BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1843@events.nfb.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/St_Johns:20241030T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/St_Johns:20241030T221500 DTSTAMP:20241022T184805Z URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/a-return-to-memory/ SUMMARY:A Return to Memory DESCRIPTION:The Clarenville Heritage Society invites you to attend a by-don ation screening of\n\nA RETURN TO MEMORY - directed by Don McWilliams\, 11 6 min | 2024\n\nThe intrepid women who helped create Canadian cinema come to vibrant life in A Return to Memory\, a fascinating documentary illumina ting their vital but little-known role in establishing Canada’s National Film Board.\n\nJuxtaposing a dazzling array of archival material with dyn amic animation\, the film evokes the heady wartime years\, when\, with men engaged elsewhere in the war effort\, hundreds of women pursued careers a t the newly formed public producer\, playing a key part in transforming th e NFB into a major international studio.\n\nFilm historians often point to films like Corral (1954) and Paul Tomkowicz (1953) as the beginning of Canada’s distinct documentary tradition\, but Gudrun Bjerring Parker wa s doing it first\, with films like Before They Are Six (1943) and Listen to the Prairies (1945). Bjerring Parker is among an extraordinary cohort of women featured in A Return to Memory\, a masterwork of archival cinema that rediscovers the women and their work\, and rewrites documentary histo ry.\n\n \;\n\nWatch an excerpt: https://vimeo.com/946646845\n\n \; \n\nAll are welcome. No preregistration is required. By donation.\n\nFor m ore information\, write to info@clarenvilleheritage.ca  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.nfb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09 /AReturnToMemory_Grab_10192814-e1727878200826.jpg CATEGORIES:Free Event,Screenings LOCATION:Clarenville Twin Cinemas\, 46 Tilleys Road\, Clarenville\, Newfoun dland\, A5A 1Z2\, Canada GEO:48.150367;-53.967268 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=46 Tilleys Road\, Clarenvil le\, Newfoundland\, A5A 1Z2\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Clarenvill e Twin Cinemas:geo:48.150367,-53.967268 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/St_Johns X-LIC-LOCATION:America/St_Johns BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0430 TZOFFSETTO:-0330 TZNAME:NDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR