D is for Daring

... . The number of women in positions of filmmaking control has actually decreased by four percent since 2001. So Gail Vanstone's history of Canada's all female film production unit, the Academy Award-winning National Film Board Studio D, is a timely reflection on gender equity in the cultural industries. Who has access to filmmaking, the most universally consumed storytelling of our time? Who determines which stories are told?....

D is for Daring documents the years between 1974 and 1996, when sisters with cameras were doing it for themselves... . Vanstone's valuable primary research for this project ensures that the early history of feminist film in Canada is not lost... . ... . there are important lessons to be learned from D is for Daring and the rollicking rise and tragic fall of Canada's feminist film studio. D is for Daring lays the groundwork for other examinations of this cautionary tale, and for further analysis of the effects of dismantling oh-so-many Canadian feminist institutions and structures.