Brenda Longfellow

Canadian filmmaker, environmentalist, and feminist

Brenda Longfellow

Born| 1954 (age 69-70)

Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada

Education| MA at Carleton University and PhD at York University
Known for| Biographies of historic women.
Notable work|

* Our Marilyn
* Tina in Mexico

Awards| Houston Film Festival Bronze Remi Award (2008); Genie Award for Best Short Documentary (1999)

Brenda Longfellow (born 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker known for her biographies of female historic figures.[1] Since 2007, Longfellow's focus in her films has been on environmental issues.[2]

## Biography[edit]

Brenda Longfellow was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario in 1954.[1] Longfellow earned MA at Carleton University and completed a PhD at York University.[3]

## Career[edit]

Longfellow is a Canadian filmmaker and Professor of Cinema & Media Studies in the York University Film Department.[4] She is a film theorist and has published multiple articles related to Canadian cinema, documentary and feminist film theory.[5][4]

### Style, technique, and reception[edit]

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".[1]

### Significant works[edit]

* Offshore (2018), an interactive web documentary received AMPD Research Award from York University.[6]
* Dead Ducks (2011), received the Audience Award for Best Experimental Film at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.[6]
* Carpe Diem (2010), a short opera about environmental disaster.[5][7]
* Weather Report (2008), a TV documentary exploring climate change received a Bronze Remi Award at the Houston Film Festival.[6]
* Tina in Mexico (2002), a feature documentary about Tina Mondott received Best Arts/Cultural Documentary at International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba.[8][9]
* Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 19th Genie Awards.[6]
* Our Marilyn (1987), an experimental 16 mm film about Marilyn Bell received the Grand Prix at Oberhausen and was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in 1990.[10][11]

### Bibliography[edit]

* MacKenzie, Scott; Waugh, Tom; Brenda Longfellow (2013) co-editors. The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson anthology. ISBN 978-0-7735-4143-6[12][6]
* Pevere, Geoff; Handling, Piers; Hays, Matthew; Wise, Wyndham; Longfellow, Brenda; Gravestock, Steve; Edwards, Justin D. (2009). Toronto on Film. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0968913229.[13]
* Armatage, Kay; Banning, Kass, Longfellow, Brenda; Marchessault, Janine (1992). Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema (pp. 3–14) University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802041203[14]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Brenda Longfellow (partial data)". www.femfilm.ca. Canadian Women Film Directors Database. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
2. ^ Wilson, Sheena, ed. (2017). PETROCULTURES: Oil, Politics, Culture. Carlson, Adam; Szeman, Imre. McGill - Queen's University Press. p. 509\. ISBN 978-0-7735-5039-1.
3. ^ "Brenda Longfellow". www.ampd.yorku.ca. York U. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
4. ^ a b "Brenda Longfellow". www.thequirefoundation.org. The Squire Foundation. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
5. ^ a b "Carpe Diem". www.nsi-canada.ca. national screen institute. 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
6. ^ a b c d e "AMPD honours 'Offshore' documentary creator at inaugural research celebration, Feb. 14". www.yorku.ca. yFile York University's News. 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
7. ^ "Carpe Diem". www.cultureunplugged.com. culture unplugged. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
8. ^ "Tina In Mexico". www.fullfrogfilms.com. Bullfrog Films, Inc. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
9. ^ Lidstone, Dave (2011). "Brenda Longfellow at Carbon Arc". The Coast. www.thecoast.ca. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
10. ^ Biographical Notes - Speakers, Chairs and Keynotes (PDF). McGill. 2014. p. 7. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
11. ^ "Brenda Longellow Works by Artist". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
12. ^ Longfellow, Brenda; MacKenzie, Scott; Waugh, Thomas (2013). The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson. McGill Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-8896-7. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
13. ^ "Toronto on Film". www.ulupress.wlu.ca. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
14. ^ Armatage, Kay; Banning, Kass; Longfellow, Brenda; Marchessault, Janine (1999). Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442675223. ISBN 0-8020-4120-5. JSTOR 10.3138/9781442675223. S2CID 241300832. Retrieved 12 June 2019.

## Further reading[edit]

* Szeman, Imre (2015). Art Against Oil: Brenda Longellow's "Offshore" . Point of View Magazine.
* Korber, Lill-Ann; MacKenzie, Scott; Stenport, Anna Esterstahl, co-editors(2017). Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene. The Melodrama of Hyper-Reality: Brenda Longfellow's Dead Ducks (2012) pp 189–191, Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. ISBN 978-3-319-39115-1

## External links[edit]

* Brenda Longfellow at IMDb

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

Artists|

* National Gallery of Canada