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Five Feminist Minutes
''Five Feminist Minutes'' is a Canadian short film anthology released in 1990 by the National Film Board of Canada. The films were produced independently for the 15th anniversary of Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Regards de Femmes and other NFB production studios in Canada. It consists of sixteen shorts with an approximately five minute duration for each. Every short has its own director(s) and staff and range across a multitude of genres. Production In 1989, The NFB announced that it would be accepting ideas for short films from female film-makers. Finalists were to receive $10,000 and five rolls of film and free developing services and the loan of NFB equipment. In an interview with Mary Armstrong, a Studio D producer, she explains that "We're on the lookout for women who have good ideas, the determination to make films and the ingenuity to see a film through to completion." Admissions were desired from both established and new contributor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christene Browne
Christene Browne (born 1965 in Saint Kitts) is a Canadian director and writer. Browne is the first black woman to write, produce and direct a feature film in Canada. Biography Born in St. Kitts in the Caribbean, Browne moved with her family to Canada in 1970. She spent her formative years in Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest low-income community. It was in this Toronto community where the seeds of Browne's filmmaker career were planted. She participated and then led the Regent Park Video workshop project and contributed to the production of many documentary videos about the community. It was during this time Browne decided to go to film school. She attended the film program at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. After leaving Ryerson, she worked for a small film company before starting her own production company, Syncopated Productions in 1990. Her first two films, ''Brothers in Music'' and ''No Choices'' (a segment of movie '' Five Feminist Minutes''), debuted at the Toronto I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Bear
Shirley Bear (born May 16, 1936) is a Tobique First Nation artist, traditional herbalist, poet, and activist. She is an original member of the Wabanaki language group of New Brunswick. Background The daughter of Susan Paul-Bear and Noel Bear Jr., she was born on the Negootgook reserve in New Brunswick, attended the Collège Maillet in Saint-Basile and went on to study photography and painting in New Hampshire. In 1968, she received a Ford Foundation fellowship. Artistry Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Clement Cormier Gallery in Moncton, at the Université Saint-Louis in Edmundston, as well as in group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. In 2011, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery organized a major retrospective exhibition called Nekt wikuhpon ehpit — Once there lived a woman, The Painting, Poetry and Politics of Shirley Bear (curated by Terry Graff). Her work is included in the collections of the National Indian Art Centre, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Carleto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Short Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 '' Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s Feminist Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 '' Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Board Of Canada Series
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Canadian Anthology Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Films
The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below. Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1990 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * March 2 - ''The Hunt for Red October'' is released. It is the first film in Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" franchise and is met with critical and blockbuster commercial success. * March 23 – '' Pretty Woman'' is released and grosses $463 million, making Julia Roberts a worldwide star. * March 30 – ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is released to massive box office success. At the time, it is the highest-grossing independent film in history. * May 25 – Universal Pictures unveils a new opening logo with music composed by James Horner, which debuts on '' Back to the Future Part III''. It is the first change to the Universal opening logo in 27 years. * June 1 – CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in '' Total Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa Citizen
The ''Ottawa Citizen'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History Established as ''The Bytown Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the ''Citizen'' in 1851. The newspaper's original motto, which has recently been returned to the editorial page, was ''Fair play and Day-Light''. The paper has been through a number of owners. In 1846, Harris sold the paper to John Bell (journalist), John Bell and Henry J. Friel. Robert Bell (1821-73), Robert Bell bought the paper in 1849. In 1877, Charles Herbert Mackintosh, the editor under Robert Bell, became publisher. In 1879, it became one of several papers owned by the Southam Newspapers, Southam family. It remained under Southam until the chain was purchased by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. In 2000, Black sold most of his Canadian holdings, including the flagship National Post to CanWest Global. The editorial view of the ''Citizen'' has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Toronto International Film Festival
The 15th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1990. Gerald Pratley introduced ''Cinematheque Ontario'' now known as TIFF Cinematheque at the festival, when the festival assumed management of the Ontario Film Institute. Awards Programme Gala Presentation *''Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film), Cyrano de Bergerac'' by Jean-Paul Rappeneau *''An Angel at My Table'' by Jane Campion *''Open Doors (film), Open Doors'' by Gianni Amelio *''The Match Factory Girl'' by Aki Kaurismäki *''Reversal of Fortune'' by Barbet Schroeder *''The Grifters (film), The Grifters'' by Stephen Frears *''The Krays (film), The Krays'' by Peter Medak *''¡Ay Carmela!'' by Carlos Saura *''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' by Tom Stoppard *''The Hot Spot'' by Dennis Hopper *''The Reflecting Skin (film), The Reflecting Skin'' by Philip Ridley *''Szürkület'' by György Fehér *''Paris by Night (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto International Film Festival Award For Best Canadian Short Film
The Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film, formerly also known as the National Film Board of Canada, NFB John Spotton Award, is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to a film judged to be the best Canadian short film of the festival. As of 2017, the award is sponsored by International Watch Company and known as the "IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film". Winners References {{TIFF Toronto International Film Festival awards, Best Canadian Short Film Short film awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Pelletier
Andrée Pelletier (born August 24, 1951) is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and film director. As an actress, she is a five-time Canadian Film Award and Genie Award nominee, receiving nominations for Best Actress at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for her performance as Marie-Anne Gaboury in the film ''Marie-Anne'', at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for '' The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire)'', at the 4th Genie Awards in 1983 for ''Latitude 55°'' and at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for ''Walls'', and a Best Supporting Actress nominee at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for '' Bach and Broccoli (Bach et Bottine)''. She later turned to screenwriting, including the films ''The Peanut Butter Solution'', ''Nénette'' and ''Karmina'', and directed the films ''Anchor Zone'' and ''Voodoo Dolls''. Born in Montreal, Quebec, she is the daughter of Gérard Pelletier, a former journalist and diplomat."Festival of Festivals features three of the Etrog nominess for Best Actress". ''The Globe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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