Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Monday 22 February, 2010 at 9:52 pm. It's been filed in the Documentary debates + English + Festivals & public screenings category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Guinea pig detectives cover page. Illustration by Pierre Durand.
Together with my friend and colleague Patricia Bergeron I spent last week in intensive consultations about cross-platform documentaries - meaning documentaries which aren’t just a film or a TV program but also play themselves out on the web, including in the social networks. ( Cross-platform or transmedia [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Saturday 13 February, 2010 at 1:14 pm. It's been filed in the Documentary debates + English + Festivals & public screenings + My own projects category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Béthièle when she was five.
A documentary filmmaker in Canada today might be forgiven for being discouraged. The combined impact of the crisis of television, the more general economic crisis, and the Conservative government’s policies are having a devastating impact on our traditional sources of funding. There is definitely a ‘paradigm shift’ underway. New models of [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Thursday 17 December, 2009 at 2:04 am. It's been filed in the Festivals & public screenings + Français + My own projects category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Mon film ‘Enfants de Choeur‘ sur la chorale des sans-abris de Montréal, terminé il y a dix ans, sera projeté à la Cinémathéque québecoise à Montréal ce samedi le 19 Décembre. Et ce sera une projection-événement puisque la nouvelle incarnation du groupe, la Chorale sous les étoiles - autrefois Chorele de l’Acceuil Bonneau - sera [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Monday 14 December, 2009 at 8:55 pm. It's been filed in the English + Festivals & public screenings + Other diretors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
This is about a film which was nominated in three categories at the recent Rencontres internatinales du documentaire de Montreal, and which I saw at Cinema Parallèle the other day. Very much à propos, as the Copenhagen climate change conference enters the real negotiating stage. The film, H2Oil by Shannon Walsh (Loaded Pictures), is about [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Tuesday 08 December, 2009 at 12:39 am. It's been filed in the Festivals & public screenings + Français category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Aux Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal j’ai vu un film formidable, intitulé Les Damnés de la mer - qui a reçu le prix du meilleur film dans la section Écosociété. C’est aussi un film qui a eu un impact dans la réalité qu’il décrit. Le réalisateur Jawad Rhalib filme avec aplomb la surexploitation des [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Friday 27 November, 2009 at 8:45 am. It's been filed in the English + Festivals & public screenings + Other diretors' completed films category. {1 Comment}
During the Rencontres Internationales du documentaire de Montréal which just ended, I saw a number of really excellent documentaries. Over the next few weeks I’ll tell you about a couple of them, not just because of their qualities as films but because they are making a difference, having a real impact. To start with, here [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Wednesday 16 September, 2009 at 7:23 pm. It's been filed in the English + Festivals & public screenings + Other diretors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Kent Nagano directs throatsingers Taqralik Partridge and Evie Mark
(credit: Robert Fréchette)
The other day at Cinéma Parallèle I saw a really excellent new documentary on the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra’s visit to three Inuit communities in Nunavik. Tusarnituuq! Nagano in the Land of the Inuit was directed by Félix Lajeunesse and produced by Katarina Soukoup. [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Wednesday 22 April, 2009 at 6:06 pm. It's been filed in the Documentary debates + English + Festivals & public screenings + Other diretors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
An image from Lech Kowalski’s ‘Hey! Is Dee Dee Home?’
Last week I saw the most creatively radical documentary I have ever seen, East of Paradise (2004) by Lech Kowalski. It breaks every convention of story development. The first half of the film is made up of an interview with Kowalski’s mother, about the horrors [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Sunday 22 March, 2009 at 8:30 am. It's been filed in the Documentary debates + Festivals & public screenings + Français + Other diretors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Manifestation en août 2006, réclamant que Exxon nettoie les plages et qu’il paie pour les dommages.
Un des meilleurs films que j’avais vu aux Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal au mois de novembre sera aussi présenté cette semaine au Festival des Films sur les Droits, aussi à Montréal, et sera également diffusé à Radio-Canada [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Saturday 14 March, 2009 at 7:14 pm. It's been filed in the Festivals & public screenings + Français + Other diretors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
J’étais invité à l’ouverture du 4ème Festival de Films sur les Droits de la Personne de Montréal il y a quelques jours mais je n’ai pas pu y aller. Mon proche collaborateur Franck Le Coroller s’y est rendu à ma place et nous fait le résumé suivant.
Affiche du film 8
La salle était pleine à craquer. [...]