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   Acknowledgements

Biographies


The first public showing of a motion picture in Canada took place in 1896 and the first Canadian films were produced the following year. Many of these early films were quite short and showed life and scenery in Canada with the intention of encouraging immigration. Later silent films included newsreels, travelogues and fictional stories.

From May Irwin's appearance in the 1896 short, The Kiss, to director Lynne Stopkewich's 1996 production, Kissed, Canadian women have been involved in making films, both behind and in front of the cameras. Canadian Women in Film profiles the work of influential Canadian women filmmakers from the early 20th century to the present, whose work ranges from the silent films of Nell Shipman to the industrials of Judith Crawley, and from animation work by Evelyn Lambart to documentaries by Anne-Claire Poirier and feature films by Patricia Rozema. We hope you will enjoy learning more about the careers and lives of these and other creative individuals and perhaps be encouraged to seek out their films.

Biographies
Manon Briand  Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Judith Rosemary (Sparks) Crawley   Filmmaker
Jennifer Hodge de Silva  Documentary Filmmaker
Bonnie Sherr Klein  Filmmaker, Author, Disability Rights Activist
Evelyn Lambart  First Female Animator, National Film Board of Canada
Micheline Lanctôt  Director, Writer, Producer, Actor
Marilú Mallet  Filmmaker and Writer
Deepa Mehta  Filmmaker
Alanis Obomsawin  Documentary Filmmaker, Singer, Artist, Educator and Activist
Mary Pickford  Actor, Producer and Businesswoman
Anne-Claire Poirier  Film Editor, Producer, Director
Léa Pool  Filmmaker, Documentary Filmmaker, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Patricia Rozema  Director, Writer and Producer
Kathleen Shannon  Founder and Executive Producer of Studio D, National Film Board
Nell Shipman  Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor
Mina Shum  Director and Writer
Loretta Sarah Todd  Director, Producer, Researcher and Writer
Lindalee Tracey  Filmmaker and Writer
Anne Wheeler  Feature Film Director
Nettie Wild  Documentary Filmmaker

See also: Joyce Wieland, Filmmaker, Mixed Media Artist

Further Research

Acknowledgements

These biographies were researched and written by the following staff of the Reference and Genealogy Division, Library and Archives Canada:

Maria Belanger, Sandra Bell, Don Carter, Andrée Côté, Raymonde Cyrenne, Francine Falardeau, Amy Fisher, Brigitte Fontille, Sara Chatfield, Giovanna Gossage, Sophie Grenier,Veronica Healy, Deborah Lee, Nina Milner, Martin Ruddy, Risë Segall, Tom Tytor, Joan Waiser and Nicole Watier.

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