About Barbara Cranmer
Lived 1959 – 2019 (aged 59–60). Barbara Cranmer was an artist and film director.
Barbara Cranmer (1959 or 1960 – May 17, 2019) was a 'Namgis documentary filmmaker. Her works focus on First Nations subjects. Telling real stories experienced by Indigenous people of Alert Bay, British Columbia.
Her 2016 film Our Voices, Our Stories, which won "Best Documentary Short" at the 40th American Indian Film Festival, documents the Canadian Indian residential school system.
Cranmer died of brain cancer.
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Who was Barbara Cranmer?
Canadian documentary filmmaker
When was Barbara Cranmer born?
Barbara Cranmer was born in 1959.
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Barbara Cranmer died on 17 May 2019.
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Barbara Cranmer was an artist and film director.
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