Gretchen Kelbaugh
Filmmaker, teacher and author, Gretchen Kelbaugh twice won the AFF– CBC Script Development award. One of these, 106 Fire Hydrants, was produced for national CBC-TV.
Gretchen wrote and directed her feature, Margaret and Deirdre, whose screenplay won the national CBC Producers’ Showcase in 1999. The movie won Best Screenplay at the Trail Dance Film Festival in 2008 and was nominated for Best Feature Drama and Best Foreign Film. It played at the Atlantic Film Festival, Silver Wave Film Festival and Melbourne’s deReel International festivals. View the trailer: gretchenkelbaugh.webs.com/mad.htm#278330742
Gretchen’s short comedy Piece o’ Cake (writer, director) won Best No Budget Short at the Broad Humor Film Festival in California, screened in Australia, Italy and NB, and is now part of CBC-TV’s Downloads program. It can also be watched at: www.storyfirstproductions.ca under ’drama and comedy’.
Gretchen’s 2010 Menocracy, a feature documentary about women and politics, is distributed in Canada and the UK. "It is humorous, intelligent, outraged and whimsical. Every thinking woman should see it." – Elsie Hambrook, Chairperson of NB Advisory Council on Status of Women. View trailer and first 10 minutes: www.menocracy.ca . Click on "Videos".
Books authored by Gretchen include With All Her Might; the Life of Gertrude Harding, Militant Suffragette and the award-winning Lollipopsicles, a collection of nonsense rhymes illustrated by J.O. Pennanen. Information on both books, all of her videos and three of her screenplays: www.storyfirstproductions.ca .
