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Wisecracks
''Wisecracks'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Gail Singer and released in 1991. The film profiles a number of women who were active in comedy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Joy Behar, Phyllis Diller, Ellen DeGeneres, Whoopi Goldberg, Geri Jewell, Paula Poundstone, Sandra Shamas and Jenny Jones. The film premiered at the 1991 Festival of Festivals. Singer's comedy film '' True Confections'' was also screened at the same festival, making her the first filmmaker in the festival's history to have both a documentary and a narrative fiction film screened at the festival in the same year. The film subsequently received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992.H. J. Kirchhoff, "French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 14, 1992. References External links * * Wisecracks' at the National Film Board of Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( ; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the sitcom ''Ellen'' from 1994 to 1998, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for " The Puppy Episode". She also hosted the syndicated television talk show, ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' from 2003 to 2022, for which she received 33 Daytime Emmy Awards. Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s and included a 1986 appearance on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''. As a film actress, DeGeneres starred in ''Mr. Wrong'' (1996), ''EDtv'' (1999), and '' The Love Letter'' (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney/Pixar animated films ''Finding Nemo'' (2003) and '' Finding Dory'' (2016); for ''Finding Nemo'', she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. In 2010, she served as a judge on the ninth season of ''American Idol''. She starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Dirse
Zoe Dirse is a Canadian cinematographer, film director, writer and professor. She is best known for her cinematography work for Studio D under the National Film Board of Canada, the first government-funded film studio in the world dedicated to women filmmakers. Career Before her work in film and television, Dirse earned a degree in psychology and teaching at the University of Toronto. While in university, she took some theoretical film courses and fell in love with French New Wave cinema. When she began her career in the film industry in 1979, she was one of only two female camera assistants in IATSE 644. Her first “break” in her career began when she was called to work by producer Christa Singer on the documentary ''Adoption Stories'' for TVOntario. Brought in as an assistant, Dirse was hired to help the teenage subjects of the documentary feel “less threatened” by having her behind the camera. After shooting ''Adoption Stories,'' Dirse began working on commercial sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Confections
''True Confections'' is a 1991 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gail Singer. Based on Sondra Gotlieb's Stephen Leacock Award-winning novel ''True Confections'', it stars Leslie Hope as Verna Miller, a young Jewish woman growing up in the 1950s who rebels against the rigid gender role assigned to women in her era due to her ahead-of-her-time sensibilities and life aspirations."Singer: Cracking wise and felling lies". ''Toronto Star'', September 2, 1991. Rather than a strict adaptation of Gotlieb's novel, Singer added some material to the screenplay that was more reflective of her own experiences in that era. The film's cast also includes Judah Katz, Chandra West, Jeff Pustil, Jill Riley, Stewart Bick and Daniel Kash."True Confections shows there's more to Winnipeg than boys". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 25, 1991. The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1991, and was screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals in September. Singer's docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh. Diller was one of the first female comics to become a household name in the U.S., credited as an influence by Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, and Ellen DeGeneres, among others.Phyllis Diller Dies; Groundbreaking Comedian Is Dead at 95 ''People'', Stephen M. Silverman, August 20, 2012, retrieved November 4, 2015 She had a large gay following and is considered a gay icon. She was also one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13th Genie Awards
The 13th annual Genie Awards were held on November 22, 1992, and honoured Canadian films released in late 1991 and 1992. They were dominated by the Canadian/British/Japanese co-production ''Naked Lunch''. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto."Canadian films in the spotlight". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 21, 1992. The ceremony was originally slated to be hosted by John Candy, but he pulled out in a dispute over advance advertising which he perceived as making fun of his weight; Leslie Nielsen instead stepped in as host. Nominations were announced on October 13."French-Canadian films steal Genie show". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 14, 1992. Nominees and winners The Genie Award winner in each category is shown in bold text. References External links Genie Awards 1992 on imdb {{Canadian Screen Awards 13 Genie Genie Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies (with the broader meaning of spirit or demon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Stikeman
Virginia "Ginny" Stikeman is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer and editor known for her documentary work. Stikeman had a 30-year career at the National Film Board of Canada, and led its women's unit, Studio D, from 1990 until its closure in 1996. Biography Ginny Stikeman was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. She graduated from McGill University with a BA in English and French. After a time working in Paris and then in Montreal for ''Time'' magazine, she joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1968 as a researcher for Challenge for Change. She later trained as an editor and moved to Studio D, the women's unit, in 1975 as an editor and producer. Career Among her more noteworthy achievements at Studio D, Stikeman was the co-producer on the award-winning documentary '' Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives''. She co-directed ''Sisters in the Struggle'' with Dionne Brand. She was also the producer and editor of ''Older, Stronger, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, author, actor, interviewer, and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.'' She is the host of the Starburns Audio podcast (previously a member of the Maximum Fun network) ''Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone'', which is the successor to the National Public Radio program ''Live from the Poundstone Institute.'' She is a frequent panelist on NPR's weekly news quiz show '' Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me'', and was a recurring guest on the network's '' A Prairie Home Companion'' variety program during Garrison Keillor's years as host. Early life Poundstone was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the daughter of Vera, a housewife, and Jack Poundstone, an engineer. Her family moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, about a month after her birth. Career Pounds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri Jewell
Geraldine Ann "Geri" Jewell (born September 13, 1956) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, diversity consultant, and motivational speaker, noted for roles on the 1980s sitcom '' The Facts of Life'' and the mid-2000s western '' Deadwood''. She is known as being one of the first people on a TV sitcom with cerebral palsy, and she has helped advocate for the disabled throughout her career. She has also been an advocate for the LGBTQIA community since publicly coming out as lesbian in her 2011 autobiography. Biography From Buffalo, New York, Jewell was born to Olga and Jack Jewell. She has two brothers, David and Fred; her sister Gloria passed away in 2016.Jewell, Geri. “Camila Tardif Interviews Geri Jewell.” Interview by Camila Tardif. April 2, 2021. Due to a car accident Jewell's mother was in while pregnant with her, Jewell was born three months early. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at eighteen months old. Growing up, Jewell's parents were determined not to raise h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Behar
Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar (; née Occhiuto) is an American comedian, television host, actress, and writer. She co-hosts the ABC daytime talk show '' The View'', where she is the only original panelist still regularly appearing. She hosted '' The Joy Behar Show'' on HLN from 2009 to 2011 and '' Joy Behar: Say Anything!'' on Current TV, from 2012'Joy Behar: Say Anything' to premiere Sept. 4 . until the channel switched formats in August 2013. Behar's latest weekly late-night talk show, '''', aired on |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Feature Length Documentary
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Feature Length Documentary. First presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, it became part of the Genie Awards in 1980Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . and the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards in 2013. 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film The Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film (french: Prix Iris du meilleur film documentaire) is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best documentary film made within the cinema of Que ... References {{Canadian Screen Awards * Canadian documentary film awards Feature documentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Toronto International Film Festival
The 16th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 5 and September 14, 1991. Jodie Foster's directorial debut film Little Man Tate, premiered in the ''Gala Presentation'' at the festival. Awards Programme Gala Presentation *''The Fisher King'' by Terry Gilliam *'' Life on a String'' by Chen Kaige *''Days of Being Wild'' by Wong Kar-wai *''My Own Private Idaho'' by Gus Van Sant *''Barton Fink'' by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen *'' Singapore Sling'' by Nikos Nikolaidis *''Raise the Red Lantern'' by Zhang Yimou *''Little Man Tate'' by Jodie Foster *''Daughters of the Dust'' by Julie Dash *''My Father Is Coming'' by Monika Treut *''Delicatessen'' by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro *''The Indian Runner'' by Sean Penn *'' The Double Life of Veronique'' by Krzysztof Kieślowski *''Hear My Song'' by Peter Chelsom *''Prospero's Books'' by Peter Greenaway *'' The Hours and Times'' by Christopher Münch *'' Black Robe'' by Bruce Beresfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Fresco (cinematographer)
Robert Fresco (born 1943) is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker.Emelie Peacock"B.C. filmmaker brings life with autistic son to the small screen" ''Abbotsford News'', February 28, 2018. He is most noted for his 1981 documentary film '' Steady as She Goes'', for which he won the Bijou Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary and was nominated for Best Director of a Documentary, and as a Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1984 for his video for The Parachute Club's " Rise Up". His other documentary films have included ''Mudflats Living'', ''The Salvage Prince'', ''Easter in Iglooik: Peter's Story'' and ''Love, Hope and Autism'', and as a music video director he also did noteworthy work for Martha and the Muffins, including the videos for " Black Stations/White Stations" and "Cooling the Medium". As a cinematographer his credits have included the films ''Winter Kept Us Warm'', ''Firebird 2015 AD'', '' Poetry in Motion'', ''Comic Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
