Holly Dale

Directing

Holly Dale

Born

1953-12-23 (72)

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Holly Dale is a Canadian film and television director and producer, best known for her first feature documentary "P4W: Prison for Women" in 1981, an award-winning study about a maximum security prison for women, realized with her long time collaborator Janis Cole. Since then, she worked for countless television productions in North America.

Known for

Hush Little Baby poster
1.0

A young mother suffers her worst nightmare -the drowning of her young daughter. Two years later, Jamie gives birth to another girl. After a series of suspicious accidents, Jamie becomes haunted by fears that her dead daughter's vengeful spirit has returned in her new baby. Is she right, or is guilt over her daughter's death pushing her sanity over the edge? Written by Anonymous

Hush Little Baby

2007

Absolution poster
5.0

For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent to investigate.

Absolution

2006

Blood & Donuts poster
5.4

In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.

Blood & Donuts

1995

Hookers on Davie poster
5.3

Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.

Hookers on Davie

1984

Calling the Shots poster
9.0

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Calling the Shots

1988

Dead Meat poster
8.0

An encounter between a drug addict and a hit man on the Toronto streets.

Dead Meat

1993

Behind the camera

Hush Little Baby poster
1.0

A young mother suffers her worst nightmare -the drowning of her young daughter. Two years later, Jamie gives birth to another girl. After a series of suspicious accidents, Jamie becomes haunted by fears that her dead daughter's vengeful spirit has returned in her new baby. Is she right, or is guilt over her daughter's death pushing her sanity over the edge? Written by Anonymous

Hush Little Baby

2007

Absolution poster
5.0

For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent to investigate.

Absolution

2006

Blood & Donuts poster
5.4

In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.

Blood & Donuts

1995

Hookers on Davie poster
5.3

Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.

Hookers on Davie

1984

Hookers on Davie poster
5.3

Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.

Hookers on Davie

1984

Hookers on Davie poster
5.3

Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.

Hookers on Davie

1984

Calling the Shots poster
9.0

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Calling the Shots

1988

Calling the Shots poster
9.0

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Calling the Shots

1988

Calling the Shots poster
9.0

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Calling the Shots

1988

Dead Meat poster
8.0

An encounter between a drug addict and a hit man on the Toronto streets.

Dead Meat

1993

Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy poster
NR

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

1992

No artwork available
3.8

Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.

Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story

1996

Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail poster
NR

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail

1992

Minimum Charge No Cover poster
7.0

The film unfolds to reveal some of the filmmaker's friends who lead alternative lifestyles. We meet transsexuals, homosexuals, hookers, transvestites and female impersonators.

Minimum Charge No Cover

1976

P4W: Prison for Women poster
10.0

Canada's iconic filmmaking duo takes us behind the walls of the women's prison in Kingston, Ontario, turning the camera on five incarcerate women who share stories and affirm the complexities of humanity with their poignant and humorous frankness.

P4W: Prison for Women

1981

No artwork available
7.5

A cinema verité documentary about the mid-seventies body rub industry in Toronto. Customers furtively come and go, and women talk together in the dressing room, explaining the tricks of their trade.

Cream Soda

1976

No artwork available
7.5

A cinema verité documentary about the mid-seventies body rub industry in Toronto. Customers furtively come and go, and women talk together in the dressing room, explaining the tricks of their trade.

Cream Soda

1976