Filmmaker: Dorothea Mitchell

Photo of Dorothea Mitchell, The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society

Dorothea Mitchell

Gender:

Female

Films:

Race for Ties, A (1929)

• Video: Streamable on Vimeo via Shebafilms

Sleep-Inn Beauty (1930)

Fatal Flower, The (1930)

• Video: the Fatal Flower Project completed film, via ShebaFilms (Vimeo)

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Biographical Notes:

British-born, India-raised Mitchell filmed the first feature-length amateur film in Canada. For a full and detailed biography of Dorothea Mitchell visit the Women Film Pioneers Project.