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Donald Brittain
Born (1928-06-10 ) June 10, 1928Died July 21, 1989(1989-07-21) (aged 61 ) Known for Filmmaker Awards Order of Canada
Donald Code Brittain , OC film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada .
Fields of Sacrifice [1] Bethune ,[2] Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen Memorandum Genie Award -winning 1979 documentary Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed IMAX film, Tiger Child Expo '70 , and Earthwatch Expo 86 .[3]
He wrote the 1975 Oscar-nominated short documentary Whistling Smith Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination.
Brittain also directed the three-part CBC -coproduced series The Champions René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau . His most ambitious project was The King Chronicle William Lyon Mackenzie King .[4]
He won the Gemini Award for best screenplay and direction for the 1985 drama Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
As NFB producer, Brittain's credits included Arthur Lipsett 's A Trip Down Memory Lane .[5]
Often a narrator of his own documentaries, Brittain also lent his voice to the animated mockumentary What on Earth! [6]
Lifetime achievement awards and posthumous honours [ edit ]
In 1989, Brittain was the recipient of a Margaret Collier Award . In 1990, he was posthumously appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of "his masterful visual records of our social and cultural past.[1]
The Donald Brittain Award for the best political or social documentary presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television at the Gemini Awards and more recently, the Canadian Screen Awards , are named in his honour.
Brittain is interred in Ottawa, Ontario's Beechwood Cemetery.
References [ edit ]
^ "Showscan" .
^ "NFB Artisans - Donald Brittain" . Archived from the original on 2012-03-20.
^ Kashmere, Brett (May 2004). "Arthur Lipsett" . Senses of Cinema ISSN 1443-4059 . Archived from the original on 2010-06-10.
^ "What on Earth!" . Collection . National Film Board of Canada . Retrieved 12 March 2010 .
Further reading [ edit ]
Terry Kolomeychuk, ed. (1991). Donald Brittain: Never the Ordinary Way . Winnipeg: National Film Board of Canada. ISBN 0-7722-0188-9
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