Lifetime Achievement Award for Professor Kelly Saxberg

Congratulations to the Department of History's Kelly Saxberg for receiving a lifetime achievement award at the City of Thunder Bay's 2025 Arts and Heritage Awards.  Professor Saxberg has directed, produced, and edited a diverse range of historical documentary and docudrama films in her 40-year career, including "Rosies of the North" (1999), a National Film Board production chronicling the work of women building warplanes at the Canadian Car and Foundry factory in Fort William during the Second World War, "Under the Red Star" (2011), a historical docudrama about the Finnish Labour Temple in Thunder Bay, and "A Tale of Two Qallunaat" (2025), a documentary about the travels of Sheila Burnford and Susan Ross in the Canadian Arctic during the 1970s.  She also co-founded the Bay Street Film Festival (now the Vox Popular Media Arts Festival) in 2005 featuring the work of independent filmmakers in Canada and around the world.

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