The Oscar-winning director is also working with Real to Reel Productions on a second film about birth defect victims of Thalidomide (Zaritsky pictured).
Two of the program’s 2012 projects, The Ghosts in Our Machine and The Defector: Escape from North Korea (pictured) will screen at this year’s Hot Docs.
The Canadian doc apprenticeship program, from the Documentary Organization of Canada and CBC’s digital channel documentary, pairs professionals in the doc-making community with prominent doc producers and directors.