Award-winning filmmaker Linda Fitzpatrick graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1992 with a Bachelor of Commerce in marketing and has been working in the Newfoundland television and film production industry since 1998.

Linda incorporated her own company, Second Glance Productions (SGP) Inc. in 2000 and is now developing Old Flames - a one-hour documentary that explores the relevance of romantic love in the lives of senior citizens. In addition to this project, Linda has produced and directed two short documentary films through her company.

Lynn & Harriet (2004) is a short film about the relationship a woman develops with the pig she is raising for meat. The film recently won the Audience Choice Award at the Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Cabbagetown Short Film and Video Festival, and was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. It has screened/will screen at several other high-profile film festivals including DOXA, Inside Out, Out On Screen, Atlantic Film Festival and the St. John?s International Woman?s Film & Video Festival. The film will also be featured on a new National Film Board of Canada website - CitizenShift, which launches in October 2004.

Linda?s first film, he Grocery Bus (2002) was broadcast on CBC ZeD in January 2004 and was featured in the Edmonton Film Society?s Canadian Film Studies Series - a pilot education program for students in grades K - 12. The film was screened at several festivals, including the Canadian Film Centre?s Worldwide Short Film Festival.

While working at Ruby Line Productions Linda co-produced Raising Rover in association with CTV and Portrait of a 70 Foot Artist in association with BRAVO. She also produced Joey Smallwood: Between Scoundrels and Saints in association with the CBC?s Life and Times series while working at Morag Productions.

Linda is an active volunteer on films by emerging filmmakers through the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative?s First-Time Filmmakers Program. She is also an executive board member of the St. John?s International Women?s Film and Video Festival, a member of the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative, the Documentary Organization of Canada, and the Producer?s Association of Newfoundland.