Cynthia Scott

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Cynthia Scott (born January 1, 1939 in Winnipeg ) is a Canadian director , producer and screenwriter . She won an Oscar with her documentary short film Flamenco at 5:15 .

Live and act

Cynthia Scott grew up in a working class family. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in English Literature and Philosophy , from which she graduated with a BA at the age of 19 . She then worked as a second assistant director at the Manitoba Theater Center and eventually took a position as a script assistant at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Winnipeg. She stayed with CBC for ten years and in the meantime went to London to do research for the CBC Television news magazine This Hour Has Seven Days . In 1965 she moved to CBC Television's newscast Take 30 in Canada, where she worked as a public affairs producer.

Since 1972 Scott has worked as a director and producer for the National Film Board of Canada . She initially produced some documentaries on social issues. In the 1980s she made several films about dancing, of which Flamenco at 5:15 in 1984 won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film. In 1990 she directed the financially successful and multiple award-winning docufiction Under Strangers , which she also made internationally known.

Scott is married to the Canadian director John N. Smith (* 1943). She co-wrote the screenplay of his 1982 Oscar-nominated short film First Winter .

Filmography

  • 1965: Take 30 (TV series)
  • 1972: The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine
  • 1973: Two Women of the Peace
  • 1973: Some Natives of Churchill
  • 1973: Ruth and Harriet
  • 1975: Scoggie
  • 1976: Lists Lists Lists
  • 1978: Canada Vignettes: Holidays
  • 1978: Canada Vignettes: The Thirties
  • 1981: For the Love of Dance
  • 1982: First Winter
  • 1983: Flamenco at 5:15
  • 1985: Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem
  • 1986: Jack of Hearts
  • 1990: Among strangers ( Strangers in Good Company )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Cynthia Scott tiff.net, accessed January 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Cynthia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian director, producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg