Linda Schuyler is a Canadian television producer.
15 Facts About Linda Schuyler
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Linda Schuyler is best known for being the co-creator and producer of the Degrassi franchise, which has spanned five series over four decades.
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Linda Schuyler is a co-founder of Playing With Time, Inc, and Epitome Pictures, the production companies involved with the franchise over its 40-year-long history respectively.
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In 1979, Linda Schuyler purchased the rights to adapt the Kay Chorao book Ida Makes A Movie into a film, of which ultimately became the genesis of Degrassi.
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Linda Schuyler has received multiple awards and accolades for her work.
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Linda Schuyler was born in London to Jack and Joyce Bawcutt, Linda Schuyler immigrated with her family to Canada in 1957 and was raised in Paris, Ontario.
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Linda Schuyler won a math scholarship to the University of Waterloo in 1967, but dropped out months later.
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Linda Schuyler decided to travel the world solo shortly after; while back in England, Schuyler was in a car that collided with a double-decker bus, killing the other two occupants of the car and severely injuring Schuyler, who was rendered permanently infertile.
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Linda Schuyler's first film was a documentary named Between Two Worlds.
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Linda Schuyler first attracted media attention when the NBC in the United States aired clips of Between Two Worlds out of context to support a news story about race relations in Toronto.
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In 1976, Linda Schuyler met Kit Hood, an editor of television commercials, when she needed help from an experienced editor to save the "muddled footage" of one of her projects.
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In 1979, Linda Schuyler received a copy of the children's book Ida Makes A Movie, written by Kay Chorao, when she requested Earl Grey librarian Bruce Mackey to acquire several books about filmmaking.
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However, Linda Schuyler became interested in potentially adapting the book into a movie, and planned to fly to New York to meet Chorao.
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Linda Schuyler purchased the rights to the film for $200, and repurposed the film to be about a girl who enters a movie about the garbage in her neighborhood into a National Film Board-sponsored competition and wins, despite the film being misinterpreted as an anti-war piece.
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Linda Schuyler has a child, Max from a previous marriage.