Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism & Other Dreams TrailerGoldwood Trailer
Kathleen Shannon was a Canadian sound editor, picture editor, producer and director. Shannon lobbied for more resources for women’s filmmaking at the National Film Board which led to the creation of Studio D in 1974.
Total trailers found: 68
01 January 1964
If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is what this film does.
02 January 1975
This short film is an ode to the women who settled the Prairies, from the days of early immigration to 1916 - when Manitobans became the first women in Canada to receive the provincial vote - and beyond.
01 January 1978
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.
01 January 1959
This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.
01 January 1986
The short documentary looks at some innovative approaches to providing services and accommodation for battered women in rural, northern, and Native communities.
01 January 1961
This short drama is a portrait of Nova Scotian journalist and politician Joseph Howe (1804-1873) and his battle for freedom of press.
04 July 1989
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society.
01 January 1986
This short documentary looks at how the community of London, Ontario, has implemented a plan to address the issue of domestic violence.
15 October 1978
A series of interviews, combined with newsreel footage, that placed the American feminist movement in historical perspective.
01 January 1962
This short biopic profiles Montreal lawyer-turned-politician George-Étienne Cartier as he campaigns to unite English and French Canada under Confederation.
19 September 1984
The history of nuns mirrors the history of all women -- in what we are taught about the past, women are almost invisible.
25 May 1962
This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world.
01 January 1991
This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film looks at human beings, their place on earth, and their deep interconnection with all other beings.
01 October 1962
A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.
01 January 1975
Meet Tony Rossi, a 10-year-old boy who can only distinguish light from shadow. Despite this difficulty, he leads a very active life.
01 January 1975
Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining site where she grew up to reflect on her early life and how it influenced the adult she became.
01 January 1960
A light, humorous look at the motor car and the great North American itch for a place on the road. From the comparative peace of Honest Joe's used-car lot, this film hustles you onto our public speedways, where hot rubber erases any distance between all points.
01 January 1961
Rousing tales of the North-West Mounted Police are brought to life through photos and artists' sketches.
01 January 1957
Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.
25 August 1984
Naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to the meadowlands of the river's source.
07 February 1961
This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Spanish cellist and conductor Pablo Casals and sponsored annually by the Puerto Rican government.
01 June 1977
Gurdeep is a thirteen-year-old Canadian Sikh whose family runs a dairy farm near Chilliwack, British Columbia.
01 May 1960
A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the sources of inspiration used by Stanley Kubrick for his 2001: A Space Odyssey.
21 March 1969
The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State.
01 January 1960
A cross-cultural study of child-rearing in India, France, Japan, and Canada, observing how family practices around a one-year-old reflect broader cultural values, with commentary by Margaret Mead.
07 February 2025
A subversive romantic comedy gone wrong that follows a young woman into and out of an emotionally abusive relationship.
02 January 1984
The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs, street drugs, or a combination of these.
01 January 1962
In this short documentary we learn the back story of the Buddha – the religion he founded and how it is manifested today.
05 June 1974
Joan is a welfare mother with seven children. Originally from the Maritimes, she now lives in Montréal.
01 January 1978
A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.
01 January 1974
Cathy, mother of three, is a university department head in a Maritime city. She speaks of the insecurity she experiences because of unpredictable day care arrangements, and of the reflection of the same difficulty in the work of her married students.
01 January 1978
A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.
01 January 1958
This short documentary offers a step-by-step account of a fast freight train on a run from Toronto to Halifax, with glimpses of the vast amount of organization necessary in the operation of a country-wide transportation network.
07 July 1974
This short film is told in the first person by Rose, a Métis woman from northern Alberta who has left a difficult life in the city to rediscover her roots by returning to her Woodland Cree community.
01 January 1957
A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice encountered by a Polish immigrant farmer in a rural Saskatchewan community.
01 October 1982
Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for nuclear disarmament.
01 January 1977
In the mountainous country near Lillooet, British Columbia, eleven-year-old Kevin Alec of the Fountain Indian Reserve learns to make fishnets with his grandfather, and skin and tan hides with his aunt.
15 August 1961
A young man of the Kainai Nation (Blood tribe) shows us contemporary life of people as he attends a Sun Dance ceremony with the tribe.
01 January 1983
Students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco from Susana and Antonio Robledo, who come to the school every winter to conduct classes which are held after the day's regular schedule has ended.
01 January 1975
Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the mother of an adopted child.
01 January 1990
This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago.
09 November 1984
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them.
01 January 1981
Depiction of Newfoundland's "old times" as seen by Julie O'Brien, an 11-year-old living in Tors Cove.
01 January 1992
Authors, teachers, social activists and feminists explore manifestations of contemporary women's spirituality in the Western world.
01 June 1979
A vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.
01 January 1963
A film by Christopher Chapman, known for his lyrical films of countryside and wilderness. He turns his colour camera on the growing city and there finds cheering proof that despite concrete and bulldozer, the persistent seed prevails.
10 January 1983
This film provides a lively introduction to the professional and personal lives of three female engineers-just a few of the growing number of women who were opting for "non-traditional" jobs in1983.
01 January 1986
This short film recreates the experience of Sylvie, a battered woman who seeks shelter in a Montréal transition house.
01 January 1979
This short documentary records Anne Cools’ 1978 run for the Liberal Party nomination in Rosedale, one of Toronto's largest and socially most diverse federal ridings.
11 November 1987
Sexually abused by her father from infancy to early adolescence, Shirley Turcotte is now in her thirties and has succeeded in building a rich and full life.
02 January 1982
In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children's pockets are usually empty and their lives well filled.
01 January 1975
A group of young girls and married women express their views of marriage and motherhood while glossy advertisements extolling romance, weddings, and babies flash across the screen in contrast to their words.
01 January 1977
When nine-year-old Nadia is allowed to attend a regular school, she knows the kids will tease her but she'll "find a way to deal with it.
26 August 1997
With quiet intelligence and wry humour, retired documentary filmmaker Kathleen Shannon takes us through the arc of her life and career.
03 July 1989
Intercut with illustrative stock footage, Adam's World present a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a feminist theologian, environmentalist, and futurist.
01 January 1986
A film documenting the work and personal lives of five physically disabled women. It shows how they are coping with the problems they share with all women, the problems they share with other disabled women and those unique to their particular circumstances.
