Barbara Doran

Newfoundland-based director and producer Barbara Doran's career has run the gamut from love to murder. She has produced or directed over 20 films, including her ground-breaking documentary When Women Kill (Silver Plaque, New York Festivals, 1984), which profiles three battered women who killed their husbands. Her short film A Harbour Symphony (1991) was in official competition at Cannes. In Joey Smallwood: Between Scoundrels and Saints (1999) she offers up a compelling biography of the man who brought Newfoundland into confederation. And The Perfect Hero, (Bronze, Columbus International Festival, 1999) explores the world of romance novels. Doran produced her first dramatic series, the eight-hour international co-production Random Passage. The saga of a group of exiles in a Newfoundland outport in the early 1800s, the series drew huge ratings when it first aired on CBC-TV in early 2002 and won two Gemini awards. (7/07)

Voices of Change
A 5-part series by Lyn Wright and Barbara Doran, 1996, 92 min., 5 in series, Color
An wide ranging examination both of individual activism and issues facing women worldwide this inspiring five-part documentary offers invaluable insig...