City Dreamers

City Dreamers
Directed byJoseph Hillel
Written byBruno Baillargeon
Joseph Hillel
Produced byZiad Touma
StarringPhyllis Lambert
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
Cornelia Oberlander
Denise Scott Brown
CinematographyÉtienne Boilard
Léna Mill-Reuillard
Stéphanie Weber Biron
Edited byHeidi Haines
Music byJean-Olivier Bégin
Production
company
Couzin Films
Distributed byMaison 4:3
Release date
  • November 10, 2018 (2018-11-10) (RIDM)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

City Dreamers is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Joseph Hillel and released in 2018.[1] The film focuses on Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Oberlander and Denise Scott Brown, four significant innovators in contemporary architecture who were among the first prominent women architects.[2]

The film premiered in November 2018 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival,[3] before going into wider release in 2019.[4]

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.[5]

  1. ^ Jocelyn Lambert Squires, "Film review: City Dreamers". Canadian Architect, August 14, 2019.
  2. ^ Alex Bozikovic, "City Dreamers: Portraits of four women who shaped the world we live in". The Globe and Mail, May 16, 2019.
  3. ^ "City Dreamers, a documentary feature by Joseph Hillel, presented at the Montreal International Documentary Festival Nov. 8 to 18". The Suburban, November 5, 2018.
  4. ^ Justine Smith, "City Dreamers looks at pioneers in architecture". Cult MTL, May 10, 2019.
  5. ^ Jillian Morgan, "Extra: Drive takes Australia doc; Canadian Screen Awards nominees unveiled". RealScreen, February 18, 2020.