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List of potential filmmakers for Wikipedia project:


 * 1) Karen Walton - her existing Wikipedia page needs much elaboration and additional sourcing.  Potential sources include:   (A) Nelmes, Jill, and Selbo, Jule, eds. "Canada." Women Screenwriters : An International Guide. London: Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2015. Accessed September 19, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central. (B)  Molloy, Patricia. "Perpetual flight: the terror of biology and biology of terror in the Ginger Snaps trilogy." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 49, (2007): 1-1. Retrieved from http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc49.2007/GingerSnaps/text.html (C) Karen walton receives the 2018 nell shipman award. (2018, May 25). Canada NewsWire Retrieved from http://proxy.library.carleton.ca/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/docview/2043861348?accountid=9894
 * 2) Stina Bergman - her existing English-language Wikipedia page contains limited information and requires much elaboration and additional sourcing.  Potential sources include:  (A) Nelmes, Jill, and Selbo, Jule, eds. "Sweden." Women Screenwriters : An International Guide. London: Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2015. Accessed September 19, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central. (B) http://www.nordicwomeninfilm.com/person/stina-bergman/?lang=en (C) http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=person&itemid=60048#biography (!) More extensive research required to find English-language sources. Perhaps research from the angle of her filmography and/or history of Svensk Filmindustri (!)

Semi Chellas - her existing Wikipedia page could use expanding. Her current page only has two main sources and the information written about her is not categorised.  Potential sources include:  (A) Leigh, Stuart. "Frank, Chellas and Crew Reteam for Knife." Playback : Canada's Broadcast and Production Journal (Nov 12, 2007): 30, http://proxy.library.carleton.ca/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/docview/196342110?accountid=9894 (accessed September 19, 2018). (B) "New CBC Series Delves into World of TV News." Sudbury Star, Nov 22, 2002, http://proxy.library.carleton.ca/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/docview/348854219?accountid=9894 (accessed September 19, 2018). (C) Mckay, John. "CTV's the Eleventh Hour Rooted in Reality:" Observer, Nov 21, 2002, http://proxy.library.carleton.ca/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/docview/348199676?accountid=9894 (accessed September 19, 2018). (D) Nelmes, Jill, and Selbo, Jule, eds. "Canada." Women Screenwriters : An International Guide. London: Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2015. Accessed September 19, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central.

= Karen Walton (Draft Article) =

Walton moved to Edmonton, Alberta where she later began her career in film making. Recognition for her local work in screen writing led to her attendance at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto during the 1990's. Walton has since been recognised for multiple awards and has several screen writing and producing credits to her name. Her writing contribution towards Ginger Snaps (2000) has received both critical scrutiny and academic analysis.

Background
Karen Walton is from Halifax, Nova Scotia and grew up in the nearby locale of Dartmouth. She later moved out West during her teens to the suburbs of Edmonton, Alberta. It has been accounted by Variety that Walton had experience in acting before she began to focus primarily on script writing. Walton began her work in the film industry by working for local film production companies in Edmonton. Walton’s early work in script-writing gained traction when she entered into a CBC radio play contest during the early 1990’s. After winning the contest, Walton was recognised and given access to studies in screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre. Walton later became a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre for her studies in film writing. She has since been credited with establishing the online community, inkcanada – Canadian Screenwriters and their Sketchy Friends, a digital venue whereby Canadian and international screenwriters can share their ideas.

Awards
In May of 2018, Walton received the Nell Shipman Award in Toronto for her contributions in Canadian film and television. Walton has won the Margaret Collier Award for screenwriting in 2016; an award offered by the Canadian Screen Academy. Other past awards received by Walton include a Crystal Award for Women in Film and Television and the Denis McGrath Award for her contributions to screenwriters.

Work in Ginger Snaps (2000)
Walton’s initial writing for Ginger Snaps was titled 'Wolfer Grrrls'. It was done in collaboration with director, John Fawcett, as well as other creative think-tanks taking place at the Canadian Film centre during the late 1990’s. Walton has since worked with John Fawcett on other writing projects; one example being for the television series Orphan Black. While writing for Ginger Snaps however, Walton has been credited with having had significant creative leeway in how she re-formulated certain classic horror genre tropes under an alternative feminist lens. Walton’s subversion of typical representations for societal minority groups is a running characteristic throughout much of her written work in film and television. Indeed, her collaboration with Fawcett saw that details to mark protagonists, Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald as ‘other’ from accompanying characters also fell into the department of costuming. The idea was that the protagonists could not fit into a typical high school group in both world view and visual style. Walton’s experience in having lived in suburbs is also a factor that influenced the setting of Ginger Snaps. Ernest Mathijs recounts that the sameness of the residential buildings often seen in Canadian suburbs inspired much of the fictional setting for ‘Baily Downs’. It is specified that Walton lived in the Sherwood Park suburb of Edmonton and it is alluded to by Mathijs as a source for some of her inspiration.

Critical Reception of Ginger Snaps (2000)
Ginger Snaps has been analysed and critiqued for its ability to satirise the puberty-related biological changes that occur during female adolescence and has been mentioned by Patricia Molloy as an example of ‘witty’ writing by Walton on such subject matters. Other critiques like that of Katherine Monk, places Ginger Snaps in the broader category of Canadian cinema and links the film’s sexual-related narrative elements to a perceived ‘Canadian-psyche’ whereby having no control over one’s sexual desires is purportedly more frightening. Monk also criticises the film for focusing too heavily on gory motifs that she finds typical of the horror genre as a whole.

Controversies
During the pre-production of Ginger Snaps there was some controversy over the violent subject matter in the film’s writing. Walton was criticised in local media for contributing to a culture of teenage violence. This was in-part due to the prevalence of high school shooting news stories in the media during the late 1990s in North America. Walton’s male colleagues however received a lack of critical scrutiny.

Filmography (screenwriting)

 * Orphan Black (2013-2014)


 * Queer as Folk (2002)


 * Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (2001)


 * Ginger Snaps (2000)


 * The Many Trials of One Jane Doe (2002)
 * The Listener (2012)
 * Flashpoint (2011)
 * The Human Kazoo (2004)
 * Bury the Lead (2003-2004)
 * Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
 * The City (1999-2000)
 * Straight Up (1998)
 * Elevated (1996)