Dionne Brand

An established writer and poet, and director of "Listening For Something...Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation", Dionne Brand's most recent filmmaking credits include the 1993 NFB documentary "Long Time Comin'" highlights their work, their politics, their lesbian sexuality, and their insistence that their art sustains a relevant political edge. "Long Time Comin'" is the third film in Studio D's "Women at the Well" series.

In 1991, Brand directed the award-winning documentary "Sisters in the Struggle", the second film in "Women at the Well". This 50-minute documentary features Black women who are active in community, labour and feminist organising, and electoral politics, who share insights and personal testimonies about racism and sexism. Brand was also associate director and writer of "Older Stronger Wiser" (1989), the first film in "Women at the Well".

Brand's latest published work includes the novel "In Another Place, Not Here" (1996) and the collection of essays "Bread Out of Stone" (1994). She also co-authored the 1994 anthologies "A Grammar of Dissent" and "We're Rooted Here, They Can't Pull Us Up". Her many published works also include "No Burden To Carry--Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920's to 1950's" (1991), a collection of oral histories; the poetry collections "Primitive Offensive" (1983), "Chronicles of the Hostile Sun" (1984) and "No Language is Neutral" (1990), which was nominated for a Governor General's Award and the Trillium Book Prize; and "Sans Souci and Other Stories" (1988).

Brand's writing has also been featured in numerous anthologies, including the "Anthology of Canadian Literature" (Oxford University Press) and "The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse." (09/09)

Listening for Something
A film by Dionne Brand, 1996, 56 min., Color
This intriguing exchange between eminent American poet Adrienne Rich and Trinidadian-Canadian poet/filmmaker Dionne Brand, who share strong feminist a...