Brenda Longfellow
| Brenda Longfellow | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 Copper Cliff, Ontario |
| Education | BA, MA at Carleton University and PhD at York University |
| Known for | Biographies of historic women. |
| Notable work | Our Marilyn[1] (1987), Tina in Mexico'[2] (2002). |
| Awards | Houston Film Festival Bronze Remi Award (2008); Genie Award for Best Short Documentary (1998) |
Brenda Longfellow (b. 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker is known for her biographies of female historic figures.[3] Since 2007, Longfellow's focus in her films has been on environmental issues.[4]
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Biography
Brenda Longfellow was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario in 1954.[3] Longfellow earned both a BA and MA at Carleton University and completed a PhD at York University.[5]
Career
Longfellow is an award winning Canadian filmmaker[6] and an Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies in the York University Film Department.[6] She is a film theorist[7] and has published multiple articles related to Canadian cinema, documentary and feminist film theory.[6]
Style, technique, and reception
Longfellow's stated the following on the Canadian Women Film Directors Database website about her biographies about women, "...using biography as a way to think through as deeply as possible the contradictions that women live with. I've often chosen subjects where there has been dissonance between the public image of the women and her private experience."[3]
Significant works
- Offshore (2018) an interactive web documentary received AMPD Research Award from York University.[8]
- Dead Ducks (2011) received the Audience Award for Best Experimental Film at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.[8]
- Carpe Diem (2010) a short opera about environmental disaster.[7][9]
- Weather Report (2008) a TV documentary exploring climate change received a Bronze Remi Award at the Houston Film Festival.[8]
- Tina in Mexico (2002) a feature documentary about Tina Mondott received Best Cultural Documentary at the Havana International Film Festival.[8]
- Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) Canadian Genie Award for Best Short Documentary.[8]
- Our Marilyn (1987) an experimental 16 mm film about Marilyn Bell received the Grand Prox at Oberhausen.was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in 1990.[8][1]
Bibliography
- MacKenzie, Scott; Waugh, Tom; Longfellow, Brenda (2013) co-editors. The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson anthology. ISBN 978-0-7735-4143-6[10][8]
- Pevere, Geoff; Handling, Piers; Hays, Matthew; Wise,Wyndham; Longfellow, Brenda; Gravestock, Steve; Edwards, Justin D (2009). Toronto on Film. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0968913229.[11]
- Armatage, Kay; Banning, Kass, Longfellow, Brenda; Marchessault, Janine (1992). Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema (pp. 3-14) University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802041203[12][13]
References
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Further reading
- Szeman, Imre (2015). Art Against Oil: Brenda Longellow's "Offshore" . Point of View Magazine.
- Korber, Lill-Ann; MacKenzie, Scott; Stenport, Anna Esterstahl, co-editors(2017). Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene. The Melodrama of Hyper-Reality: Brenda Longfellow's Dead Ducks (2012) pp 189-191, Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. ISBN 978-3-319-39115-1
