BIOGRAPHY
Terry Dawes is a filmmaker and writer, living in Montreal, who grew up on
Prince Edward Island. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree, majoring in Film
Production, from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree,
majoring in Film/Video, from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in
Vancouver, British Columbia. He is currently completing a short narrative
film entitled “Autrefois”. In the summer of 2002, he gave an artist’s talk at the Or Gallery in Vancouver entitled “Be Seeing You” based on an essay he wrote, the subject of which was the representation of community identity through tourism and its effect on individual identities. The essay referenced “Anne of Green Gables” and its effect on the culture of Prince Edward Island, as well as “The Prisoner”,
a British television show from the 1960s, about a spy who is imprisoned in
a seaside resort.
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