Cynthia Scott
Cynthia Scott ( born January 1, 1939 in Winnipeg ) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter. With her documentary short film Flamenco at 5:15, she won an Oscar.
Life and work
Cynthia Scott grew up in a working class family. She completed a degree in English literature and philosophy at the University of Manitoba, she at the age of 19 years with the BA completed. She then worked as a second assistant director at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and eventually joined a job as a script assistant for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC) in Winnipeg. She stayed for ten years working for CBC and went temporarily to London to do research there for the CBC Television newsmagazine This Hour Has Seven Days. In 1965 she moved to CBC Television Newscast Take 30 in Canada, where she worked as a producer in the field of public affairs.
Since 1972, Scott worked as a director and producer for the National Film Board of Canada. They first produced a number of documentaries on social issues. In the 1980s, she made several movies about dancing, Flamenco at what was 5:15 in 1984 won an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. In 1990, under her direction, the financially successful and award-winning docu-fiction Among strangers that made them internationally known.
Scott is with the Canadian director John N. Smith ( b. 1943 ) married. At its 1982 nominated for an Academy Award short film First Winter she was involved as a co- writer on the screenplay.