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Kelly Anderson
Bigger picture at native festival
Selections at this year’s imagineNATIVE reflect a change of pace among aboriginal filmmakers, says organizer Michelle Latimer
History, Cineflix debut Manson doc
Following the model of its Jonestown project, the production house revisits another mass murder
Waterlife flows into the web
Content-heavy site for NFB doc emerges after months of work at design shop Jam3
TVO wants POV for The View From Here
Jane Jankovic, commissioning editor of TVO’s POV strand The View From Here, details the state of the Canadian public broadcaster and what type of docs she’s looking for. Jankovic is also supervising producer for the international documentary strand Human Edge and the arts strand Masterworks.
3 things you didn’t know about… Alanis Obomsawin
1. I do etchings. It’s quite passionate for me. It’s like therapy in terms of what it does to work with my hands for hours and hours making these little lines.
Officer takes a run at NFB doc
Charles Officer was just going into production of his feature debut, Nurse.Fighter.Boy, when Selwyn Jacob from the NFB…
What does The View from Here want?
Clarity of concept and plain ol’ good storytelling can go a long way to getting a documentary deal with TVOntario, says…
New fund ‘worrying,’ says doc group
The Canada Media Fund put forward this week by Ottawa could have bad implications for independent filmmakers…
Survivorman extinct
Interviewed at the RealScreen Summit, Survivorman Les Stroud talked about the end of his popular OLN series after three successful seasons. Stroud admitted he doesn’t want audiences to get tired of the show, and suggested the series was taking a toll. ‘I’ve slept on the rocks, in the mud and I’m not getting any younger,’ he said. Although Survivorman has run its course, Stroud will remain in the entertainment space with books and other media.
Vancouver shop climbs into the ring
Make Believe Media is in the lucky position of capitalizing on the popularity of Oscar-nominated feature The Wrestler…
CBC appoints two to science and history unit
Vets Caroline Underwood and F.M. Morrison assume new roles, as the venerable The Nature of Things with David Suzuki gears up for a new season
Decision making at Hot Docs
As the deadline for next year’s festival closes in, director of programming Sean Farnel offers pointers on how to make a submission ‘pop’
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