{{Short description|Canadian writer, journalist and filmmaker}} '''Lindalee Tracey''' ({{Birth date|1957|05|14}} – {{Death date|2006|10|19}}) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] broadcast journalist, documentary filmmaker, writer, and exotic dancer.<ref name=CbcObit> {{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/filmmaker-writer-lindalee-tracey-dead-at-49-1.622268| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104140206/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/10/20/lindalee-tracey-obit.html| url-status=live| archive-date=November 4, 2012| title=Filmmaker, writer Lindalee Tracey dead at 49| date=October 26, 2006|publisher=[[CBC News]]}}</ref><ref name=CollectionsCanada>{{cite news |url = http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-718-e.html |title = Lindalee Tracey: Filmmaker and Writer |publisher = [[Collections Canada]] |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090916015636/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-718-e.html |archivedate = 2009-09-16 |url-status = dead}}</ref> She is best known for the documentary film ''[[Not a Love Story]]'', a controversial 1981 film about [[pornography]]. Her credits include work on many films on controversial topics.
==Career== Her appearance as a journalist in the film ''Not a Love Story'' marked a career change for Tracey.<ref name=CbcObit/> [[Bonnie Sherr Klein]], one of the film's producers, described meeting Tracey when she was working as a stripper in Montreal. Sherr Klein described being impressed that Tracey's act was different from those of other women she met researching the film—playful and intelligent, allowing her to retain a greater measure of autonomy and self-respect. Tracey was hired to serve as one of the film's researchers and presenters.
Following her work on the film Tracey started working as a writer and researcher, and later a producer.<ref name=CbcObit/> Tracey and her husband, [[Peter Raymont]], set up a production company that produced many of their later works. Most of the documentaries she worked on were serious, issue-oriented films.
She and Raymont created the television drama ''[[The Border (TV series)|The Border]]'', which was eventually broadcast in 2008.
==Death and legacy== Tracey died on October 19, 2006, after a four-year battle with [[breast cancer]].<ref name=CbcObit/>
Tracey's friends and family created the [[Lindalee Tracey Award]] to celebrate her memory and her accomplishments.<ref name=MagnoliaLLTAward> {{cite news |url = http://www.magnoliamovies.com/lltaward.htm |title = The Lindalee Tracey Award |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090215150356/http://magnoliamovies.com/lltaward.htm |archivedate = 2009-02-15 |publisher = [[Magnolia Movies]] |url-status = dead }}</ref> A Canadian filmmaker is given the annual award at the [[Hot Docs]] film festival in Toronto.
==Filmography== *''[[Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography]]'' (1981) *''[[A 20th Century Chocolate Cake]]'' (1983) *''[[Other Tongues]]'' (1984) *''[[Abby, I Hardly Knew Ya]]'' (1995) * An English Sense of Justice * Passing The Flame: The Legacy of Women's College Hospital (1997) *''[[The Undefended Border]]'' (2002) *''[[Bhopal: The Search for Justice]]'' (2004) * Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire (2004) - Producer * The Border (2008 - 38 X 1 hr) - Co-Creator * The Anatomy of Burlesque
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * Barbara Korte: ''Another world. Lindalee Tracey's journey into poor Canada and traditions of home touring.'' In: ''New worlds. Discovering and constructing the unknown in anglophone literature.'' Presented to Walter Pache on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Ed. by Martin Kuester, Gabriele Christ, Rudolf Beck. Vögel, Munich 2000 (Schriften der Philosophischen Fakultäten der [[Universität Augsburg]], 59, Literatur- und sprachwissenschaftliche Reihe) pp 261–276
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0870443}}
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