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So, I just got my film essay back with a nice C on the back page and about two-grams worth of explanation why. My problem with this goes largely back to the fact that there was very little guidance as far as what was expected of us, or that this was a rather open, interpretive assignment. However it appears that secretly we have been held to a rather strict marking rubric which we are not privy to. all of this hails back to my original complaints about the class that it lacks focus and purpose. As a consequence I've decided to do a little more research on exactly who our teacher is. Donna Brunsdale is part and partial responsible for bringing us the films Waydowntown and A Problem With Fear as-well as a feature of her own direction called Cheerful Tearful which is either "amazing Canadian film making" or "pretentious tripe" depending on wether or not you believe the purpose of film is to actually tell a story or just watch someone sit in a room. Professor Brunsdale apparently believes that effective storytelling is inherently evil, at least from what the bytes taken out of the above article would tell. I'm pretty sure this isn't quite true, as becomes apparent from her class and also from her other projects. She has a love for film, that is quite apparent. She's just not very good at it. As becomes apparent from the reviews of the two features that people have actually seen (Waydowntown and A Problem with Fear) projects that she is involved with are generally okay ideas that simply lack purpose or focus. I'll not comment on the reviews of Cheerful Tearful as there really is only the one and it's written by the people who typically eat up this NFB anti-Hollywood stuff. I'm now intrigued to find a copy of Cheerful Tearful aswell as to ask whatever happened to her second feature project, Shopping. It is also interesting to note that Gary Burns is her husband. In class today she claimed some writing credit for Waydowntown, which could easily be part of Mr. Burns'.