Ravida Din is a Canadian film producer who formerly served with the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; ) is a Canadian public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and altern ...

(NFB) as a producer, executive producer, then as its Director General of English-language production, from February 11, 2013, to February 26, 2014. Her producing credits with the NFB included the documentary films ''

Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada ''Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada'' is a 2012 documentary film about the state of feminism in Canada, directed by Karen Cho and produced by Ravida Din for the National Film Board of Canada. Synopsis The documentary com ...

'', ''

Up the Yangtze ''Up the Yangtze'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese Canadian, Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of ...

'', ''

Reel Injun ''Reel Injun'' is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmakers Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film. ''Reel Injun'' is illustrated with excerpts from cla ...

'', '' Pink Ribbons, Inc.'' and '' Payback''. Prior to working in production, Din served in a variety of positions at the NFB in marketing and management, including serving as the assistant director general for NFB English Program under Tom Perlmutter. In 2010, she was named to '' Playback'' magazine's "10 To Watch" list. For ''Pink Ribbons, Inc.'', Din approached director

Léa Pool Léa Pool C.M. (born 8 September 1950) is a Canadian and Swiss filmmaker. She has directed several documentaries and feature films, many of which have won significant awards including the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and she was the first wom ...

after having researched and lived with the subject of

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for six years. A breast cancer survivor, Din had been diagnosed at approximately the same time as she first read Samantha King's book ''Pink Ribbons Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy'' and

Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and aw ...

’s autobiographical essay, ''Welcome to Cancerland''. It was Din who approached author

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...

to adapt '' Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth'' as a documentary film. Atwood reports that they jointly settled on

Jennifer Baichwal Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. Biography Baichwal was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.

as director. In 2009, working in collaboration with Studio XX, Din executive produced First Person Digital, a training and production program for women exploring new approaches to storytelling. Din was born in

Nairobi Nairobi is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kenya. The city lies in the south-central part of Kenya, at an elevation of . The name is derived from the Maasai language, Maasai phrase , which translates to 'place of cool waters', a ...

and raised in a

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family. She is a

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