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Read Donna
Read started working at the National Film Board in 1963 as a free-lance writer and production assistant, and four years later began apprenticing as a film editor. In 1973, she went on to direct her first film, Kripalu, which was shot in India. Following a five-year hiatus, Read returned in 1981 as a free-lance editor for Studio D, the women's unit of the NFB. She went on to edit such films as It's Just Better, The Way It Is, Too Dirty for a Woman and Behind the Veil: Nuns, a two-part film that traces the history of women in the Catholic church. Donna Read's most recent project has been researching, directing, and co-editing three one-hour documentaries on women and spirituality. These include Goddess Remembered, which looks at pre-historic goddess-worshipping societies, The Burning Times and Full Circle.
