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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1487 | | TITLE: | Selwyn Jacob fonds | | CREATOR: | Jacob, Selwyn | | DATE RANGE: | 1926-2001 | | EXTENT: | 9 films and other material
Includes 0.72 m of textual records, 375 photographs, 27 negatives, 161 slides, 42 videocassettes, 2 DVDs, 4 audio discs and 5 audio cassettes. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Selwyn Jacob was born in Trinidad, West Indies. He immigrated to Canada in 1968. He received his Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta in 1970; between 1972 and 1974, he studied film at the University of Southern California. In Alberta, Selwyn worked as a teacher and then as a media consultant with Alberta Education. In 1984, he produced his first independent film, We Remember Amber Valley, about the origin and decline of Alberta’s first Black settlement; he produced his second film, The Saint of North Battleford, about Reuben Mayes, in 1989. He then directed two award-winning National Film Board (NFB) releases, Carol’s Mirror and The Road Taken. In 1997, the Black Achievement Awards Society of Alberta presented Selwyn with the John Ware Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award. Selwyn operated Selwyn Enterprises Incorporated (Inc). In 1997, Selwyn joined the NFB as the Special Mandate Producer for Cultural Diversity for Western and Pacific Centres, based in Vancouver. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of materials used, maintained, and created to produce the films and productions We Remember Amber Valley, The Saint from North Battleford, Carol's Mirror, Al-Tasmim, Matty and Rose, The Road Taken, Marcus Garvey, The Road Home, Natasha, and Caribbean consisting of film elements, slides, research notes, invoices, clippings, articles, photographs, and other audio and video components created by Selwyn Jacob. The fonds also includes DVD copies of The Saint from North Battleford and We Remember Amber Valley. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is from the records and from http://www.onf.ca/documentary/html/en/4.4.5.3e-selwyn_jacob.html, accessed January 26, 2005. |
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