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Barbara Doran (Director / Producer)
Barbara Doran lives in Newfoundland and has been producing and
directing films for over 25 years. As founder of Morag Productions,
Passage Films and Morag Loves Company her award winning work
in documentary and drama has been broadcast nationally and internationally.
Her films have documented the sweatshops in Guatemala, women
prisoners in Pakistan, serial killers on death row, AIDS workers
in Soweto, market women in Africa, romance writers, and electromagnetic
weapons in the U.S.
Doran’s dramatic mini-series, Gemini award winning, RANDOM PASSAGE (2001), played to record audiences on CBC TV. As a co-producer
she recently completed YOUNG
TRIFFIE’S BEEN MADE AWAY WITH, a feature comedy
directed by Mary Walsh (a QC/NL co-production with Cinémaginaire
(The Barbarian Invasions). Dramas she is developing include: LOVE & SAVAGERY,
(an international co-production with Morag, Park Ex Pictures
and Subotica Entertainment); SURFING
IN NEWFOUNDLAND (a co-production with Morag and Cirrus
Communications); and ALLIGATOR based on the award winning novel by Lisa Moore.
Doran is actively involved in the film community with membership
in the Film Producer’s Association of Newfoundland,
the Writer’s Guild of Canada, the Directors’ Guild
of Canada, The Canadian Film and Television Production Association,
The Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative and the
Atlantic Studios Co-operative. She currently sits on the board
of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and Chairs
the Cape Random Trust. |
