Documentary Field Notes and Flashpoints: archive

Il ne m’arrive pas souvent de travailler sur les projets d’autres cinéastes. Mais voici que depuis quelques mois je travaille avec réalisateur Hugo Latulippe sur son film Alphée et les Étoiles et le projet web qui doit l’accompagner. Hugo est l’auteur de plusieurs long-métrages, dont Bacon, le film et Ce qu’il reste de nous (avec [...]

French would be the logical language for this post, but I’d like to share this content with people outside Quebec. This past week was Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette week. This extremely talented, 31-year-old Montreal director launched a novel, held a vernissage for a photo exhibition, and signed a terrific documentary broadcast on Radio-Canada Sunday night at 10.30. [...]

You are probably familiar with the series 7 and Up by British filmmaker Michael Apted, who has been following fourteen individuals since 1964, filming them every seven years. Well, my colleagues Robbie Hart and Luc Côté have done a variation on that idea, with their film Turning 32. Sixteen years ago they released a series [...]

This blog post was written by my young colleague Tobi Elliott, who is helping me with several projects right now. One of Canada’s recent successes in the interactive documentary universe is waterlife.nfb.ca, a site based on director Kevin McMahon’s documentary film of the same name. Waterlife the film (Special Jury Prize for a Canadian Feature [...]