Education

BA, MA (Carleton), PhD (York)

Biography

Professor Longfellow has published articles on documentary, Indigenous cinemas, feminist film theory, eco cinema and Canadian cinema in Public, Camera Obscura, Indigenous Media Arts in Canada, Screen, and the Journal of Canadian Film Studies. She is a co-editor (with Scott MacKenzie and Tom Waugh) of the anthology The Perils of Pedagogy: the Works of John Greyson (2013) and Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women Filmmakers (1992). Her documentaries have been screened and broadcast internationally, winning prestigious awards including the Audience Award for Best Experimental Film for Dead Ducks at the Santa Cruz Film Festival (2011); A Bronze Remi Award for Weather Report at the Houston Film Festival (2008); Best Cultural Documentary for Tina in Mexico at the Havana International Film Festival (2002); a Canadian Genie for Shadowmaker/ Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) and the Grand Prix at Oberhausen for Our Marilyn (1988). Other films include Gerda, (1992), A Balkan Journey(1996) and Carpe Diem (2010).
Since 2012, she has been working in immersive and interactive documentary and co-directed OFFSHORE, co-directed with Glen Richards and Helios Design Lab. http://offshore-interactive.com/site/. In 2022 she co-created INTRAVENE, a binaural audio experience co-produced with the UK Theatre company Darkfield which explored the opiod crisis in Vancouver and premiered at the Tribeca Festival in 2022 https://www.darkfield.org/radioshows. Since 2019, she has co-directed The Circle Project, an evolving association of formerly incarcerated women and artists in Vancouver. Their productions have been exhibited at the Audain Museum in Whistler and the Japanese Embassy in Tokyo https://thecircleproject.online/.