Miriam Needoba

Miriam Needoba is an artist and filmmaker based in Nelson, British Columbia. She is Director of the independent media production company Small Town Films Inc. Miriam graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a BFA in 2001, and lived in Vancouver until recently. She has attended programs at the Banff New Media Institute, the Berlinale Talent Campus and was one of the 2009 participants at the Astral Media Emerging Documentary Filmmakers Scholarship Program at the Hotdocs festival in Toronto. Miriam’s experimental films, videos and new media works have been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally. She has received BC Arts Council production grants for her new media work, and is currently shooting her first documentary film funded by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance and the National Film Board of Canada.