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=Clio Barnard=

Clio Barnard is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor, an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. In 2013 she was hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema for her film The Selfish Giant, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival.

Education
She graduated with a First Class B.A. (Hons) with Distinction in Fine Art and received a post-graduate diploma in Electronic Imaging. In 1988, her video Dirt and Science toured internationally as part of the ICA Biennial of Independent Film & Video, curated by Tilda Swinton.

Teaching
Clio Barnard is a Reader in the Film Studies Department and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Kent. She teaches the BA practical filmmaking modules and supervises research students. Bernard designed Representing Actuality, a 12 week practical filmmaking course which explores the relationship between fiction and documentary film forms and language.

Awards
Her critically acclaimed debut feature, The Arbor (2010) won several awards including Best New Documentary Filmmaker at Tribeca Film Festival New York, Best Newcomer and Sutherland Awards at The London Film Festival, Douglas Hickox Award at British Independent Film Awards, The Guardian First Film Award, Best Screenplay at the London Evening Standard Film Awards, the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival Innovation Award and the Jean Vigo Award for Best Direction at Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. She was nominated for the BAFTA Outstanding Debut Award in February 2011.

Critical Reception
Critics have likened Barnard's gritty yet lyrical work to that of Ken Loach. Time Out called The Selfish Giant "Kes revisited in a post-Thatcher northern England".