# Elizabeth Yake

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{{Short description|Canadian film producer}}
'''Elizabeth Yake''' is a Canadian [film producer](/source/film_producer), who is the founder and president of True West Films.<ref name=green>"Producer Yake goes Green in B.C.". ''[The Province](/source/The_Province)'', August 27, 2005.</ref> She is most noted for the films ''[Everything's Gone Green](/source/Everything's_Gone_Green_(film))''<ref name=green/> and ''[It's All Gone Pete Tong](/source/It's_All_Gone_Pete_Tong)'',<ref name=saltspring>"Film producer scripts success story on Saltspring". ''[Victoria Times-Colonist](/source/Victoria_Times-Colonist)'', July 3, 2005.</ref> the latter of which won the [Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film](/source/Toronto_International_Film_Festival_Award_for_Best_Canadian_Film) in 2004<ref>"Women behind two hot indie films share secrets at Vancouver fest". [Canadian Press](/source/Canadian_Press), October 3, 2005.</ref> and was a [Genie Award](/source/Genie_Award) nominee for [Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture](/source/Canadian_Screen_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture) at the [26th Genie Awards](/source/26th_Genie_Awards) in 2006.<ref>"Genie Award nominations". ''[Peterborough Examiner](/source/Peterborough_Examiner)'', January 26, 2006.</ref>

Recent productions include Canadian digital series The Drop, which premiered via [Narcity Canada's](/source/Narcity_Media) YouTube in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 12, 2022 |author=Victoria Ahearn |title=Cameras roll on True West Films' first scripted series The Drop |url=https://playbackonline.ca/2022/09/12/cameras-roll-on-true-west-films-first-scripted-series-the-drop/ |access-date=2024-01-30}}</ref>

== Education ==
Yake was educated at the [University of Guelph](/source/University_of_Guelph), [Ryerson University](/source/Ryerson_University) and [Regent's University London](/source/Regent's_University_London).<ref name=saltspring/> She has also studied at the [Canadian Film Centre](/source/Canadian_Film_Centre).<ref name=saltspring/>

== Career ==
Yake's dramatic films include ''[The Feeler](/source/The_Feeler_(film))'', ''[Shoemaker](/source/Shoemaker_(film))'', ''[Desire](/source/Desire_(2000_film))'', ''Mile Zero'', ''Miss Texas'', ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' and ''Everything's Gone Green''.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} Her documentaries include ''[Hadwin's Judgement](/source/Hadwin's_Judgement)'', ''[Jeff Wall: In Order to Make a Picture](/source/Jeff_Wall%3A_In_Order_to_Make_a_Picture)'', ''[bp: pushing the boundaries](/source/bp%3A_pushing_the_boundaries)'', ''The Dragon's Egg'', ''Mémoire Moire des souvenirs'' and ''Out of the Woods''.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

She was nominated for the [Donald Brittain Award](/source/Donald_Brittain_Award) in 1999 for ''The Dragon's Egg''.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

In 2005 she won the [Leo Award](/source/Leo_Awards), Best Feature Length Drama for ''It's All Gone Pete Tong''<ref>"DJs are in clubs and onscreen". ''[Vancouver Sun](/source/Vancouver_Sun)'', June 4, 2005.</ref> and again in 2007 for ''Everything's Gone Green''.

''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' was voted by ''[Playback](/source/Playback_(magazine))'' one of the ten best films of the 2000s, was nominated for Best Achievement in Production Award at the [British Independent Film Awards](/source/British_Independent_Film_Awards), Best Actor and Best Feature at the [HBO US Comedy Festival](/source/HBO_US_Comedy_Festival) (Aspen), winner of the Audience Award and Best Feature Award at the [Gen Arts Film Festival](/source/Gen_Arts_Film_Festival) in New York.

==Awards and nominations==

* 2016, Nominated for [Canadian Screen Award](/source/Canadian_Screen_Award) for Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary for ''[Hadwin's Judgement](/source/Hadwin's_Judgement)''<ref>{{cite web|title=13 Hot Docs Alumni Nominated for Canadian Screen Awards|url=https://www.hotdocs.ca/news/13-hot-docs-alumni-nominated-for-canadian-screen-awards|website=Hotdocs|access-date=16 January 2018|archive-date=17 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117013239/https://www.hotdocs.ca/news/13-hot-docs-alumni-nominated-for-canadian-screen-awards|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2015, Won Sharon Gibbon Award from Vancouver Women in Film & Television [Spotlight Awards](/source/Spotlight_Awards){{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|id=0945008}}

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