Lindalee Tracey

Lindalee Tracey was a WriterProducerDirector and actor She was working as an exotic dancer when she was approached by Bonnie Klein one of the producers behind the 1981 film emNot a Love Storyem Tracey appeared as a journalist in the film and served as one of the films researchers and presenters She worked briefly in radio at Montreals CJAD before moving to Toronto where she began writing for such establishment publications as Canadian Living and Toronto Life She also landed a job at CBC radio appearing on their highly popular shows emAs It Happensem and emSunday Morningem In Toronto she met the man who would become her husband filmmaker a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscaraymontpeterPeter Raymonta They formed White Pine Pictures which became widely known and highly respected for a string of excellent often awardwinning issueoriented documentaries and docudramas For example Tracey was CoProducer and Story Editor for iA Scattering of Seedsi a 39 part television series about immigrants which first aired on History Television in Canada Together they created the television drama emThe Borderem which was eventually broadcast in 2008 Tracey had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 It would eventually spread to her lungs and liver and later her brain when she died in 2006 The a hrefhttpwwwwhitepinepicturescomlindaleetraceyaward targetblankLindalee Tracey Awarda was created to honour her contribution to Canadian filmmakingbrbrAlso See a hreftraceylindaleearticleThe Anatomy of Burlesque The Embodied Passion of Lindalee Traceyabrbrbr