Holly Dale
Country: Canada
Born: 1953
Films directed by Holly Dale
Quotes by Holly Dale
"There's not much difference to be a good documentary filmmaker and to
be a
good dramatic one, you just have to be able to understand people. You
have to
know what buttons to push and when to push them, you have to be
sensitive to the
needs of the subjects or the actors."
-- Holly Dale
(source)
"We [Janis Cole and I] were unconsciously making films that were trying to remove labels from people, which later became a very conscious thing for us when we started doing Prison for Women and Hookers on Davie. We started out by giving a voice to our friends who weren't ashamed of who they were or what they did, such as being a prostitute, or being gay."
-- Holly Dale
(source)
Quotes about Holly Dale
"While [Janis] Cole and [Holly] Dale have recently described themselves as feminist, and while their work often deals with women, it by no means limits itself to gender issues, women's lives, or feminist themes. Casting a wide net predominantly outside the middle-class mainstream, their body of work is marked most urgently by its attention to marginalized registers of society and predominantly to resisters of social injustice."
-- Kay Armatage
(source)
"Janis Cole and Holly Dale have explored the margins of society in jointly-made documentaries about body-rub parlours, transvestites, prostitutes, and prison inmates. Their films, often empirical in style, present their subjects without moral judgement or analytical commentary; however, by including details that suggest parallels with the routines and norms of non-deviant behaviour and feelings, they display a passionate humanism."
-- David Clandfield
(source)
"Janis Cole and Holly Dale are only twenty-three years old but already they
have four short films behind them. [...] They have ambition, energy, and a
restless urge to describe the world the way they believe it should be
described. Their subjects are whores, transvestites, and criminally insane
young men, and their films are gripping because Holly and Janis are
committed not only to their own remarkable young careers but to the lives
of their subjects."
-- Robert Fulford
(source)
For QUOTES about a specific film by Holly Dale, please see: Thin Line
P4W: Prison for Women
Hookers on Davie
Calling the Shots
Blood & Donuts
Notes about Holly Dale
- Born in Toronto.
- Janis Cole and Holly Dale began making films together when they were students at Sheridan College in Ontario.
- From a working class background in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood.
- Left home at age fifteen.
(sources)
Bibliography for
Holly
Dale
Section 1: Publications by Holly Dale
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Cole, Janis, and Holly Dale. Calling the Shots: Profiles
of Women Filmmakers. Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press, 1993.
Section 2: Publications about Holly Dale
Book Chapters
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Armatage, Kay. "Janis Cole and Holly Dale's Cinema of Marginality."
In North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, edited by William Beard and Jerry White, 122-143. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002.
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Hays, Matthew. "Janis Cole and Holly Dale: Out from the Margins."
Interview with Janis Cole, Holly Dale.
In The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers, 54-66. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Fulford, Robert [Marshall Delaney, pseud.]. "Brutal art from mean streets." Saturday Night, June 1978.
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Koller, George Csaba. "Street people." Interview with Janis Cole, Holly Dale. Cinema Canada, September-October 1978.
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Mills, Sonja. "Double direct: Holly Dale & Janis Cole." Body Politic, May 1984.
Web Sites
Section 3: Publications about the Films of Holly Dale
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Nelson, Joyce. "Thin Line." Review of Thin Line. Cinema Canada, September-October 1978.
P4W: Prison for Women
(1981) (also known as:
"Prison for Women")
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Feindel, Pat. "P4W an honest portrayal of life inside Women's prison." Review of P4W: Prison for Women. Kinesis, April 1982.
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Jackson, Marni. "Social ecology of harsh places." Maclean's, October 12, 1981.
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Keefe Rhodes, Nancy. "Key Canadian films by women." Stylus Magazine, October 24, 2007.
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Variety. "P4W: Prison for Women." Review of P4W: Prison for Women. Variety, September 9, 1981.
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Yacowar, Maurice. "P4W: Prison for Women." Review of P4W: Prison for Women. Cinema Canada, November 1981.
Hookers on Davie
(1984) (also known as:
"Davie Street")
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Bearchell, Chris. "Hookers on Davie." Review of Hookers on Davie. Body Politic, May 1984.
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Harkness, John, and Joyce Nelson. "Nightworld: An interview with Janis Cole and Holly Dale." Interview with Janis Cole, Holly Dale. Cinema Canada, June 1984.
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Variety. "Hookers on Davie Street." Review of Hookers on Davie. Variety, April 11, 1984.
Calling the Shots
(1988) (also known as:
"Women in Cinema")
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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McKie, Paul. "Women directors are focus of film." Interview with Janis Cole. Winnipeg Free Press, February 4, 1989.
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Mietkiewicz, Henry. "Women movie directors examine the big picture." Interview with Holly Dale. Toronto Star, April 13, 1987.
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Scott, Jay. "Calling the Shots." Review of Calling the Shots. Globe and Mail, September 24, 1988.
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Steed, Judy. "In person: Festival of Festivals: View from director's chair intrigues documentary team." Interview with Janis Cole, Holly Dale. Globe and Mail, September 14, 1988.
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Variety. "Calling the Shots." Review of Calling the Shots. Variety, October 19, 1988.
Blood & Donuts
(1995) (also known as:
"Blood and Donuts")
Book Chapters
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Baldassarre, Angela. "Holly Dale: Blood & Donuts."
In Reel Canadians:
Interviews from the Canadian Film World, 37-44. Toronto: Guernica, 2003.
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Baldassarre, Angela. "Holly Dale serves up Blood & Donuts." Interview with Holly Dale. Take One (Toronto), Autumn 1994.
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Johnson, Brian D. "Games people play: Blood
and Donuts directed by Holly Dale." Review of Blood & Donuts. Maclean's, November 13, 1995.
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Kelly, Brendan. "Blood & Donuts." Review of Blood & Donuts. Variety, October 9, 1995.
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Laurendeau, Francine. "Fidèle comme un vampire." Review of Blood & Donuts. Le Devoir, November 10, 1995.
[in French]
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Perreault, Luc. "Du sang et des beignes? Beurk!" Review of Blood & Donuts. La Presse, November 11, 1995.
[in French]
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