Canadian filmmaker, environmentalist, and feminist
Brenda Longfellow (born 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker known for her biographies of female historic figures. Since 2007, Longfellow's focus in her films has been on environmental issues.
Biography.
Brenda Longfellow was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario in 1954. Longfellow earned MA at Carleton University and completed a PhD at York University.
Career.
Longfellow is a Canadian filmmaker and Professor of Cinema &amp; Media Studies in the York University Film Department. She is a film theorist and has published multiple articles related to Canadian cinema, documentary and feminist film theory.
Style, technique, and reception.
Longfellow's stated the following on the Canadian Women Film Directors Database website about her biographies about women, "...using biography as a way to think through as deeply as possible the contradictions that women live with. I've often chosen subjects where there has been dissonance between the public image of the women and her private experience".
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