Lyn Wright

Lyn Wright admits it, she's hooked. This award-winning director of documentaries on social issues says she was never much of a hockey fan before starting work on THE GAME OF HER LIFE. Now, after a few months of filming the Canadian women's team, she's a "nervous wreck" every time the puck is dropped.
"I've become an impassioned fan," Wright says. "When we're filming a game, it's sometimes hard for me to focus on what I'm supposed to be doing because I get totally involved in the action. I'm like a nervous mother: if one of the players gets hurt, I feel it!"
Her credits include a number of recent NFB productions and co-productions that have aired on the CBC Network and CBC Newsworld. In 1995, Wright directed Canadian, Australian and Latvian segments for Voices of Change, a portrait of women in five countries. Before its CBC broadcast, this feature documentary premiered at the World Film Festival in Montreal and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Wright directed the 1994 documentary Children for Hire, an investigation into child labour in Canada that aired on CBC Newsworld. In 1990, she directed the award-winning 1990 NFB production Playing for Keeps, featuring three dramatically different stories about unwanted teen pregnancies, which garnered an audience of over 870,000 viewers when it pre-empted the Fifth Estate on CBC. Witness later rebroadcast this powerful film.
She also wrote and directed the three-part NFB series The Elderly at Risk. The first film in the series, A House Divided (1988), sheds light on the tragedy of elder abuse. Broadcast on UK's Channel 4, Mr. Nobody (1989) asks whether authorities should intervene in the lives of self-neglecting older people. Don't Take My Sunshine Away (1991) explores innovative support programs for frail elderly people, and was telecast on PBS.
Other NFB credits for Wright include Dad's House, Mom's House (1985), which examined the pros and cons of divorced couples sharing custody of their children.
Wright's independent credits include a documentary film for the BBC entitled Sisters of Mersey, about three indomitable older women who embody the spirit of Liverpool with their different approaches to community needs. Over the years Wright has maintained an avid interest in her first love - drama - working at Playwrights Canada in the CBC Drama Department as well as the theatre.

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...