Sylvia Hamilton

Multiawardwinning filmmaker Sylvia Hamilton was born in the historically black community ofBeechville Nova Scotia west of Halifax The second youngest child of six to Gerald Hamilton a labourer and Marie Hamilton a teacher Hamilton first attended a segregated allblack primary school and then switched to a nonsegregated high school outside of her community Prior to becoming involved in the film industry she worked in cable television as a radio journalist and as a freelance broadcaster She worked with the National Film Boards Studio D in Montreal where she cocreated New Initiatives in Film NIF the first specific program of its kind designed to provide opportunities for women of colour and First Nations women from across Canada to make films brbrRead more about a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscasylviahamiltonbiographySylvia Hamiltonabrbrbr