Brenda Longfellow Explained

Brenda Longfellow
Birth Place:	Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada
Education:	MA at Carleton University and PhD at York University
Known For:	Biographies of historic women.
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. Since 2007, Longfellow's focus in her films has been on environmental issues.^[1]

Biography

Brenda Longfellow was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario in 1954. Longfellow earned MA at Carleton University and completed a PhD at York University.^[2]

Career

Longfellow is a Canadian filmmaker and Professor of Cinema & Media Studies in the York University Film Department.^[3] She is a film theorist and has published multiple articles related to Canadian cinema, documentary and feminist film theory.^[4]

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".^[5]

Significant works

• 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.
• Carpe Diem (2010), a short opera about environmental disaster.^[7]
• Weather Report (2008), a TV documentary exploring climate change received a Bronze Remi Award at the Houston Film Festival.
• 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]}
• (1998) won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 19th Genie Awards.
• 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

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

Further reading

• 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.

Notes and References

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