{{Short description|Canadian film and television editor}} '''Arla Agnes Isabella Axelsdotter Saarukka''' (November 28, 1915 – May 9, 2013), commonly known as '''Arla Saare''', was a Canadian film and television editor.<ref name=offscreen>Tim Newman, [https://offscreen.com/view/mediating-collaborations "Mediating Collaborations: Arla Saare, the CBUT Film Unit, and the Emergence of the West Coast School"]. ''Off-Screen'', Volume 18, Issues 11-12 (December 2014).</ref> She was noted for being a two-time Canadian Film Award winner for her work in both sound and picture editing.<ref name=topalovich>Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}.</ref>
Born in Finland, Saare came to Canada with her family in childhood and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.<ref name=townend>Paul Townend, [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/arla-saare "Arla Saare"]. ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 29, 2012.</ref> A graduate of the Vancouver School of Art, she first worked as an x-ray technician at Vancouver General Hospital.<ref name=townend/> She joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1942, working as a negative cutter and in the optical and special effects department, becoming the head of the department by 1945.<ref name=townend/> Saare joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at the launch of CBC Television in 1952, working for the Toronto affiliate CBLT for about a year until transferring back to Vancouver upon the launch of CBUT in 1953.<ref name=offscreen/> In Vancouver, she was a key figure in both the emergence of the CBUT Film Unit as one of the major documentary production houses in Canada and the development of British Columbia's regional film industry.<ref name=offscreen/>
After leaving the CBC in 1967 she worked as a freelance editor for a number of years, predominantly but not exclusively on documentary films.<ref name=townend/> She won the CFA for Best Sound Editing, Non-Feature at the 25th Canadian Film Awards in 1973 for ''The Shield'', and Best Picture Editing, Non Feature at the 26th Canadian Film Awards in 1975 for ''Next Year in Jerusalem''.<ref name=topalovich/> She was also a Genie Award nominee for Best Editing, Non-Feature at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 for ''The Wordsmith'',<ref>Jay Scott, "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 8, 1980.</ref> and Best Editing at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for ''Silence of the North''.<ref>Jay Scott, "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack: Academy lists Genie nominees". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 4, 1982.</ref>
Her other credits include the films ''A Married Couple'', ''Come on Children'', ''Rose's House'', ''Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love'', and ''Who Has Seen the Wind'', as well as two documentary series, ''Mexico'' and ''The National Dream''.<ref name=townend/>
In 1991 she was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Toronto chapter of Women in Film and Television International.<ref>Mark Bastien, "B.C. film editor crowns career with achievement award". ''Vancouver Sun'', March 6, 1991.</ref>
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