Bonnie Sherr Klein (born 1 April 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a feminist filmmaker, author, and disability rights activist. She graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in broadcasting and film and then worked in New York City with George Stoney. She and her husband, Michael Klein, immigrated to Canada from the United States in 1967 as resisters to the Vietnam War She is the mother of Naomi Klein, the political writer a...
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Bonnie Sherr Klein (born 1 April 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a feminist filmmaker, author, and disability rights activist. She graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in broadcasting and film and then worked in New York City with George Stoney. She and her husband, Michael Klein, immigrated to Canada from the United States in 1967 as resisters to the Vietnam War She is the mother of Naomi Klein, the political writer and film-maker.
Klein worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in Montreal as a director and producer in the late 1960s. Between that time and the late 1980s, she made dozens of films there. In 1975, she joined Studio D, the NFB's women's section, which was the first government-funded film studio dedicated to women filmmakers in the world In 1981, Klein made what is probably her best-known film, the anti-pornography documentary Not a Love Story. It went on to become one of the most popular and commercially successful films the NFB...
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