Holly Dale

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Holly Dale

Born December 23, 1953 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada (age 72)

Holly Dale is a Canadian film and television director and producer, best known for her first feature documentary "P4W: Prison for Women" in 1981, an award-winning study about a maximum security prison for women, realized with her long time collaborator Janis Cole. Since then, she worked for countless television productions in North America.

Known For

Blood & DonutsBlood & Donuts · 1995
Blood & Donuts
5.41995
MovieHorrorComedy
In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.
Hookers on DavieHookers on Davie · 1984
Hookers on Davie
5.21984
MovieDocumentary
Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.
AbsolutionAbsolution · 2006
Absolution
5.02006
MovieDramaTV Movie
For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent to investigate.
Starship InvasionsStarship Invasions · 1977
Starship Invasions
3.31977
MovieScience Fiction
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?
Calling the ShotsCalling the Shots · 1988
Calling the Shots
9.01988
MovieDocumentary
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Firebird 2015 A.D.Firebird 2015 A.D. · 1981
Firebird 2015 A.D.
3.31981
MovieActionScience Fiction
In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except, of course, for official purposes. There are many renegades who oppose the authorities, and will stop at nothing to allow themselves the freedom of burning around the countryside.
Hush Little BabyHush Little Baby · 2007
Hush Little Baby
1.02007
MovieThrillerDrama
A young mother suffers her worst nightmare -the drowning of her young daughter. Two years later, Jamie gives birth to another girl. After a series of suspicious accidents, Jamie becomes haunted by fears that her dead daughter's vengeful spirit has returned in her new baby. Is she right, or is guilt over her daughter's death pushing her sanity over the edge? Written by Anonymous
PlaguePlague · 1979
Plague
6.11979
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She has no idea however that she is a carrier, and as such may carry a cure.

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