
Person
Cynthia Scott
Directing · Born 1939-01-01 · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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.
Known for

American Playhouse
Director

The Company of Strangers
Director

The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine
Director

Canada Vignettes: The Thirties
Producer

Some Natives of Churchill
Producer

Flamenco at 5:15
Director

First Winter
Writer
Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem
Director

Canada Vignettes: Holidays
Producer

Scoggie
Director
Filmography
- 2023The House on Jonathan StreetExecutive Producer
- 1990The Company of StrangersDirector
- 1986Jack of HeartsDirector
- 1985Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic ProblemDirector
- 1983Flamenco at 5:15Director
- 1982First WinterWriter
- 1982American PlayhouseDirector
- 1978Canada Vignettes: HolidaysProducer
- 1978Canada Vignettes: The ThirtiesProducer
- 1975ScoggieDirector
- 1973Some Natives of ChurchillProducer
- 1972The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-JustineDirector
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