Dorothy Burritt
Dorothy Burritt | |
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Dorothy Burritt poses for a portrait in her film Suite Two (1947) | |
| Born | Dorothy McLellan Fowler 1910 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | September 11, 1963 (aged 52–53) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | film society organizer |
| Years active | 1940-1963 |
Dorothy Burritt [née Fowler] (1910–1963) was a cinéaste, an experimental filmmaker, and a principal architect of the Canadian film society movement. In the 1930s, she was active in the Vancouver Branch of the National Film Society of Canada (VB/NFSC), which later became the Vancouver Film Society. In 1946, she co-founded the Film Survey Group of the Labor Arts Guild. She was also a co-founder of the Toronto Film Society (TFS) and the Canadian Federation of Film Societies (CFFS).
As an amateur filmmaker in Vancouver, Dorothy Burritt also created a few pioneering works of Canadian avant-garde cinema.