Lynne Fernie

Lynne Fernie
Born1946
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EducationOntario College of Art and Design University honors graduate
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker
Known forForbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

Lynne Fernie (born 1946) is a Canadian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. She spent fourteen years as the Canadian Spectrum programmer for the Hot Docs Festival from 2002 to 2016, and was described as having a passion as "deep as her knowledge," and it was said that her "championing of Canadian documentaries and the people who make them has never wavered."