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View an award-winning cinematic feature film presented by the NFB.We encourage you to register for this event using the Find Ticket button. However, limited seating will be available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis.
Director: Donald McWilliams
2024 | 116 min
Feature Documentary
English
When Canada entered World War II, the National Film Board (NFB) suddenly had an urgent new mission—and hundreds of women stepped forward, helping to create Canadian cinema as we now know it.
“We learned to work with chaos.”
The intrepid women who helped create Canadian cinema come to vibrant life in A Return to Memory, a 2024 documentary masterwork illuminating their vital but little-known role in establishing Canada’s National Film Board.
Juxtaposing a dazzling array of archival material with dynamic animation by NFB infographics artist Mélanie Bouchard, director Donald McWilliams evokes the heady wartime years, when women played a key part in transforming the NFB into a major international studio.
With men engaged elsewhere in the war effort, hundreds of women pursued careers at the newly formed public producer—and pioneering figures like Evelyn Spice Cherry, Red Burns, and Jane Marsh Beveridge made movie history, creating work that spoke to the world with a distinctive Canadian voice.
View excerpts of this award-winning film and find out more about it from the National Film Board of Canada.
This program is offered as part of the NFB in Libraries program. The film was generously provided for this event by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
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Idea Exchange - Old Post Office, 12 Water St South,Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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