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“A Reel Pioneer” is a documentary film about a little known pioneer of Canadian film and a group of modern day filmmakers who restore her last film. www.ladylumberjack.ca Tells the entire story! Dorothea Mitchell was the first female independent filmmaker in Canada and her story is quintessentially Canadian. The through line for “A Reel Pioneer” is built upon the biography of Dorothea Mitchell, but the story is about film making on the Canadian…
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Canada's First Amateur Feature-Length Film: A Race for Ties For more information go to www.ladylumberjack.ca The Lady Lumberjack: An Annotated Collection of Dorothea Mitchell's Writings The following is a transcript of an interview conducted in 1963 by Harold Harcourt with Dorothea Mitchell describing her experience making A Race for Ties. A RACE FOR TIES (Its Inception) by Dorothea Mitchell It all started when one man conceived the idea of…
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The Fatal Flower Project Bringing Back A Piece Of Canada's Filmmaking Heritage: The Fatal Flower Project is a broad-spectrum effort to preserve and enhance Canada's film history. The project is a co-operative effort by a group of cinema enthusiasts to finish a silent film, produce a video package of the most significant collection of amateur films made in Canada before the advent of sound, republish a book written by the first female independent…
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Silent Films from the Port Arthur Cinema Society made by Dorothea Mitchell.
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