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Fifth Annual Festival

04:20 min
Music Video
Director: Sophie Muller


Winner of the Citizen Engagement Award
Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Foundation

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Sophie Muller, Director

Acclaimed music video director, Sophie Muller, has completed over 150 music videos and concert films throughout her prolific and celebrated career. Having directed such iconic and influential videos as No Doubt’s Don’t Speak, Blur’s Song II, Sade’s No Ordinary Love and Annie Lennox’s Why, Sophie’s unique style of vintage glamour, stark beauty and compelling narratives is in high demand.

After earning a Master’s in Film at the Royal College of Art, Sophie began working with Billy Poveda and John Stewart of Oil Factory. After her first videos for Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics, Sophie has since grown to be one of the most prominent pop music video directors in the world. She has won several awards, including a Grammy, MTV and CMT Awards, the Brit Award, a Music Week Award, and the MVPA Director of the Year Award in 2001. 

Sophie’s extensive body of work includes music videos for Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Garbage, Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Weezer, Coldplay, Pink, Loretta Lynn, The Cure, Nelly Furtado, Maroon 5, The Strokes, and The Killers to name only a few. She has also directed longform music films for Sarah McLachlan, No Doubt, Sinead O’Connor and Sade.

Sophie continues to garner accolades for her work as a director with another nomination for Best Director of the Year at this year’s MVPA awards, along with 3 other videos up for top honors.

Singer/Songwriter Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1968. She studied classical piano, guitar and voice and was first discovered fronting a new wave band in 1985 by the then-fledgling Vancouver-based company Nettwerk Records. The label signed the 19-year-old singer to a recording contract in 1987.

McLachlan has released eight albums with Nettwerk, beginning in 1988 with Touch, followed by Solace (1991), Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1994), The Freedom Sessions (1994), Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff (1996), Surfacing (1997), Mirrorball (1999), and Remixed (2001).

Over her 14-year career, McLachlan has sold over 22 million records worldwide and is a 3-time Grammy Award Winner. Sarah founded the Lilith Fair tour, which brought together 2 million people over its 3-year history and raised more than $7 million for charities. In 2000, Sarah began the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach Program, which provides free music education classes to inner city youths whose school music programs have been affected by budget cuts. She has received numerous entertainment and achievement distinctions, the most recent of which was The Order of Canada and The Order of British Columbia. Other distinctions include the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award, for advancing the careers of women in music.