Canadian Women Film Directors Database
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Quote:
"Before 1970, only one feature film [in Quebec] was directed by a woman: De mère en fille by Anne Claire Poirier at the National Film Board."
-- Jocelyne Denault


Source:
Denault, Jocelyne. "A Short History of Women in Film in Quebec: Behind the Camera but Behind the Men." In Changing Focus: The Future for Women in the Canadian Film and Television Industry, edited by Toronto Women in Film and Television. Toronto: Toronto Women in Film and Television, 1991. (p. 128)