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Mary Anne McEwen (July 9, 1945 - May 11, 2011) was a Canadian media producer, director, writer and LGBTQ advocate.

Early Life
McEwen was raised in Kitimat, British Columbia. She was educated at University of British Columbia with a BA in Fine Arts, Literature and Anthropology (1963-1967) and President of Women’s Council, Lower Mall Residences (now Vanier Place). Between 1970 and 1972, she took film and video workshops at Simon Fraser University, going on to earn a MA in Liberal Studies.

Career
McEwan was President and Creative Director of Forward Focus Productions Ltd. from 1977-1997, co-founder of Gayblevision in 1980, and was a freelance writer, editor, analyst and story editor from 1998-2011. Active in Vancouver’s feminist, LGBT and women in film and television communities, McEwan was also a founding board member of Vancouver’s Out On Screen Festival, now Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and founding member of Women In Film and Video Vancouver. McEwen’s personal archive is held at the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive, a department of VIVO Media Arts Centre, in Vancouver, BC. The collection includes original video, film, photographs, textual materials, and ephemera documenting her professional production history.

Gayblevision
Mary Ann McEwen was a co-producer of Gayblevision, produced through Vancouver’s West End Cable 10, which aired from 1980 to 1986, (operating as Pacific Wave from 1984-1986). The series “captured the the people, organization, business, and events that were all a part of the city’s emerging queer community and nascent queer-rights movement”. Gayblevision aired monthly on the first and third Tuesday of the month and included regular episodes and a series of in-depth specials.

Gay Games III "Celebration 90"
Mary Ann McEwen was the official videographer of Gay Games III “Celebration 90”, held in Vancouver, B.C., August 4-11, 1990. The 1990 games were the first to be held outside of the United States and to see two swimming Masters world records broken. Approximately 7,300 athletes from 27 countries competed in 27 sports. Though the Gay Games III were met with fierce opposition from social conservatives and the religious right,  the games were a success for the city of Vancouver, generating more than $25 million locally. McEwan’s intended for these videos to be used in her documentary project titled “Legacy: The Story of the Gay Games”, which was to be produced by her production company Fast Forward Productions, but this project was never realized.

Select Filmography
1989 - “Women in Coaching”. 12-minute video (¾”) on Women in Sport Leadership Program, for use in high schools. Scriptwriter.

1988 - “Cheer on Canada”. 30’ television commercial for the Canadian Track and Field Association. 16 mm. Film. Writer, producer, director.

1987 - “Celebration ‘90”. 11-minute promotional video (¾”) for Metropolitan Vancouver Arts & Athletics. Writer, producer, editor.

1985 -“The Goal is a Cure”. 1-hr. Knowledge Network video program for Canadian Diabetes Association. Writer, producer, director, editor, Chyron operator.

1985 - “W.O.W.!” ½-hour cable show for women. Producer.

1985 - “West End Edition”. Hour cable news format show. Interviewer, cameraperson, editor.

1985 - “The Seniors Show”. Hour studio cable show for seniors. Chyron operator.

1984 - “God, Gays and the Gospel”. 1-hr. Video documentary (1”) for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, Los Angeles. Writer, producer, director, editor.

1980 - “Gayblevision”. Monthly ½-hr. Variety cablevision show (¾” video) aired in Vancouver. Series conceptualizer, founding producer. Writer, producer, director, interviewer, editor, cameraperson on many segments of first 7 programs. Co-producer, writer, actor for shows until 1982.

1978 - “Burnout”. ½-hr. 16mm. TV drama. Re-writer.

1978 - “In Shakleton’s Wake”. Developed feature documentary with Priorities West Picture Company on the Antarctic journey of 1914-1916. Researcher, writer, co-producer.

1978 - “Short Orders”. Developed ½-hr. Comedy cooking series for adult television with James Barber and Priorities West. Proposal writer.

1976: “In Transit: The Granville Interchange” 12-minute, 3-projector audiovisual for B.C. Government Department of Transit. Writer, producer, director, photographer.

1973: “Garden of Eden”. 7-min. 16mm. Colour film. Regional Finalist, scenario category, 5th Canadian Student Film Festival, Sir George Williams University, Montreal.

Awards and Honours
Gold Medal, Graphica 1971, Montreal (book)

Certificate of Merit, LA Advertising Women, 1971 (Book)

Award of Merit, The West Coast Show, LA 1974 (Radio)

Award of Merit, The West Coast Show, LA 1975 (Brochure)

Certificate of Excellence, The Graphics Gallery, Mass. 1975

Certificate of Merit, Television Bureau of Canada, 1981

Certificate of Appreciation, Canadian Diabetes Association, 1984

Certificate of Appreciation, Canadian Diabetes Association, 1985

Directors Observers Program, Academy of Canadian Cinema, 1990