Gerry Rogers’ film career began in 1982 at the National Film Board’s Studio D in Montreal where she was Program Producer of the Federal Women’s Film Program, a film production, distribution and training program for women filmmakers. In 1992 she returned to Newfoundland and founded Augusta Productions.
Gerry has more than 20 films to her credit and over 40 international awards. Among these are the multi-award winning film My Left Breast (for which she won two Geminis) and the films Pleasant Street, FERRON: girl on a road and After the Montreal Massacre.
A passionate advocate for social justice, Gerry Rogers is also the former leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party (2018-2019). She served in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as NDP MHA for the electoral district of St. John’s Centre from 2011 to 2019.