Previous Work:

Genetic Technologies
Consultant, English-language interviewer.
Films directed by Louise Vandelac and Karl Parent.
These films have won awards in the United States, Canada and France.
Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada

Main basse sur les gènes
[The Genetic Takeover]

 

 

 

Clonage (ou l'art de se faire doubler)
[Cloning (or the Art of Making Doubles)]

 

 

On the Eighth Day: Perfecting Mother Nature
(Hour 1) Making Babies
(Hour 2) Making Perfect Babies
Series consultant. Films directed by Gwynne Basen, Mary Armstrong producer, NFB/Cinefort co-production, 1992. Premiered on CBC television's documentary program, WITNESS.

A Portrait of Nursing
Consultant, directed by Laura Sky, Skyworks, 1990.

Wisecracks
Consultant/treatment; directed by Gail Singer, produced by Signe Jo5hansson. Acclaimed film about women stand-up comics, NFB/Alliance co-production, 1989.

"Issues in Women's Documentary Filmmaking"
Programmer and organizer, writers¹ seminar, NFB, 1989.

Grierson Documentary Seminar: Cinema and Cultural Minorities
Co-moderator (with Magnus Isacsson), Toronto, 1988.

Forum on Television
Consultant on media literacy for TV Ontario's 10-week audience participation series, 1985.

Eight Hours a Day and Donne-toi la chance
Co-director, researcher and writer, educational videos on women in non-traditional jobs for Skyworks and the Ontario Women's Directorate. Writer, print material (introductory brochure and organizers manual). Silver Award of the Information Officer's Forum, 1987.

Knowledge Network's 3-hour special broadcast on pornography
Consultant/discussant, Vancouver, 1985

Doing the Bunny Hop the American Way: Varda Burstyn Reads Playboy,
Writer and presenter, produced by Paper Tiger Television, New York, media literacy series, 1984.

Ontario College of Art, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, A-Space Gallery (Toronto), national ANNPAC conferences,
Women in Focus Seminars on sexual and gender representation in film, video, television and fine art, 1983-1988

Canadian Images Film Festival
Co-programmer of women's program; program component: sexuality and film; Peterborough, ON 1982.

York University
Developed and taught senior-level undergraduate courses on Film and Gender, 1979 to 1986. Cross listed in Film Studies and Women's Studies.

 

Current Film Project:

DOUBLETHINK: Orwell and Huxley Then and Now. (feature documentary)
Co-writer with Magnus Isacsson, Director. Produced by Adam Symansky & the National Film Board of Canada/Arnie Gelbart, Gala Films.