Quote:
"The principal advocate behind the notion of establishing a women's film studio, per se, was Kathleen Shannon, who had first championed the idea in 1971 during the heyday of the Film Board's 'grass roots' film program, Challenge for Change. Shannon, as the new studio's executive producer, was to become the first woman to head an NFB film unit since the Second World War. Between 1971 and 1973 she almost single-handedly produced, directed and edited a set of ten consciousness-raising documentaries about the plight of working mothers. [...] Shannon's 'Working Mothers' films, along with the five francophone productions of the 'En tant que femmes' film series produced by Anne Claire Poirier, were met with an overwhelming response by the Canadian public."
-- Chris Scherbarth

Source:
Scherbarth, Chris. "Canada's Studio D: A Women's Room with an International Reputation." Canadian Woman Studies / Les Cahiers de la femme 8, no. 1 (Spring 1987). (pp. 24-25)