Cynthia Scott

Directing

Cynthia Scott

Born

1939-01-01 (87)

Place of birth

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Cynthia Scott RCA (born January 1, 1939) is a Canadian award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, written, and edited several films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Her works have won the Oscar and Canadian Film Award. Scott is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her projects with the NFB are 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 Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984.

Known for

The Company of Strangers poster
7.1

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.

The Company of Strangers

1990

Flamenco at 5:15 poster
6.8

Students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco from Susana and Antonio Robledo, who come to the school every winter to conduct classes which are held after the day's regular schedule has ended.

Flamenco at 5:15

1983

Some Natives of Churchill poster
9.0

This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead seaport for the shipment of Prairie grain. It also changed the way of life of the Native Indian and Inuit population.

Some Natives of Churchill

1973

No artwork available
9.0

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film considers the chronic patient's right to quality care, and the acutely ill patient's right to a hospital bed. Jean is suffering from multiple sclerosis and is almost completely paralyzed. It seems that the only ones who care about her are the nurses. With the arrival of a patient in need of an operation, it becomes apparent that chronic patients have little priority.

Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem

1985

The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine poster
10.0

Here is the village of Ste-Justine as one gifted man, novelist and playwright Roch Carrier, remembers it. In this small corner of Québec there is space in the landscape and in the vast spread of forest, but the fringe of rocks around every field speaks of the backbreaking hardship that was the lot of Carrier's father and of his grandfather before him. This is a nostalgic view of rural Québec.

The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine

1972

Canada Vignettes: The Thirties poster
6.0

A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.

Canada Vignettes: The Thirties

1978

Behind the camera

The Company of Strangers poster
7.1

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.

The Company of Strangers

1990

The Company of Strangers poster
7.1

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.

The Company of Strangers

1990

Flamenco at 5:15 poster
6.8

Students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco from Susana and Antonio Robledo, who come to the school every winter to conduct classes which are held after the day's regular schedule has ended.

Flamenco at 5:15

1983

Flamenco at 5:15 poster
6.8

Students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco from Susana and Antonio Robledo, who come to the school every winter to conduct classes which are held after the day's regular schedule has ended.

Flamenco at 5:15

1983

Some Natives of Churchill poster
9.0

This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead seaport for the shipment of Prairie grain. It also changed the way of life of the Native Indian and Inuit population.

Some Natives of Churchill

1973

Some Natives of Churchill poster
9.0

This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead seaport for the shipment of Prairie grain. It also changed the way of life of the Native Indian and Inuit population.

Some Natives of Churchill

1973

No artwork available
9.0

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film considers the chronic patient's right to quality care, and the acutely ill patient's right to a hospital bed. Jean is suffering from multiple sclerosis and is almost completely paralyzed. It seems that the only ones who care about her are the nurses. With the arrival of a patient in need of an operation, it becomes apparent that chronic patients have little priority.

Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem

1985

The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine poster
10.0

Here is the village of Ste-Justine as one gifted man, novelist and playwright Roch Carrier, remembers it. In this small corner of Québec there is space in the landscape and in the vast spread of forest, but the fringe of rocks around every field speaks of the backbreaking hardship that was the lot of Carrier's father and of his grandfather before him. This is a nostalgic view of rural Québec.

The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine

1972

Canada Vignettes: The Thirties poster
6.0

A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.

Canada Vignettes: The Thirties

1978

First Winter poster
6.9

A historical drama depicting an Irish immigrant family’s first winter in Canada, where isolation, illness, and an unforgiving landscape test their will to survive.

First Winter

1982

Canada Vignettes: Holidays poster
9.0

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

Canada Vignettes: Holidays

1978

No artwork available
NR

At the annual ballet recital, Elizabeth, much to her chagrin, is cast in the part of the boy. The other girls in the ballet class ridicule her; her parents are unsympathetic. Only her free-spirited Aunt Eadie seems to understand.

Jack of Hearts

1986

Scoggie poster
7.0

This short documentary profiles 27-year-old Scoggie Watson, a Cape Breton stalwart who clings to the things he cherishes most: the waters of Lake Bras d'Or, his hand-built sailboat, his freedom, and the friends who stayed in Cape Breton instead of leaving for the big cities.

Scoggie

1975