Norma Bailey

Norma Bailey is a Canadian film writer, producer, and director whose work is rooted in feminist and intersectional film theory. Bailey has directed several films, both in English and French and in various different genres, including fiction and non-fiction films. Her prolific career within the film industry has awarded her various awards and professional accolades including being named to the Order of Manitoba in 2010.

Career

Norma Bailey graduated from the University of Manitoba and began her film career as a production assistant on David Cronenberg’s Rabid. She joined the National Film Board of Canada, and her first short, The Performer, made for the Canada Vignettes series, won a jury prize for short film at the Cannes Film Festival. Bailey has since then had an extensive career writing, producing, and directing numerous shorts, documentaries, features, and television dramas including The Sheldon Kennedy Story for CTV, Cowboys and Indians: The Killing of J. J. Harper for CBC and the Genie Award–winning Bordertown Café in 1992, which was an adaptation of a play by Kelly Rebar. Norma Bailey also served as a producer for a four-part series Daughters of the Country about aboriginal women's interactions with white society.