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Kim Campbell Through the Looking Glass

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"People ask me, 'Are you proud of the fact that you were Canada's first woman prime minister?' I respond, 'Yes, but I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's tenth woman prime minister.'"--Kim Campbell. In 1993 Kim Campbell won the Tory leadership after Brian Mulroney's resignation and became Canada's nineteenth prime minister. She called an election and two and a half months later led the Progressive Conservatives to the biggest defeat of any major political party in Canadian history. What happened? The antithesis of Mulroney, Campbell began the race as the future of her party. This film documents the doomed campaign through never-before-seen interviews with Campbell, her family, colleagues and members of the media. They reflect on what brought such a hopeful candidacy to such an astounding upset. Vivid images, a striking score and elegant narration present an engaging portrait of Campbell--a resourceful, determined woman whose continued zest for life provides insight into her survival.

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Agency - English program:.Documentary Program - Ontario.

Credit Note

Director, Michel Jones ; producer, Silva Basmajian ; executive producer, Louise Lore ; cinematographer, Joan Hutton ; editor, Greg West ; music - composition, André Vincelli ; sound recordist, Chris Aikenhead, Brian Dupuis, Brent Haliskie, Keith Henderson, Michael Kennedy, Justine Pimlott, Adrian Tucker, Art Young ; visual research, Tanya Fleet ; sound editor, Alison Clark, Elma Bello ; re-recording, Tom Blaney ; expert, Elly Alboim, George Bain, Sylvia Bashevkin, Richard Johnson, Lionel Lumb, Lydia Miljan.

Performer Note

Narrator, Ann Marie MacDonald.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2000.

Summary

"People ask me, 'Are you proud of the fact that you were Canada's first woman prime minister?' I respond, 'Yes, but I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's tenth woman prime minister.'"--Kim Campbell. In 1993 Kim Campbell won the Tory leadership after Brian Mulroney's resignation and became Canada's nineteenth prime minister. She called an election and two and a half months later led the Progressive Conservatives to the biggest defeat of any major political party in Canadian history. What happened? The antithesis of Mulroney, Campbell began the race as the future of her party. This film documents the doomed campaign through never-before-seen interviews with Campbell, her family, colleagues and members of the media. They reflect on what brought such a hopeful candidacy to such an astounding upset. Vivid images, a striking score and elegant narration present an engaging portrait of Campbell--a resourceful, determined woman whose continued zest for life provides insight into her survival.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).