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Irene Angelico
Irene Angelico has won numerous international awards for directing and producing, as well as a Gemini for best writing in a documentary. Her work has also been featured at retrospectives in England, France and Canada.
In 1974, Angelico was invited to join the National Film Board of Canada’s newly formed women’s unit, Studio D, where she co-directed the short “and They Lived Happily Ever After” (1975), part of a groundbreaking series of Challenge for Change films that were made by and about women, focusing on long-neglected women’s issues. She was also the co-producer and co-director of Dark Lullabies (1985), a film about the impact of the Holocaust on the next generation of Germans and Jews. A Studio D co-production, this acclaimed documentary won a number of awards. Angelico continued to work at Studio D until it closed its doors.
Angelico went on to become an independent filmmaker, directing and writing several award-winning projects, including The Cola Conquest (1998), Inside the Great Magazines (2007) and First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler (2022).
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"... and They Lived Happily Ever After"Kathleen Shannon , Irene Angelico , … 1975 13 minMade in 1975, as part of the Challenge for Change program, this film takes a long, hard look at marriage and motherhood as expressed in the views of a group of young girls and married women. Their opinions cover a wide range. At regular intervals glossy advertisements extolling romance, weddings, babies, flash across the screen, in strong contrast to the words that are being spoken. The film ends on a sobering thought: the solution to dashed expectations could be as simple as growing up before marriage. -
Meditation in MotionIrene Angelico 1978 10 minA short lyrical document about an ancient Eastern discipline, this film moves from the streets of China, where people practice Tai-Chi daily, to North America, where the same movements are executed by a solitary figure in a park.
