An event in Cobourg, Ont., is shining a light on a precedent-setting piece of Canadian film history.

And it all started in a basement room at the National Film Board.

That was the first location of Studio D — created in 1974 with the purpose of making films by, for, and about women, and initially given a shoestring budget of just $100,000.

Fifty-one years later, the studio is being highlighted by the Canadian Women in Film Museum with a screening of a documentary about its history, as well as a screening of one of the most acclaimed works to come out of it — the academy award-winning 1977 short documentary,

"Without that policy that the film board had started, I would have never gotten an opportunity to become a film director," Beverly Shaffer, director of , told CBC News. LISTEN |

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