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Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher

Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher is a Canadian short drama film directed by John N. Smith and released in 1977.[1] The film stars Martin Kevan as Mr. Todrick, a wheelchair-using substitute teacher facing an unruly high school class, and Marina Dimakopoulos as Tony, a student and class leader who comes to regret how she treated Mr. Todrick after she is given detention.[2]

Dimakopoulos won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 28th Canadian Film Awards.[3]

References

  1. ^ Brian J. Low, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780889207202. p. 177.
  2. ^ Richard Labonté, "NFB short gets message across". Ottawa Citizen, June 25, 1980.
  3. ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. p. 119.

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