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A native of Canada, Leonard Yakir studied film and photography at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. His work has been shown at numerous galleries including the prestigious Art Gallery of Ontario and is in the permanent collection of the National Film Board of Canada.
1200+ Dir: Directed by Leonard Yakir. Former Grand Chief Sheila North investigates the unsolved murder of one of the 1200 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada.
A film about #MMIWG, 1200+ is a documentary featuring Indigenous Leader Sheila North, Directed by Leonard Yakir and Co-produced by Sheila North and Leonard Yakir. Former Grand Chief Sheila North was gifted a diary kept by the foster parents of 17-year-old MMIWG2S+ victim Cherisse Houle.
Our eldest son Philip became an educator while Leonard is a photographer in New York. I have been blessed with six grandchildren, two each from Philip, Leonard and the late Norman, and presently three great grandchildren. After sixty-one years of marriage, Rose passed away.
Leonard Yakir lives and works in Park Slope, Brooklyn. A native of Canada, Leonard studied film and photography at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. His work has been shown at numerous galleries including the prestigious Art Gallery of Ontario and is in the permanent collection of the National Film Board of Canada.
Mar 6, 2013 · Before there were Indiegogo campaigns and the iPhone 5, Leonard Yakir spent years preparing his films the old fashioned way. “You can make a movie with your iPhone now in five minutes,” Yakir states emphatically during a Skype conversation from his home in Brooklyn, New York.
At the Preview of the film “1200+” , March 14. A powerful film about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, produced by Leonard Yakir and Grand Chief Sheila North. Panelists included...
