Cynthia Scott was born on January 1,1939 and is a Canadian award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, written, and edited several films with the National Film Board of Canada.
17 Facts About Cynthia Scott
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Cynthia Scott's works have won the Oscar and Canadian Film Award.
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Cynthia Scott is married to filmmaker John N Smith; their son is actor Dylan Smith.
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Cynthia Scott grew up in a self-described working-class family that fostered her creativity growing up.
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Cynthia Scott insists that her intrigue in film started at a very young age.
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Cynthia Scott has stated that her filmmaking career began in documentaries then later on in her career her interest shifted to drama.
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Cynthia Scott's career took a turn in 1972 when the National Film Board of Canada hired her as a staff director.
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Cynthia Scott immediately began directing, producing and writing both documentary and fiction pieces for the NFB.
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Cynthia Scott mainly worked on slice-of-life documentaries with a mind for social issues.
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Cynthia Scott's debut directing work would then go on to win a Canadian Film Award for direction in a TV Information program.
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In 1976, Cynthia Scott produced the controversial Barbara Greene documentary Listen Listen Listen for the NFB.
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Cynthia Scott researched and co-wrote First Winter, directed by John N Smith, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards.
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Cynthia Scott chose to have a strictly female team in order to place emphasis on the importance of women in the film industry supporting each other.
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Cynthia Scott directed the short documentary film Flamenco at 5:15.
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Cynthia Scott has said she plans to go back into development on The Stone Diaries once her health has returned to normal.
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However, in a 2004 interview with Sarah Kernochan, Cynthia Scott described herself to Kernochan as "retired now".
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The Dunany community organization honoured Cynthia Scott by holding an event at the community club house where her Oscar award winning documentary Flamenco at 5:15 was screened.