Norma Bailey


Norma Bailey is a Canadian film director. She has directed television movies, fictional and documentary shorts, as well as feature films. In 2010, she was named to the Order of Manitoba.

Career

Norma Bailey graduated from the University of Manitoba and began her film career in Montreal as a production assistant on Allan Moyle’s The Rubber Gun and David Cronenberg’s Rabid. She joined the National Film Board of Canada, and her first short, The Performer, made for the Canada Vignettes series, won a jury prize for short film at the Cannes Film Festival. She has since directed and produced numerous shorts, documentaries, features and television dramas, including the Genie Award-winning Bordertown Café in 1992.

Selected filmography