Best known for her 1991 feature documentary on female comics, Wisecracks, Gail Singer has done everything from co-directing an IMAX movie, Destiny in Space, for the Smithsonian Institute, which was written by Toni Myers, to making her own fiction movie, True Confections (1991) as well as writing and directing dozens of documentaries. Her films have taken her to many different continents and have been screened at festivals and on television throughout the world. She has been honoured at home and in the U.S., Japan (where a book on the impact of her 1985 film Abortion, Stories from North and South, was published), Great Britain, France, Switzerland and elsewhere. Singer has held part-time teaching positions at York University’s Winter’s College; at University College at the University of Toronto and she held the Barker Fairley Honourary Chair in Canadian Culture at University College at the University of Toronto. |
Features & TV Movies: Riverrain: Gift of the Passage (1976) Blue Planet (1980, Tokyo Images sequence) Finland (1990, Urban Images sequence) Watching Movies (2002) TV Series – at least episode of: Credits as a Screenwriter: Credits as a Producer: |
