A WILD, EXOTIC FLOWER
February 3rd, 2007
“You are like some kind of wild, exotic flower!” exclaimed an audience member after my presentation about Filmmaker-in-Residence at the Making Your Documentary Matter conference in Washington DC.
Image I get when I google: wild exotic flower
It seemed hard for some Americans to believe that an agency of a government (a Canadian one!) would actually hire a filmmaker and put them in residence at a hospital for several years simply to make media to fuel social action, and to work with frontline workers.
At least one American believes what we’re doing. George Stoney is the legendary 91-year old filmmaker whom the NFB hired back in 1968 to head up the first-wave Challenge for Change project. It was the first institutional experiment to use film as an instrument of social change. Filmmaker-in-Residence is in part inspired by the work they did back then, and I had a chance to speak with George on-camera and showed him our website while in Washington.
“What do you think of the NFB reviving Challenge for Change?” I asked.
“It’s about time!” he said.
George Stoney surfing our website, being filmed by Liz.
Entry Filed under: Challenge for Change
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1. admin | February 14th, 2007 at 6:37 am
this morning, i reviewed your website (filmmaker in res) and i’m “gobsmacked” as they would say in south africa. simply the most compelling site i’ve browsed. i’m brimming with new ideas, things i wanna try, and notions for how to test out some ways to do more interactive work on my Saving The Sierra project. yahoo!
jesikah
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