Fear of Fat: eight stories of eating and weight
documentary
LINDA FEESEY
416-880-6537
[email protected]
Linda Feesey is a Toronto documentary maker, arts programmer and film reviewer. Her four documentaries have been screened at festivals around the globe including two premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. From 1989 on, she created numerous small-gauge films on both 8mm and super 8 including two 30 minute 8mm film cycles. These films have been included in screenings and festivals in Canada and internationally such as Oberhausen, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque and YYZ. Feesey is a president of the board of directors for the Pleasure Dome screening series. Her film reviews appear in Broken Pencil magazine.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Producer/Director/Writer
Dancing the River
10:30 minute fiction, 2010
Airing on Bravo, 2012 Parkdale Film and video Showcase
Producer/Director/Editor
Fear of Fat: eight stories of eating and weight
60 minute documentary, 2006
Distributed by Films Media Group,New Jersey
Filmmaker
When are you coming home?
two minute feline extravaganza
Producer/Co-Director/Researcher
Casuistry: The Art of Killing A Cat
90 minute documentary, 2004
Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent, Brooklyn Underground, Montreal International Films on Art, Taipei Canadian Film Festival, Melbourne International, Pioneer Theatre/NYC, Cine Muerte/Vancouver, Horse Hospital/London UK, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema/Austin TX.
Director/Editor
Sex and Cerebral Palsy
25 minute documentary, 2003
Screenings: Pleasure Dome/Toronto, Kino Arsenal/Berlin, Video Mundi/Chicago, Forest City Gallery/London, Media City/Windsor
Writer/Director/Editor
Mr. Kafka’s Holiday
35 minute drama, 2002
Screenings: York University, Cork Film Festival, Cinematheque Ontario
Associate Producer/Camera
What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band
80 minute documentary, 2000
Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, Tromso International, New York Underground, Chicago Underground, Vancouver International, Victoria Independent, Horse Hospital/London, Local Heroes/Edmonton and Winnipeg, Cinematheque Ontario, National Gallery/Ottawa, Pacific Cinematheque, Tokyo, Provincetown International Film Festival, Airing on Bravo
AWARDS/GRANTS
2008 Canada Council Travel Grant
2007 Ontario Arts Council Arts Service Organization Grant (IMAA - Ontario)
2006 Canada Council Supplementary Operating Funds Grant (Pleasure Dome)
2006 Canada Council Dissemination Grant (Pleasure Dome)
2005 Ontario Arts CouncilWriters Reserve Grant
2005 Foreign Affairs Travel Grant
2003 Nominator, Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts - Istvan Kantor
2003 Canada Council Production Grant
2002 Nominated for MFA Thesis Award
2001 Toronto Arts Council Production Grant
2001 du Maurier Arts Council Production Grant
2000 Blueprint Moving Images in the 21st Century Production Grant
ASSOCIATIONS
2000-09 Media Arts Programmer / President of the Board of Directors / Delegate to the Independent media Arts Alliance of Canada (IMAA)
Pleasure Dome Artists’ Film and Video Screening Series
2006-08 Board of Directors/Ontario Co-Director
Chairperson,Subcommittee for Freedom of Expression
Independent Media Arts Alliance of Canada / IMAA
2004-08 Film Reviewer
Broken Pencil Magazine
2002-3 Mentorship for Producing
Christina McLaughlin, Primitive Entertainment
Canadian Independent Film Caucus/DOC
FILM EDUCATION
2009 Independent TV Producer
Centennial College
2004 Momentum Documentary Film Making
National Film Board
2002 MFA Film and Video Production
York University
1990 Filmmaking for Artists
Ontario College of Art and Design
1982 Honours BA in Film Studies
York University
416-880-6537
[email protected]
Linda Feesey is a Toronto documentary maker, arts programmer and film reviewer. Her four documentaries have been screened at festivals around the globe including two premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. From 1989 on, she created numerous small-gauge films on both 8mm and super 8 including two 30 minute 8mm film cycles. These films have been included in screenings and festivals in Canada and internationally such as Oberhausen, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque and YYZ. Feesey is a president of the board of directors for the Pleasure Dome screening series. Her film reviews appear in Broken Pencil magazine.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Producer/Director/Writer
Dancing the River
10:30 minute fiction, 2010
Airing on Bravo, 2012 Parkdale Film and video Showcase
Producer/Director/Editor
Fear of Fat: eight stories of eating and weight
60 minute documentary, 2006
Distributed by Films Media Group,New Jersey
Filmmaker
When are you coming home?
two minute feline extravaganza
Producer/Co-Director/Researcher
Casuistry: The Art of Killing A Cat
90 minute documentary, 2004
Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent, Brooklyn Underground, Montreal International Films on Art, Taipei Canadian Film Festival, Melbourne International, Pioneer Theatre/NYC, Cine Muerte/Vancouver, Horse Hospital/London UK, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema/Austin TX.
Director/Editor
Sex and Cerebral Palsy
25 minute documentary, 2003
Screenings: Pleasure Dome/Toronto, Kino Arsenal/Berlin, Video Mundi/Chicago, Forest City Gallery/London, Media City/Windsor
Writer/Director/Editor
Mr. Kafka’s Holiday
35 minute drama, 2002
Screenings: York University, Cork Film Festival, Cinematheque Ontario
Associate Producer/Camera
What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band
80 minute documentary, 2000
Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, Tromso International, New York Underground, Chicago Underground, Vancouver International, Victoria Independent, Horse Hospital/London, Local Heroes/Edmonton and Winnipeg, Cinematheque Ontario, National Gallery/Ottawa, Pacific Cinematheque, Tokyo, Provincetown International Film Festival, Airing on Bravo
AWARDS/GRANTS
2008 Canada Council Travel Grant
2007 Ontario Arts Council Arts Service Organization Grant (IMAA - Ontario)
2006 Canada Council Supplementary Operating Funds Grant (Pleasure Dome)
2006 Canada Council Dissemination Grant (Pleasure Dome)
2005 Ontario Arts CouncilWriters Reserve Grant
2005 Foreign Affairs Travel Grant
2003 Nominator, Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts - Istvan Kantor
2003 Canada Council Production Grant
2002 Nominated for MFA Thesis Award
2001 Toronto Arts Council Production Grant
2001 du Maurier Arts Council Production Grant
2000 Blueprint Moving Images in the 21st Century Production Grant
ASSOCIATIONS
2000-09 Media Arts Programmer / President of the Board of Directors / Delegate to the Independent media Arts Alliance of Canada (IMAA)
Pleasure Dome Artists’ Film and Video Screening Series
2006-08 Board of Directors/Ontario Co-Director
Chairperson,Subcommittee for Freedom of Expression
Independent Media Arts Alliance of Canada / IMAA
2004-08 Film Reviewer
Broken Pencil Magazine
2002-3 Mentorship for Producing
Christina McLaughlin, Primitive Entertainment
Canadian Independent Film Caucus/DOC
FILM EDUCATION
2009 Independent TV Producer
Centennial College
2004 Momentum Documentary Film Making
National Film Board
2002 MFA Film and Video Production
York University
1990 Filmmaking for Artists
Ontario College of Art and Design
1982 Honours BA in Film Studies
York University