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Karen began her career as a producer and then as a writer/producer. From there, she worked as an Associate Producer at the Toronto International Film Festival for the show REEL TO REAL and spent three years in Toronto working for Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox and Alliance Atlantis. She graduated with a Certificate of Recommendation from the Foundation Film Program I n1996. Karen was born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada and attended the Vancouver Film School. Her work though, seems more typically dramatic in nature and more and more seems to be taking on social issues within the context of her narratives. She has done several other shorts as well as a PSA promoting reading and education in Canada as well as a comedy called HULA. The first, Infinite Moments, anot her short film about a woman dealing with the night she was raped, has also received rave reviews and acclaim. This is Karen Nielsen’s second major film offering as a director. Drugs are used to escape reality, but the high is only imaginary and the consequences ultimately dire. In showing the drug victim’s pe rceptions in this manner, it makes it easier for all of us to understand the deadly pull of drug use. One world is mundane and ugly the other is lyrical and portrayed through imaginative dance and sensual dancers. The other illusionary world is idyllic and passionate, as seen through the cloud of drug intoxication. One is her real but very harsh existence where she cannot escape the misery or the consequences of her drug addiction. Karen Nielsen of Blue Finn Productions wrote, directed and produced the short film Perceptions, an intense, drama tic narrative about drug abuse and its terrifying consequences but seen through the tragic, double vision of the woman at the center of the conflict-she exists in two worlds. This week, as promised, I profile another of the Aha! Blogolicious! Media Award winners.
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Interview with Karen Nielsen, writer/director/producer of Innovation Winner, a short film using dance melded with narrative, Perceptions Profile/Interview with 2006 Aha! Blogolicious! Media Award Winner Karen Nielsen ( Perceptions, the movie)