Kay Armatage was an international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival from 1982 to 2004, participating in a total of 23 TIFF's.
10 Facts About Kay Armatage
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Kay Armatage has been praised for sticking up for Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl when the board wanted to cut many scenes from the film for the festival in the name of censorship.
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Kay Armatage has often argued for gender equality in filmmaking, and has stated that she believes that the goal for female filmmakers shouldn't just be to get to the halfway point, but to potentially exceed it.
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Kay Armatage is on the Board of Directors of Women in View - an advocacy group for gender and diversity in Canadian media.
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Kay Armatage is a professor emerita at the Cinema Studies Institute and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
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Kay Armatage has written a large body of scholarly work, including well known pieces such as The Girl From God's Country: Nell Shipman and Silent Cinema and co-edited Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema.
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Kay Armatage's films have broached subjects such as "abortion in Speakbody, objectification and economy in Striptease - from a grounding in theory" and challenge other straight documentary conventions.
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Kay Armatage's films have been shown in art galleries and film festivals, such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Chicago, Toronto and Edinburgh film festivals.
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Kay Armatage's first film was a short, which she directed alongside Lydia Wazana.
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Kay Armatage disagreed with how the film portrayed her, and claimed that she could not relate to the film and believed that the image it created would 'harm' her aspirations as a serious writer.