George C. Stoney obit

George C. Stoney, Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 96

 

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George C. Stoney has died. A celebrated American documentary filmmaker, educator and advocate of democratic media, Stoney made over 50 films (his All My Babies was entered into the National Film Registry in 2002) and mentored hundreds of young filmmakers as a professor of production and media theory at New York University, where he taught since 1971.

Stoney also left a lasting mark on Canadian documentary filmmaking. At the National Film Board of Canada, where he spent a number of years in the late 1960s, he was executive director of the NFB’s Challenge for Change, a ground-breaking participatory film and video project designed to give voice to the voiceless.

During this time, Stoney produced VTR St-Jacques (1969), a 16-mm film documenting Challenge For Change’s pioneering experiment with community video production in downtown Montreal, as well as You Are on Indian Land, one of the first films to voice the concerns of First Nations communities in Canada.

George C. Stoney died peacefully at his New York City home on 12 July 2012. He was 96 years old.

 

Filmography

 

Mr. Williams Wakes Up (1944) Writer

Feeling All Right! (1948) Writer

Palmour Street, A Study of Family Life (1949) Writer/Director/Producer

Tar Heel Family (1951) Writer/Director/Producer

Land and Life (1949) Writer/Director/Producer

A Concept of Maternal and Neonatal Care (1950) Director/Producer

Birthright (1951) Writer

The American Road (1953) Director

All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story (1953) Writer/Director/Producer

Angels with Silver Wings (1953) Director/Producer

The Invader (1955) Director

The Secrets of the Heart (1955)

The Boy Who Saw Through (1956) Director

Proud Years (1956) Writer/Director

Second Chance (1956)

Hail The Hearty (1956) Producer

Cerebral Vascular Disease: The Challenge of Management (1959)

Booked for Safekeeping (1960) Writer/Director

The Cry for Help (1962)

The Mask (1963)

The Newcomers (1963)

Under Pressure (1964)

The Man in the Middle (1966)

You Are on Indian Land (1969) Producer

VTR St-Jacques (1969) Producer

Up Against the System (1969) Producer

These Are My People... (1969) Producer

The Prince Edward Island Development Plan, Part 1: Ten Days in September (1969) Producer

The Prince Edward Island Development Plan, Part 2: Four Days in March (1969) Producer

Mrs Case (1969) Producer

A Young Social Worker Speaks Her Mind (1969) Producer

Occupation (1970) Producer

Introduction to Labrador (1970) Producer

I Don't Think It's Meant for Us (1971) Producer

God Help the Man Who Would Part with His Land (1971) Director

When I Go. That's It! (1972) Director/Producer

Hudson Shad (1974)

Planning for Floods (1974)

The Shepherd of the Night Flock (1975) Director/Producer

How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978) Director/Producer

Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (1978)

In China Family Planning is No Private Matter (1978)

The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time (1981) Producer

Southern Voices: A Composer's Exploration with Sorrel Doris Hays (1985) Director

How One Painter Sees (1988)

We Shall Overcome (1989) Producer

The Uprising of '34 (1995) Director

Race or Reason: The Bellport Dilemma (2003) Producer

Flesh in Ecstasy: Gaston Lachaise and the Woman He Loved (2009)  Director w David Bagnall

What's Organic About Organic? (2010) Consulting Producer