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- ↑ "Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail". nfb.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ↑ James Leach (1980). "Don Owen's Obliterated Environments" (PDF). The Dalhousie Review .
- ↑ Martin Knelman, "Donna and Gail shows what we ought to be doing in film". Toronto Star , August 17, 1968.
- ↑ Roy Shields, "Festival's fiction and MPs' fictions". Toronto Star , November 2, 1967.
- ↑ Geoffrey James, "Festival Awards Go Begging". Montreal Star , August 5, 1966.
- ↑ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 77-79.