Artist

Holly Dale

Genie award-winning filmmakers Janis Cole and Holly Dale produced, directed, wrote and edited their joint seminal feature documentaries; P4W: Prison for Women, Hookers on Davie and Calllng the Shots. In 1994 they were recipients of the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art.

Holly Dale is a Canadian filmmaker and television director. Dale works extensively in the Canadian film and television industry as a director, producer, writer, and editor.
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Dale was raised in a low-income household in Parkdale, Toronto. However, she decided to leave home as a teenager due to ongoing family conflict. During this time, she worked in non-therapeutic massage parlors in downtown Toronto.[1][3] In the mid-1970s, Dale was accepted into the film studies program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Here, she met Janis Cole, who she would continue to work with for the next 20 years.[1][3]
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Videography

Calling the Shots

1988, 118:00 minutes, colour, English

Hookers on Davie

1984, 89:00 minutes, colour, English (with Closed Captions or French subtitles)

P4W: Prison for Women

1981, 82:00 minutes, colour, English (with English or French subtitles)

Minimum Charge No Cover

1976, 10:53 minutes, colour, English

Cream Soda

1975, 13:00 minutes, colour, English

Critical Writing

Candiana | A Cinema of Care: The Films of Janis Cole and Holly Dale
by Cayley James. Cinema Scope, June 21 Summer, 2022, no. 91. Toronto: Cinema Scope, 2022.
Our People:: Janis Cole and Holy Dale in the 1970s
by Jon Davies. Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, May 2017. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2017.
Unconditional Complicity: On the Early Films of Janis Cole & Holly...
by Jon Davies. Randy, Spring/Summer 2013, v. 4. Brooklyn, New York: Capricious Publishing, 2013.
Janis Cole and Holly Dale: Out From the Margins: Janis Cole...
by Matthew Hays. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.
Janis Cole and Holly Dale's Cinema of Marginality: Janis Cole...
by Kay Armatage. North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, 2002. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002.
Is The Dead Author a Woman? / L'auteur mort est-ce une femme?:...
by Janine Marchessault and Jeanluc Svoboda. Parallelogramme, Spring 1990, v. 15, no. 4.
Brutal Art from mean streets: Some Thoughts on Feminist Authorship...
by Marshall Delaney. Saturday Night, 1978. Toronto: Saturday Night, 1978.