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Singing for the children in Haiti

Géthro Auguste directs the children. (Photo: Jocelyne Clarke)

Over the last few months, Martin Duckworth and I have been shooting the rehearsals and recording sessions for a song for the orphans in Haiti, much more numerous since the January earthquake. The recording of the song is an initiative by Géthro Auguste, the head of a community [...]

Lancement Les super-Mémés

Louise-Édith Hébert et Marguerite Bilodeau.  Photo Marie-Pierre Savard.
Au cours des dernières semaines, nous avons lancé mon film Les Super-mémés, sur le mouvement des Raging Grannies et des Mémés déchaînées. C’est un film produit par Isabelle Couture et Ian Boyd aux films de l’Isle, avec une license cruciale de Canal Vie, et distribué par Vidéo-Femmes. Le [...]

Launching French Granny film

Louise-Édith Hébert and Marguerite Bilodeau, photo Marie-Pierre Savard
Over the past two weeks, we launched my French-language film on the Raging Grannies and Mémés Déchaînées, Les super-mémés. It premiered on the 20th of March as closing film for the Human rights film festival in Montreal, at the Park Cinema, and we had another launch screening in [...]

New directions 1: short film competitions on the web

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 [...]

HAITI – IMAGES ET BESOINS URGENTS

Orphélins à Port-au-Prince. Photo: Marcello Casal Jr/ABr
Selon l’UNICEF, le tremblement de terre en Haiti a crée la situation la plus désastreuse pour les enfants de toute l’histoire de l’humanité. Il y a des dizaines de milliers d’orphélins parmi les centaines de milliers de personnes blessées et sans-abri.
Ayant une fille d’Haiti, ayant déjà visité des orphélinats [...]

Projection-événement: ‘Enfants de Choeur’ à la cinémathèque

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 [...]

Première de ‘L’art en action’ aux RIDM

Simon Bujold, Jeannine Gagné, MI, Annie Roy et Pierre Allard. Photo: Ariane Jacob
Dans le cadre des Rencontres Internationales du documentaire de Montréal, nous avons lancé L’art en action, notre film sur les deux artistes Annie Roy et Pierre Allard qui forment l’ATSA, L’action terroriste socialement acceptable. Les 300 personnes environ présentes dans la salle ont [...]

A Tribute to Muriel Duckworth

Muriel reading. Photo: Terre Nash
Sadly we just learned that our friend Muriel Duckworth, pioneering feminist and peace activist, passed away Saturday morning at the venerable age of 100. I say we, because many of my relatives and friends knew and admired Muriel, a tireless opponent of war and injustice in all forms. You can read [...]

Grannies protest CANSEC arms fair

Marching Grannies
All photos by Alan Auvaart (see below)
I just came back from filming the Raging Grannies in action at the protest against the CANSEC arms fair in Ottawa. It is the largest event of its kind in Canada, showcasing all the best new ways to inflict pain, cause death and create mayhem. It was held [...]

‘Brave New 1984′ on the NFB’s Citizenshift website

Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in shapes of your own choosing…If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four, 1949
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in [...]

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