Bio / C.V.
Marian Frances White was born into a family of twelve on November 18, 1954 in Carbonear,Newfoundland. Her parents are Florence and Terrence White. Marian attended Memorial University of Newfoundland where she studied English, French and Spanish and later went to Carleton University, Ottawa to study Journalism. Marian travelled extensively in France before returning to Newfoundland and to Memorial University where she studied poetry and film.
On the subject of film, in the 1990's Marian studied film in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia and at the Algonquin College Filmmakers Summer School in Ottawa. She has also trained at NIFCO - Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-op where she took courses in writing and directing for film.
Below is a selection of career highlights:
2003 Mind Your Eyes poetry book published by Killick Press 2003 Producer/Scriptwriter, LaughterShock kids TV series 2000 -
2002Director/Scriptwriter for Fool Proof circus documentary 1999 Producer/Scriptwriter for historical docudrama The Untold Story 1998 Published The Untold Story Chapbook #1, a booklet that outlines the research to unearth the story of Newfoundland Suffragists 1997 -
199 8Co-Writer of Social History Series #2. Produced by the Writers Alliance of NF 1996 Skinny Dipping, White’s first book of poetry. Published by gynergy books, P.E.I. 1995 WTN (now called WE) Writing On The Wall, featured poetry on TV program 1995 The Eldamar Cookbook, a fine vegan cuisine Published by Creative Publishers, NF. Celebrating recipes from twenty years as a vegetarian 1993 -
1996Writer/Editor A Woman’s Almanac - Voices from Atlantic Canada, an annual agenda book that profiled twelve women each year. Creative Publishers 1994 DISCOVER CANADA -- NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
GROLIER LTD. A current history of the province. Second edition released in 1997; French Translation 19981994 A Woman’s Labour - book and tape series that includes interviews and stories from various A Woman’s Almanac profiles. Published by WANL. 1987 -
1992Writer/Editor A Woman’s Almanac - Newfoundland and Labrador edition, Published by Breakwater Books, NF 1992 The Finest Kind, Writer/Editor. A compendium of seventy-two Almanac profiles 1991 Not A Still Life - the art and writings of artist Rae Perlin Killick Press, NF: over 100 art reproductions; editor. FILMOGRAPHY 2004 Perry's Cove Revisited will be a short poetic film about White's
Room, her ancestral home on the eastern edge of the Atlantic Ocean2003 -
2004Writer for film script The Elsie Holloway Story: a personal look at the life and work of a major Newfoundland photographer, including the historical landscape of photography 2003 Scriptwriter/producer LaughterShock, kids TV series,
in development with CBC TV2002 Script writer/director for clown/circus documentary, Fool Proof, released December 2002, Vision TV and NTV 2000 Chapbook for the Department of Education and Women’s Policy office to accompany the high school classroom study of my film, The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland 1999 Producer/Scriptwriter The Untold Story -- a docudrama on the women’s suffrage movement of NF, 1892 - 1925 AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS 1997 -
2002Member of Producers Association of Newfoundland
Member of Writers Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador
Member of League of Canadian Poets
Member St. John’s Status of Women Council
Member of FOG, Friends of the Botanical GardenArtist of the Year 2000 Named by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, Sponsored by Newtel and CBC TV 2000 Nominated for History Documentary Award
Yorkton Film Festival, Saskatchewan1999 Documentary, 3rd place Award at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, California 1995 Poetry Award, Department of English, MUN
