Christene Browne

Réalisatrice et productrice canadienne.
En 1999, elle signe son premier long métrage de fiction, « Another Planet », film semi autobiographique et qui est le premier long métrage de fiction réalisé par une femme noire au Canada.
Christene Browne a créé en 1990 sa propre société de production : Syncopated Productions.

Elle vit à Toronto (Canada), avec ses trois enfants.

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Born in St. Kitts, Browne moved with her family to Regent Park, Canada’s oldest and largest low income community in 1970. It was in that Toronto community where the seeds of Browne’s filmmaker career were planted. There she participated and then lead the Regent Park Video workshop project and made a number of socially and culturally relevant videos. It was during this time Browne decided to go to film school. She attended the film program at Ryerson’s in Toronto.

After leaving Ryerson, Browne worked for a small film company before starting her own production company, Syncopated Productions in 1990.

Her very first two films « Brothers in Music », a film about two struggling jazz musicians and « No Choices, a 6 minute film that looked at the abortion issue and how it relates to women living in poverty debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1991 and launched Browne’s film career.

From that time onward Browne has consistently produced work that has tackled hard hitting topics such as poverty, the welfare system, social inequalities. She has worked independently and has also done projects with the National Film Board of Canada (Them that’s Not (1993) and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (Jodie Drake: Blues in My Bread, 1991). Her films have won numerous awards and have been screened and broadcasted internationally.

In 1999 Browne completed the semi autobiographical film « Another Planet », her first dramatic feature film and the first feature film to be directed by a Black woman in Canada.

In 2007 completed « Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language », a ground breaking five part documentary series that looks at the History of Language from prehistoric time to the present day. Noam Chomsky and many other notable linguists are featured in this series.

Most recently Browne completed her first novel: « Two Women », a cautionary tale about two women who share the same soul.

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Browne currently resides in Toronto with her three children.

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