Elizabeth Klinck is a visual researcher and clearance specialist in the Canadian and international documentary film industry. Some of the notable projects she has worked on include Werner Herzog's Into the Inferno, Thorsten Schütte's Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, Barry Arvich's Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story, Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell, Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir's Innsaei and Neil Diamond's Reel Injun.
She was nominated for an Emmy Award in the craft of research, and three times for Best Visual Researcher at the FOCAL Awards in the United Kingdom. She has also won the 2014, 2015 and 2017 Barbara Sears Award for Best Visual Research from the Canadian Screen Awards. In 2021, Elizabeth won her fourth Barbara Sears Award for her work on Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust.Rachel West, "‘Canada’s Drag Race’, ‘Property Brothers’, Jann Arden Among Canadian Screen Awards Lifestyle And Reality Winners". ET Canada, May 17, 2021. In 2015 she won a Prix Gemeaux for her work on Apocalypse World One and in 2010 she won a Gemini for Best Visual Research for her work on Reel Injun. She has also won a Yorkton Golden Sheaf award and was honored with the FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. She is the founding chairperson of the Visual Researchers' Society of Canada.
Awards Year AwardFilm/Television ProgramCo-Winner2008 FOCAL Lifetime Achievement Award2008 Yorkton Golden Sheaf for Best Research The Nature of Things: "The Science of the Senses - Touch" 2010 Gemini for Best Visual ResearchReel InjunLaura Blaney 2011 FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production ]Reel InjunLaura Blaney2014 Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchQuality Balls: The David Steinberg Story2014 DOC Star Award Documentary Organization of Canada2015Gémeaux for Best Research Apocalypse World War OneValerie Combard2015Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchApocalypse World War OneValerie Combard2017Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchHow to Change the WorldElizabeth Etherington2017FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts ProductionEat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words2019Canadian Screen Award - Academy Board of Director's Tribute2021Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchCheating Hitler: Surviving the HolocaustElspeth Domville, Monica Penner
Nominations YearAward Film/Television ProgramCo-Researcher2002Gemini Award for Best Biographical Documentary Program Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the Twentieth Century2005 FOCAL Award Nominated for Footage Researcher of the Year2006 Emmy Award Nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Craft: Research Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She2010Gemini for Best Visual ResearchReel InjunLaura Blaney 2011 Best Use of Footage in a Factual ProductionReel Injun Laura Blaney2011 FOCAL Award Nominated for Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year2014 FOCAL Award Nominated for Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment ProductionQuality Balls: The David Steinberg Story 2014 FOCAL Award Nominated for Best Use of Footage in a Factual ProductionArctic Defenders 2014 FOCAL Award Nominated for Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year2014 Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story2015 Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchThe Secret Disco Revolution2015 Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchApocalypse World War OneValerie Combard2015 Gémeaux for Best Research Current AffairsApocalypse World War OneValerie Combard2017 Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchHow to Change the WorldElizabeth Etherington2017Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchClaude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah Adam Benzine, Leslie Swift, Lindsay Zarwell2017FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts ProductionEat That Question - Frank Zappa in His Own Words2017FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in a Cinema ReleaseEat That Question - Frank Zappa in His Own Words2017FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage about the Natural World Into the Inferno2018Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchQuebec My Country Mon Pays2018Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchThe Devil's HornElspeth Domville 2019Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchYou are Here: A Come From Away Story2021Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchCheating Hitler: Surviving the HolocaustElspeth Domville, Monica Penner2021Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual ResearchGordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
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