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Dominique Cardona (born 1955) is an Argentinian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. She works primarily but not exclusively in collaboration with Laurie Colbert.
A film by Dominique Cardona, 1997, 55 min, Color. MY FEMINISM is a critically important look at second wave feminism in the 1990’s, a time rife with anti-feminist backlash.
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Laurie Colbert:Dom and I met 32 years ago and bonded, to a large degree, over our shared love of film. We never thought of being filmmakers — Dom was a civil servant; I was working as an English teacher. While living in Paris, we started to meet a lot of filmmakers and saw hundreds of films at the French Cinematheque and the Creteil Women’s Interna...
LC: We believe that being a feminist is not so much a choice as an imperative for anyone who has the luxury of free speech, which we do as Canadians. The reason we became filmmakers is that we felt compelled to share the reality of women’s experience. For us, feminism is really about self-determinism and an end to racial, gender and sexual oppressi...
LC: Right now we’re in the planning stages of a film or TV series about a gay tween who is becoming aware of her sexuality in a time where social media is trying to define it for her. As the daughter of recent immigrants, her journey is complicated by her parents’ support of movements (#MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter) that she knows she should care about...
LC: We’re both in love with The Woman Who Loves Giraffes directed by Alison Reid. It’s a beautifully-crafted documentary about scientist Anne Innis Dagg, arguably the first person to study an animal in the African wild, who pushed through aggressive sexism to follow her passion only to end up in virtual obscurity. The film is an amazing reclamation...
Sep 17, 2023 · Documentary about the diversity of lesbian identities, featuring Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Lee Pui Ming, Becki Ross, Julia Creet, LaVerne Monette, Sarah Schulman, Chris Bearchell, Chris Phibbs, Christine Delphy and Jeanelle Laillou, speaking on issues ranging from coming out, racism, bisexuality, and SM, to the evolution of the feminist and...
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Dominique Cardona was born in 1955 in Algeria. She is a director and assistant director, known for Margarita (2012), Finn's Girl (2007) and Keely and Du (2018).
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Colbert and her partner of 27 years, Dominique Cardona, worked together on many award winning films, including THANK GOD I’M A LESBIAN and 2007’s FINN’S GIRL. The focus of Colbert’s work is uplifting stories about present-day struggles for the LGBT community.
Colbert and her partner of 27 years, Dominique Cardona, worked together on many award winning films, including THANK GOD I’M A LESBIAN and 2007’s FINN’S GIRL. The focus of Colbert’s work is uplifting stories about present-day struggles for the LGBT community.
