Cynthia Scott
| Cynthia Scott | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 January 1939 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Occupation | Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Editor, Film Producer |
Cynthia Scott (born January 1, 1939) RCA, is an Oscar and Canadian Film Award winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, written and edited several Canadian films with the National Film Board of Canada. Scott is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She is married to filmmaker John N. Smith. Her work with the NFB is mainly focused on documentary filmmaking. Some of Scott's most notable documentaries for the NFB feature dancing and the dance world including Flamenco at 5:15 (1983), which won an Academy Award for Documentary Short at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984.
Cynthia Scott was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Scott grew up in a self-described working-class family that fostered her creativity growing up. Scott studied English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Manitoba, graduating with a B.A. in 1959, at the age of 19.
After graduation, Scott worked at the Manitoba Theatre Centre as a second assistant director before moving to London, England where she worked as a researcher for Patrick Wilson and Douglas Leiterman on This Hour Has Seven Days. In 1965, Scott returned to Canada and began working as a public affairs producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television program Take 30, where she stayed for nearly a decade.
Scott's career took a turn in 1972 when the National Film Board of Canada hired her as a staff director. Scott immediately began directing, producing and sometimes writing both documentary and fiction pieces for the NFB; mainly slice-of-life documentaries with a mind for social issues. In Scott's first year with the NFB, she directed a 26-minute documentary named The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine (1972). Scott's debut directing work would then go on to win a Canadian Film Award (which would later become the Genie Awards in 1980 and then the Canadian Screen Awards in 2012) for direction in a TV Information program. In 1976, Cynthia Scott produced the controversial Barbara Greene documentary Listen Listen Listen (1976) for the NFB.
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