Director

Cynthia Scott

Directing

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 1All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 1078813

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1939

Age: 87

Place of birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1972 - 2023

Years active: 52

Average TMDB rating: 7.2

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Director (6)Producer (2)Executive Producer (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Cynthia Scott RCA (born January 1, 1939) is a Canadian award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, written, and edited several films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Her works have won the Oscar and Canadian Film Award. Scott is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her projects with the NFB are mainly focused on documentary filmmaking. Some of Scott's most notable documentaries for the NFB feature dancing and the dance world including Flamenco at 5:15 (1983), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984.

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