Documentary Field Notes and Flashpoints: category

Premières dans les cadres des Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal :

Jeudi 20 novembre, 19h30, Coeur des sciences (UQAM) [200, rue Sherbrooke Ouest]

Dimanche 23 novembre, 16h30, Salle Fernand Séguin, Cinémathèque Québecoise [335, boul. de Maisonneuve Est]

J’achète mon billet.

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Annie Roy à l’occasion de l’overture de CHANGE, le nouveau magasin de l’ATSA.
Cette semaine nous avons fait un tournage important lors du 10e anniversaire de l’ATSA, l’Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable, sujet du film URGENCE CRÉATION que je fais avec Simon Bujold.  Annie Roy et Pierre Allard lançaient une publication et ouvraient en même temps un [...]

Annie Roy speaking at the opening of ATSA’s new store CHANGE.
The other day, we went to shoot an important event involving ATSA (Action Terrosite Socialement Acceptable). To commemorate their 10 years of doing art interventions, they opened a new store, CHANGE. The name has a double meaning, referring to both the spare change they hope [...]

Myself and Martin Duckworth filming the Grannies in Vermont.

I am still working on my film about the Raging Grannies, the movement of elderly women fighting for peace, social justice and the environment with satirical songs and the occasional guerrilla action. I have decided to edit some of the Grannies’ songs as music videos, and [...]

Radioactive uranium tailings at Elliot Lake.
One of my first films, released 18 years ago, was Uranium, about the radioactive wastes from uranium mining on aboriginal lands in Canada. Not a very exciting title, and there was a reason for it. Faced with intense pressure from the uranium mining industry, the NFB sent a letter to [...]

Young@Heart
One of the most inspiring documentaries I have seen in recent years is playing in at least one theatre in Montreal right now. Young@Heart , by British filmmaker Stephen Walker, tells the story of a choir of elderly people preparing for an important concert in their Massachusetts home town. But they are not singing [...]

Raging Grannies at their last Unconvention. Photo Simon Bujold.
For the last three years I have been working on a film about the Raging Grannies. This film is about a Canadian movement which has become international. It’s about using humour to fight for peace, social justice and the environment. It’s about learning how to grow old [...]

Les Mémés Déchaînées à l’occasion de leur dernière ‘Unconvention’. Photo Simon Bujold
Depuis trois ans je travaille sur un film sur les Mémés Déchaînées, un mouvement canadien à la base, mais qui est depuis devenu international. C’est un film qui va montrer comment se servir de l’humour pour réclamer la paix, la justice sociale et [...]

With my friend and colleague Martin Duckworth I am just now doing the last days of shooting for our film ‘At the Crossroads’ ( working title.) For three and a half years we have been following the conflict surrounding the proposed Rabaska liquefied natural gas port in Lévis, Qué. It would be located on the [...]

Avec mon collègue et ami Martin Duckworth je suis en train de faire les derniers tournages pour un film provisoirement intitulé ‘A la croisée des chemins.’ Pendant trois ans nous avons suivi le conflit autour du projet de port méthanier Rabaska, sur la rive sud du St.Laurent, en face de l’Île d’Orléans. Pour l’élite [...]