Donald Brittain

Donald Brittain started out as a journalist and after a number of years with the Ottawa Journal he joined The National Film Board in 1955 A unique combination of talents he was a documentary producerdirector who most often wrote his own scripts and narrated them too His awards 15 Genie and Canadian Film Awards in all include 3 a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscaawardsarchivegenieawardsGeniesa for iPaperland The Bureaucrat Observedi ACTRA Awards for iThe Most Dangerous Spyi and iA Blanket of Icei in 1981 another ACTRA Award for iSomething to Celebratei 1983 2 Geminis for iCanadas Sweetheart The Saga of Hal C Banksi 1985 which was also named Best Canadian Production at the 1985 Toronto Festival of Festivals 2 Geminis for iThe Final Battlei in 1986 These are his credits as a director The 1965 film iLadies and GentlemanMr Leonard Coheni was codirected with a hrefowendonDon Owena Shortly before his death he had started work on iFamily A Loving Look at CBC Radioi The project was competed in 1991 by Robert Duncan A year after his passing Brittain was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of his masterful visual records of our social and cultural pastbrbrbr