TuTuMUCH
9 Girls 4 Weeks 1 Dream
Vonnie Von Helmolt, Co-Producer
With an international reputation for producing award-winning films, Vonnie Von Helmolt
has produced and co-produced a variety of features, television movies, series,
documentaries and specials over the last 20 years.
Awards include an International Emmy, Canadian Geminis, Manitoba Blizzards, and
major international film festival awards in Canada, Europe and Asia. Nominations
include US Cable Ace awards, Banff Television Rockies, and numerous international
television awards.
Her dance feature drama Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary, directed by noted auteur
Guy Maddin was named one of Canada's Top Ten Feature Films, and made the Village
Voice NEW YORK Critics list of the top10 films of 2003, in addition to winning numerous
international film festival awards, Geminis, Blizzards and an International Emmy.
IMDb recently listed Dracula as 8th best horror film ever made out of a list of 70.
The Tale of the Magic Flute, a dazzling dance special for the CBC’s Opening Night was
nominated for a Rockie award at the Banff Television Festival in 2006, and her coproduction, with Merit Motion Pictures, of the three-hour documentary miniseries Ballet
Girls, aired on BRAVO! as a 2006 Christmas Special and was nominated for a Gemini
award. She PARTNERED again with MMP on another special about the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet Professional Division School for Bravo! titled Ballet High. The two companies
recently completed "TuTuMUCH" a feature film releasing theatrically across Canada in
2010.
Von Helmolt was the founding chair of both Film Training Manitoba and the Manitoba
District Council of the Director's Guild of Canada. She remains on the executive of Film
Training Manitoba and Chairs the Policy Committee of the Manitoba Motion Picture
Industry Association. She recently joined the board of the Winnipeg Arts Council.