Lynne Fernie | |
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Born | 1946 |
Education | Ontario College of Art and Design University honors graduate |
Occupation | Documentary filmmaker |
Known for | Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives |
Lynne Fernie (born 1946)[1] is a Canadian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. She spent fourteen years as the Canadian Spectrum programmer for the Hot Docs Festival from 2002 to 2016, and was described as having a passion as "deep as her knowledge," and it was said that her "championing of Canadian documentaries and the people who make them has never wavered."[2]