Film Projects
Marian Frances White came to the film industry as a scriptwriter. Since 1998 she has produced and directed films.
White has had a variety of roles within the film industry. She was casting director for The Donald Marshall Story; the woman on the street in the critically acclaimed TV series, The Boys of St. Vincent, and the assistant producer on Sex, Drugs and HIV , a series for the Canadian Medical Association completed in 1998. In 1999 White wrote and produced her first film, The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland. This docudrama highlights and celebrates the thirty year struggle by women of Newfoundland to win the right to vote in 1925. Her film took awards in both Canada and the United States.
In 2000, White was named Artist of the Year by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. In 2002 White wrote and directed her second film, Fool Proof, a one-hour documentary that takes viewers on a roller coaster ride as they experience the rich history and art of clown and circus life. Other film projects include, an MOW Father’s Pride, of which she is seeking a UK co-producer, and a documentary on a 19th century photographer called The Elsie Holloway Story. She is currently in development with CBC TV on a children’s series, Laughter Shock."Perry's Cove Revisited" will be a short film told in poetic verse. It will be shot in Perry's Cove, Newfoundland using existing footage of White's family reunion and current movement along the coastline of those rugged shores. It will make use of ancestoral poems published in White's first collection of poetry, Skinny Dipping, as well as original poems written by her father, the late Terrence White.
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