Erna Buffie

Erna Buffie has scripted a variety of acclaimed documentaries and dramas for the National Film Board and independent producers. Most recently, she wrote the narration for the NFB co-produced two-part series on new reproductive technologies entitled On the Eight Day (1992), which premiered on CBC. This year, Buffie will co-write and co-direct the Studio D co-production If People Mattered: Women and the Creation of a New Science. In 1991, she co-wrote the award-winning NFB co-production A Song for Tibet, focusing on the Chinese occupation of Tibet, and scripted the NFB co-production Just Before the Dawn, about women's organizations in the Honduras. Buffie's 1990 screenwriting credits include another pair of NFB co-productions: she wrote the narration for The Burning Times (1990), an in-depth look at the persecution of women as witches, and co-wrote Fair Trade, about women traders in Tanzania.
Her dramatic screenwriting credits include the Genie Award-nominated short drama The Journey Home (1989), which was co-produced by the NFB. She also wrote and directed Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis (1991), an educational spin-off from Donald Brittain's monumental series The King Chronicle. In 1989, she scripted the independently-produced 1989 half-hour drama The Light Brigade. (05/00)

The Pill
A film by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone, 1999, 45 min., Color
Conceived to help women control their fertility, the birth control pill was a touchstone for sexual liberation in the 1960s and is now used by million...