Danièle J. Suissa is a Moroccan-born film and television director, who has worked predominantly in

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and

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. Donald Martin, "This director a very mobile television unit". ''

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'', October 29, 1983. She is most noted for her 1989 television film ''No Blame'', a drama about a woman testing positive for

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. Born in

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and raised in

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, she began her career as a theatre director for the

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before moving to Canada in her early 20s. In Canada she began working on television and theatrical films, including '' Kate Morris, Vice President'', ''Divine Sarah'', '' The Morning Man'' and '' Martha, Ruth and Edie''. ''No Blame'' won the Red Cross Award at the 1989

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, and Suissa received a

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nomination for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the

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in 1989."This year's TV Gemini nominations". ''

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'', October 26, 1989.

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* Canadian women film directors Canadian women television directors Film directors from Quebec Moroccan emigrants to Canada Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-film-director-stub