Lynne Stopkewich

Lynne Stopkewich (born 1964) is a Canadian film director perhaps best known for the controversial film "Kissed". Her most recent film is "The Shields Stories". She has also directed Suspicious River and a few episodes of the TV series "Bliss", "Da Vinci's Inquest", "The L Word" and "This Is Wonderland". Stopkewich generally prefers to work with cast and crew with whom she has worked before, most notably, the actress Molly Parker.." [Kalli Paakspuu, "Lynne Stopkewich: Abject Sexualities" "Great Canadian Film Directors", ed. George Melnyk. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press (2007): 385. "Preferring to work with established relationships, her creative collaboration with actress Molly Parker ... has been outstanding."]

Stopkewich's approach to the gaze in film is in part informed by feminist film theory, [Kay Armatage, "Gendering the Nation" Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1999): 264. "Stopkewich describes her approach to the circuit of looks as an overt decision, based on her familiarity with feminist film theory."] and thus her films have been described as being "darkly feminist." [Paakspuu (2007): 385] Canadians also see in her films "a strong sense of local culture" which rises "above the American appropriation of Vancouver as a backdrop for American generic culture." [Paakspuu (2007): 401]

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