Donald Brittain
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Donald Brittain, O.C. (born Ottawa, June 10, 1928 – died Montreal, July 21, 1989) was an acclaimed filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada.
Brittain's most notable directorial credits include the 1965 documentaries Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen and Memorandum and the Genie Award-winning 1979 documentary Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed. He also directed the first-ever IMAX film, Tiger Child, for Expo '70.
He co-directed the 1976 feature documentary Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination.
Brittain also directed the three-part CBC-coproduced series The Champions (1978), chronicling the lives and battles of Canadian political titans René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
He won the Gemini Award for best screenplay and direction for the 1985 drama Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks.
[edit] Lifetime achievement awards and posthumous honours
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]
Every year, the IDFA, International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, gives an acclaimed filmmaker the chance to screen his or her personal Top 10 favorite films. In 2007, Iranian filmmaker Maziar Bahari selected Paperland for his top ten classics from the history of documentary. [2]
[edit] External links
- Donald Brittain at the Internet Movie Database
- NFB biography
- Donald Brittain at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia [A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]
- Museum of Broadcast Communications bio
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