Award winning filmmaker, Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page) will be in Winnipeg to introduce her films and do a sit down interview. Celebrated director, Norma Bailey will lead an in-depth conversation with Mary discussing her films, her career and her roots in punk music. Please purchase tickets in advance as seating is limited.
For more information on workshops, please contact the Training & Community Programs Coordinator at 925-3450 or darcy@winnipegfilmgroup.com
ABOUT MARY HARRON:
Mary Harron is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page. In addition to her films, Harron was also the executive producer of The Weather Underground, a documentary looking at the radical activists of the 1970s. She has also worked in television, directing episodes of Oz, Six Feet Under, Homicide: Life on the Street, The L Word and Big Love. She is currently developing a film based on the book, Please Kill Me which details the 1970s New York punk scene of which she was so much a part.
ABOUT NORMA BAILEY:
Norma Bailey has produced and directed many documentaries and movies and has adapted the works of David Adams Richards, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munroe. She has won numerous awards including Geminis, Blizzards, the New York American Film and Television Award, the Los Angeles Lillian Gish Award, best film from the San Francisco Native American Film Festival, the Banff Rockie Award for best movie. She was a recipient of the YWCA Woman of the Year Award and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for significant contribution to Canadian Culture.
The Winnipeg Film Group acknowledges the generous contributions of National Film Board of Canada and On Screen Manitoba.
