Barbara Badessi

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Originally from Italy, Barbara worked in the film industry before coming to Canada in 1985. After graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Barbara has worked as the Director of Production of the Centre for Art Tapes, the associate producer, production manager and post-production supervisor on Thom Fitzgerald’s feature film Beefcake, as the associate producer on Colin MacKenzie documentary Jerry Granelli – In the Moment. With Flashfire Productions Inc., Barbara has produced Ann Verrall’s half hour drama Rain (Best Atlantic Short Film, Telefilm Award at the 20th Atlantic Film Festival) for CBC, Shandi Mitchell’s half hour drama Baba’s House (2002 Gemini nominee - Best Short Dramatic Program) for Global TV and Ariella Pahlke’s one hour documentary Rock and Desire for Global TV and Burning Rubber for Bravo!

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Burning Rubber

Burning Rubber is a provocative re-framing of burnouts and rural car culture - a filmmaker's search for meaning in a disregarded and often maligned form of self-expression. Based primarily in rural Nova Scotia, Burning Rubber weaves a predominantly male car culture together with artists and the curiosity of outsiders, stimulating larger questions about identity, creativity, gender, freedom, and how we decide what is valued and given meaning as art.

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2009

Baba's House

1977, Elvis is dead and nine year old Christina, grieving the loss of her mother, must spend the summer with her Ukrainian grandmother. Her only consolation is her new best friend, Ruby, who teaches her about the magic in raspberries and how to communicate with the dead.

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2002

Beefcake

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

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1998

The Water's Tale

At the edge of the world a Child learns from her Grandmother that she is descended from the fairies. She longs to know more but her Grandmother is silent. To find the story of her past, the Child enter the land of The In-between and travels to the beginning of time when Fairies roamed the earth. But the story she finds is not the one she wants. In a fit of anger she sends her Grandmother down into the sea to find the magic story she wishes for. Filled with remorse, she plunges into the sea to bring her back. As the Child sinks, the sleeping world of fairies begins to stir and the long lost secrets are awakened. The Water’s Tale is a story of the interconnection between a woman and the past – herself as a child and the burden of history through the ages.

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1995