Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule
Directed byLynne Fernie
Aerlyn Weissman
Produced byRina Fraticelli
StarringJane Rule
Edited byCathy Gulkin
Music byKathryn Moses
Production
company
Great Jane Productions
Distributed byFilmmakers Library
Release date
  • January 9, 1995 (1995-01-09)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman and released in 1995.[1] The film is a portrait of influential lesbian writer and anti-censorship activist Jane Rule.[2]

The film premiered on January 9, 1995 at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto, at a gala benefit for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives,[3] before having its television premiere as the debut episode of TVOntario's documentary series The View from Here on January 11.[4] It subsequently screened theatrically elsewhere in Canada, including at a benefit screening for Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium in Vancouver during its censorship dispute with the Canada Border Services Agency.[5]

The film won the Genie Award for Best Short Documentary at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996.[6]

References

  1. ^ Peter Birnie, "Moving pictures of women". Vancouver Sun, March 8, 1995.
  2. ^ Sandra Martin, "B.C. novelist wrote a cult classic and became a lesbian role model". The Globe and Mail, November 29, 2007.
  3. ^ Rick Bébout, "Jane rules". Xtra!, January 2, 1995.
  4. ^ Bonnie Malleck, "Liberty Street and View from Here : Pair of Canadian series debut". Waterloo Region Record, January 11, 1995.
  5. ^ Jeani Read, "Day to recall how far we have come". The Province, March 8, 1995.
  6. ^ John Griffin, "Le Confessional win bittersweet; Canada's top film fails to challenge Margaret's Museum in the numbers game". Ottawa Citizen, January 15, 1996.

External links


Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary
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