Lynne Fernie
| Lynne Fernie | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | documentary filmmaker |
| Known for | Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives |
Lynne Fernie (born 1946)[1] is a Canadian filmmaker, best known as the co-director with Aerlyn Weissman of the award-winning 1992 documentary film Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives.[1] Her other films have included Fiction and Other Truths: A Film about Jane Rule (1995), School's Out! (1996) and Apples and Oranges (2003).[1]
Fernie was a founding member of numerous arts and LGBT organizations in Toronto, including the arts magazines Fireweed and Parallélogramme, the Lesbian Organization of Toronto and the Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[1] She was also a frequent songwriting collaborator with the pop band Parachute Club, including on the band's most famous single, "Rise Up".[1] She also collaborated with Lorraine Segato and Richard Underhill on "Bringing All the Voices Together", an unofficial "sequel song" to "Rise Up" which was written as a theme song for Jack Layton's campaign in the New Democratic Party leadership election, 2003.[2]
She is currently a professor in the film studies department at York University,[3] and is a programmer for the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[3]
A portrait of Fernie, by the artist Rafy, is held by the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives' National Portrait Collection, in honour of her role as a significant builder of LGBT culture and history in Canada.[4] She is interviewed in Matthew Hays' Lambda Literary Award-winning book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Lynne Fernie at glbtq.com
- ↑ "Jack Layton Wants To Get This Party Started". Carolyn Victoria Mill, January 2003.
- 1 2 Lynne Fernie faculty profile at the York University Faculty of Fine Arts.
- ↑ Inductee: Lynne Fernie. Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
- ↑ Hays, Matthew. "Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman: Out of the Shadows." Interview with Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman. The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers, 112-124. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.