Dorothea Mitchell

01 Jun, 1877 in England

A pioneering filmmaker in Canada. Mitchell co-founded the first amateur film group in Canada, the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society, in 1929, and made three feature-length films: A Race For Ties (1929), Sleep Inn Beauty (1929), and The Fatal Flower (1930 but left unfinished). The society's first film, A Race... For Ties, has the distinction of being the first amateur feature-length film in Canada

Also Known As:

Lady Lumberjack