentary or Series - Gemini Awards
Best Documentary Series - Gemini Nominee
Broadcasts:
Canal Plus France (Africa), ABC (Australia), Ronin Films (Australia), Telepool (Austria), VRT (Belgium), Canal Plus France (Belgium), TV Max/HBO (Czech Republic), Denmark Radio (Denmark), Channel 4 (England), YLE 2 ( Finland), Canal Plus France (France), Telepool (Germany), Spektrum TV (Hungary), Noga Communications LTD (Israel), American Movie Classics (Latin America), Canal 22 Television Metropolitain (Mexico), Ronin Films (New Zealand), NRK (Norway), Canal Plus Poland (Poland) Sogecable (Spain), SVT (Sweden), Telepool (DRS) (Switzerland), Canal Plus France (Switzerland), Chinese Network Television (Taiwan), American Movie Classics (USA), NPS (Netherlands).

The Love Prophet and the Children of God (1998)
A one-hour documentary about a new religious movement known as "The Family."
Director/Producer
Awards:
Gold Plaque - Chicago International Television Competition "Best Biography of the Year"
Broadcasts:
SBS (Australia 1999), MTV3 (Finland 1998) France 2 (France1999) Noga Communications (Israel1999), Globosat (Brazil 1998)

A Song For Tibet (1993)
An hour documentary on Tibetan refugees and the visit of the Dalai Lama to Canada.
Awards:
Genie - Best Documentary of the Year
Yorkton - Best Documentary of the Year
Hawaii - Best Documentary of the Year

Entre Solitudes / Between The Solitudes (1992)
A documentary directed by Abbey Neidik about Josh Freed's quest to discover the future of Anglos in the new Québec.
Director
Awards:
Nominated in two categories - Les Prix Gémeaux, Montréal

Dark Lullabies / Berceuses Sombres (1985)
A documentary feature on the effects of the Holocaust on the next generation.
Co-director/Co-producer/Co-editor
Awards:
Most Memorable Film - World Television Festival, Tokyo
Red Ribbon - American Film Festival
First Prize - International Film Festival of Mannheim
Special Prize, Most socially-Politically Engaging Film - International Film Festival of Mannheim
Ecumenical Jury award - International film Festival of Mannheim