Norma Bailey
Norma Bailey (born 1949, in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian film director. She has directed television films, fictional and documentary shorts, as well as feature films. In 2010, she was named to the Order of Manitoba.
Career[]
Norma Bailey graduated from the University of Manitoba and began her film career in Montreal as a production assistant on Allan Moyle’s The Rubber Gun and David Cronenberg’s Rabid. She joined the National Film Board of Canada, and her first short, The Performer, made for the Canada Vignettes series, won a jury prize for short film at the Cannes Film Festival. She has since directed and produced numerous shorts, documentaries, features and television dramas, including the Genie Award-winning Bordertown Café in 1992.[1]
Selected filmography[]
- The Wake (1986)
- Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988)
- Women in the Shadows (1992)
- Bordertown Café (1992)
- The True Story of Linda M. (1995)
- For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1996)
- Nights Below Station Street (1997)
- Star Trek: Discovery — "Su'Kal" (2020)
- Superman & Lois - "Holding the Wrench" (2021)
References[]
- ^ Newman, Roger (21 May 2010). "Norma Bailey selected for prestigious Order of Manitoba". Interlake Today. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
External links[]
- Norma Bailey at IMDb
- Watch films by Norma Bailey at the National Film Board of Canada
- Canadian women film directors
- 1949 births
- People from Gimli, Manitoba
- Film directors from Manitoba
- Living people
- Women television directors
- Canadian television directors
- Members of the Order of Manitoba
- Canadian Screen Award winners
- Canadian film director stubs