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Best known for her 1991 feature documentary on female comics emWisecracksem Gail Singer has done everything from codirecting an IMAX movie emDestiny in Spaceem for the Smithsonian Institute which was written by a hrefmyerstoniToni Myersa to making her own fiction movie emTrue Confectionsem 1991 as well as writing and directing dozens of documentaries Her films have taken her to many different continents and have been screened at festivals and on television throughout the world She has been honoured at home and in the US Japan where a book on the impact of her 1985 film emAbortion Stories from North and Southem was published Great Britain France Switzerland and elsewhere Singer has held parttime teaching positions at York Universitys Winters College at University College at the University of Toronto and she held the Barker Fairley Honourary Chair in Canadian Culture at University College at the University of Torontobrbrbr
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Riverrain: Gift of the Passage (1976)
Time of the Cree (1976)
We Don’t Live Here Anymore (1976)
Seasons of Plenty (1977)
Loved, Honoured and Bruised (1979, short, documentary)
Blue Planet (1980, Tokyo Images sequence)
The World’s Children (1980)
A Moveable Feast: A film about Breastfeeding (1982)
Portrait of the Artist… As an Old Lady (1982, short)
Abortion: Stories from North and South (1985, documentary)
Trade Secrets (1985)
Neighbourhoods (1985)
Profile of Barton Myers (1986)
Hayley’s Home Movie (1987)
Heart Land (1987, short, documentary)
A Mother and Daughter on Abortion (1987, short, documentary)
Without Work: Is Everyone Here Crazy (1989, short)
Finland (1990, Urban Images sequence)
True Confections (TV-1991)
Wisecracks (1991, documentary)
Destiny In Space (1994, short, documentary)
You Can’t Beat a Woman! (1997!, documentary)
Watching Movies (2002)
TV Series – at least episode of:
Loving Spoonfuls (2000)
72 Hours: True Crime (2003)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
Loved, Honoured and Bruised (1979)
Abortion: Stories from North and South (1985)
True Confections (1991)
You Can’t Beat a Woman! (1997)
Watching Movies (2002, documentary)
Credits as a Producer:
The Fiddlers of James Bay (Associate Producer, 1980)
Portrait of the Artist… As an Old Lady (1982, short)
Abortion: Stories from North and South (1985, documentary)
A Mother and Daughter on Abortion (1987, short, documentary)
Wisecracks (1991, documentary)
Watching Movies (2002, documentary)
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