FIR @ POTSDAMER PLATZ
JUST IN: the world premiere of “7 Interventions of Filmmaker-in-Residence” will be at the Potzdamer Platz in Central Berlin. July 14th. Sony Centre. Fantastisch! (more deets to come soon)
Add comment June 20th, 2009
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PAX on Margaret Mead Fest site
Nice pic of Pax on America’s oldest festival site. http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/submit/
Add comment June 5th, 2009
DVDs NOW AVAILABLE
JUST IN: Filmmaker-in-Residence: The Complete Collection is now available for sale HERE and HANDHELD DVD about Health and Homelessness available HERE and Drawing from Life, about a suicide intervention group therapy program, is available HERE.
Please choose your customer profile HERE (ie your country, home or institutional use).
Add comment June 3rd, 2009
TOP 16 5-WORD SPEECHES
The on-line guy of the Las Vegas Review Journal has listed us in his top 16 speeches for the webby awards. Nice!
Add comment June 18th, 2008
5 WORDS ARE SURELY ENOUGH
Above, a projection of Gerry and me at the Webby film and video party. I overheard that this Adobe party-trick (a digital photobooth that prints out your pic and gets you projected on a massive screen instantly) is currently really big at bars in NYC. People line-up for their photos before their drinks apparently.
Anyhoo, the Webby award ceremony itself was a tad long. over 45 winners in our night (all using the same statue for the acceptance speech up at the podium, the real hardware gets sent in the mail later. bummer.).
Good thing we were all limited to 5-word acceptance speeches. Our night for film and video had a few good ones. For ex.:
The Onion: “thanks for this pulitzer”
Hometown Baghdad: “brave iraqis made this possible.”
The Onion: “Together we’ll make reading obsolete”
At the other webby ceremony:
Stephen Colbert: “me me me me me”
and will.i.am: “now we know we can”
my speech for Filmmaker-in-Residence?: “the internet is a documentary.”
Not funny. serious. but did get cited by lonely girl on her blog.
And the same night we were in sweltering NYC for the webbies, Head of NFB Tom Perlmutter picked up our Rockie award at the Banff Television Awards for “Internet Only Program.”
Congrats to Rob, Loc, Sean at Subject Matter, and Gerry, Silva, Heather, Branden, Corinne, Renee, Norma, and all our partners at FIR for these honours!
Me, most likely saying my 3rd word, “is”.
1 comment June 12th, 2008
MONTREAL, OTTAWA, ITALY and then NEW YORK CITY
Filmmaker-in-Residence is on the road. a very long and winding road.
First stop was Montreal, to finish the sound mix on Drawing from Life, the film about the group therapy for recurrent suicide attempters. I don’t think I’ll ever hear it sound so good again - the sound theatre at the NFB is incredible.
Ottawa was a three-day thing, teaching a session on Interventionist and Participatory Media at the fantastic SIFT school, now 28-years in the running. Had an awesome group of engaged and passionate participants. Drawing from Life was a hit, methinks. It really was one of the first screenings outside of the field. And it was received very, very well, so I am getting really excited to release it to the bigger world. I also shed a tear as Sarah Polley accepted the first ever Anthony Minghella Memorial Award.
Now I’ve just arrived at the Novacello monastery in Italy, where I’ll be mentoring and presenting FIR to a ESoDoc, a collection of mid-career media-makers from all over europe. I”ll have a day or two in Venice workshopping a friend’s script, and then it’s off to NYC to pick-up the Webby statue on behalf of the FIR team and Subject Matter.
Whirlwind or what. I’ll post photos of this magical monastery in the mountains soon.
Add comment June 3rd, 2008
DOWNSIDE OF MOBILE TECH
An interesting Village Voice blog about the terror mobile technology can induce in the wrong hands. Cell phones are not just all about People Power revolutions, unfortunately. The technology is also linked to rape and war, in places like Iraq and The Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ward Harkavy sums it up brutally, and links to our work at the Seeing is Believing website, that we put together a few year ago, about the central role Coltan (a mineral ore used in cell phones) plays in the ongoing war in Congo.
Harkavy also links to Stephen Lewis’ recent, raw speech about the horror of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo, that has become so common, it has been given a local medical term “vaginal destruction.” Terrifying.
Friends of the Congo seems to be doing good work on the issue. They’re based in Washington DC.
Add comment May 9th, 2008
A MENTION IN GLOBE & MAIL
Small article in Globe & Mail today about our Webby. We’re the only Canadian win.
They didn’t mention co-creators and collaborators on the win: Gerry Flahive, NFB Producer, Rob McLaughlin, Loc Dao and Sean Embury of Subject Matter.
And to clarify: we are not “embedded in various locales around the world,” we are only at St. Michael’s Hospital.
Add comment May 7th, 2008
STREET HEALTH STORIES IN NOW MAGAZINE
A nice article in today’s Now Magazine about the power of photography in the hands of people. The writer dedicates a few inches to our STREET HEALTH STORIES project. The issue is in honour of the commencement of North America’s largest month long photography fest in Toronto, CONTACT.
Add comment May 2nd, 2008
