Jennifer Hodge de Silva

Jennifer Hodge de Silva[1]
Born 28 January 1951[1]
Montréal, Quebec[1]
Died 5 May 1989
Montréal, Quebec[1]
Cause of death cancer[2]
Nationality Canadian
Citizenship Canadian
Education Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Arts (1974)
Alma mater Glendon College at York University, Toronto
Known for filmmaking
Notable work Home Feeling: A Struggle for Community (1983)[1]
Movement Black liberalism[2]
Spouse(s) Paul de Silva in 1982[2]
Children Zinzi[2]
Parent(s) Mairuth Vaughan Hodge Sarsfield and Cullen Squire Hodge[2]
Relatives Lucille Vaughn

Jennifer Hodge de Silva (1951-1989) was an African-Canadian filmmaker.[1][2] Her film, Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, revealed tensions between and police and residents of the Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto. The residents were mainly immigrants from Jamaica and Africa.[2][3] She was the "first black filmmaker to work consistently with both the National Film Board of Canada and the CBC".[4][5]

Career

In 1978 she worked with Terence Macartney-Filgate on the film Fields of Endless Day as assistant director and associate producer while she was a student. The next year she worked with him again as associate producer of the CBC documentary Dieppe 1942.[2] Her documentaries "covered a range of social issues, telling the stories of Chinese-Canadian immigrants, Indigenous artists and diverse neighbourhoods."[5]

Hodge de Silva directed a number of films during the 1980s that established the dominant mode in African Canadian film culture. Working exclusively in the documentary and often on sponsored films, she staked out a set of concerns and a mode of production that might be termed black liberalism.[6]

Cameron Bailey, a Canadian film critic and artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, acknowledged her work in his 1990 article later published in a film anthology.[7][8]:94[9] Bailey "honoured the work of black filmmakers like Jennifer Hodge de Silva who worked in 'marginalized' forms of production, sometimes making sponsored films for organizations like the John Howard Society or the Toronto Board of Education".[8][9]

Selected filmography

  • Jennifer Hodge and Roger McTair (1983). Home Feeling: A Struggle for Community (film). Toronto: National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 14 April 2017.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Leslea Kroll; Andrew McIntosh (12 March 2007). "Jennifer Hodge da Silva". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jennifer Hodge de Silva (1951-1989) Documentary Filmmaker, Celebrating Women's Achievements, Library and Archives Canada, retrieved 14 April 2016
  3. ↑ Jennifer Hodge and Roger McTair (1983), Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, National Film Board of Canada 57 min, retrieved April 14, 2017
  4. ↑ Jennifer Hodge de Silva: Screenings for social change, Black History Month showcase: In celebration of those who changed history in the shadow of racism, The Fulcrum Canadian University Press (CUP) University of Ottawa, 16 February 2017, retrieved 14 April 2017
  5. 1 2 Amanda Parris (10 February 2017), 7 African-Canadian female filmmakers you need to know: These are the Canadian movies to watch during Black History Month and beyond, CBC Arts, retrieved 14 April 2017, Hodge's best-known work, [Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community (1983)] was one of the first attempts to explore the deep-seated tension between black communities and the Toronto Police Services. Through candid interviews, the film reveals the systemic racism of the police force and the rage that simmered in the largely immigrant community of Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhood.
  6. ↑ Cameron Bailey, 1990, "A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva", CineAction
  7. ↑ "Cameron Bailey named artistic director of Toronto International Film Festival" National Post, March 14, 2012.
  8. 1 2 Cameron Bailey (1999). "Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault, eds. A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva. Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto. pp. 94–108.
  9. 1 2 Cameron Bailey (1990). "A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva". CineAction. winter (23): 4–12.
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