Jennifer Hodge de Silva
- January 10, 2024
- Canadian Filmmaker
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jennifer Hodge de Silva |
| Occupation | Canadian filmmaker |
| Date Of Birth | Jan 28, 1951(1951-01-28) |
| Age | 73 |
| Date Of Death | May 5, 1989, Montreal, Canada |
| Birthplace | Montreal |
| Country | Canada |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
Jennifer Hodge de Silva Biography
| Name | Jennifer Hodge de Silva |
| Birthday | Jan 28 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place Of Birth | Montreal |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Parents | Mairuth Sarsfield |
| Children(s) | Zinzi de silva |
Jennifer Hodge de Silva is one of the most popular and richest Canadian filmmaker who was born on January 28, 1951 in Montreal, Canada. Jennifer Hodge de Silva (28 January 1951 – 5 May 1989) was an African-Canadian filmmaker. Her film, Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, revealed tensions between and police and residents of the Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto. The residents were mainly immigrants from Jamaica and Africa. She worked consistently with national organizations such the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). She was the first black filmmaker to do so.
Cameron Bailey, a Canadian film critic and artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, acknowledged her work in his 1990 article later published in a film anthology. In his 1990s publications Bailey honoured the work of black filmmakers such as Jennifer Hodge de Silva. The forms of production in which she worked were ‘marginalized’. At times she made films that were sponsored for organizations such as of Education and the John Howard Society.
Her 1983 documentary Home Feeling: A Struggle for Community, examining the relations between the police force and the black community, continued to be used in classrooms in the 2017.
Jennifer Hodge de Silva Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Canadian filmmaker |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jennifer Hodge de Silva is one of the richest Canadian filmmaker from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jennifer Hodge de Silva 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In 1978 she worked with Terence Macartney-Filgate on the film Fields of Endless Day as assistant director and associate producer while she was a student. The next year she worked with him again as associate producer of the CBC documentary Dieppe 1942. She covered stories about the lives of Chinese- Canadian immigrants and Indigenous artists and covered social issues in diverse neighbourhoods.
Hodge de Silva directed a number of films during the 1980s that established the dominant mode in African Canadian film culture. Working exclusively in the documentary and often on sponsored films, she staked out a set of concerns and a mode of production that might be termed black liberalism.
Jennifer Hodge de Silva comes from a family of women social activists — her grandmother, Anna Packwood and her daughters, Mairuth Vaughan Hodge Sarsfield (married to Cullen Squire Hodge) and Lucille Vaughn Cuevas.
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Jens Ranked on the list of most popular Canadian filmmaker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Jennifer Hodge de Silva celebrates birthday on January 28 of every year.