Harry Fear is a British documentary filmmaker, political human rights advocate and news correspondent who became known to the world for his reporting from the Gaza Strip.
Read moreThis is a video produced by Sarah DeCarlo, a musician and filmmaker from Peterborough, Ontario.
Read moreL’accès au côté humain du conflit Israélo-Palestinien qu’offre Inch’Allah, long-métrage d’Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (en salle depuis le 24 septembre), permet de s’approprier émotionnellement la réalité.
Read moreHorror Film. The words bring to mind violent images of blood-soaked women, screaming. This genre of filmmaking has been mostly dominated by men. But, currently half of audiences are made up of women. And the first great horror classic, Frankenstein, was written by a woman, Mary Shelley. So why are women drawn to the genre as an audience or creators?
Read moreCaitlin Byrnes used her experience as an English teacher in Vancouver for her film, Visiting Hours – a story about an unusual friendship between a Korean ESL student in Vancouver and a lonely woman at a seniors’ centre. I asked the budding filmmaker about her inspirations and about her upcoming film projects.
Read moreI was reading the paper earlier this week and I stumbled across an article about Avatar (shocking, I know) and how director James Cameron was the only director who could pull something like Avatar off.
Read moreReelabilities: the second annual NY disabilities film festival in the end of January is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities. You can watch the trailers here: http://www.realabilities.org/films_new.html Also in January The Different from What Film Festivial on Disability in Arizona: http://differentfromwhatfilm.com/ […]
Read morePlusieurs documentaires de Femmes arabes dans la résistance sont présentés à la Cinémathèque québécoise par Regards palestiniens, jusqu’au 30 octobre prochain.
Read moreConnaissez–vous Miranda July? C’est une artiste pluridisciplinaire américaine, surtout connue pour son film Me and You and Everyone We Know .
Read moreJe suis très intéressée par les liens qui unissent les femmes au cinéma et passionnée par les représentations de familles dysfonctionnelles.
Read moreOK, so while we’re on the topic of books, pop culture and sexualization – let’s talk Twilight.
Read moreFilmmakers and poets in attendance. Bold, poignant, empowering, inspiring – come and join us for a night’s celebration of short digital videos by poets-turned-filmmakers from “The Colouring Book,” a collection of personal stories by writers of colour about issues of race and identity. A panel, moderated by Vinita Srivastava, will include the visionary behind […]
Read moreThe RCMP announced today that yet another gas pipeline near Dawson Creek (on the B.C./Alberta border) was bombed.
Read moreOn Sunday I went to the Makila collective’s latest screening of videos & films, the Soirée MAKILA at the SAT in Montreal to see Ellen Tang’s 8min documentary Girl Anymore. “Can you choose who you become? A first-person exploration of two-generations experience with choice and transition”as the synoposis says…
Read moreI was lucky enough to be part of the Make Some Noise North Gathering in Whitehorse in July. I witnessed many kinds of self expression unfold…..hip hop dance, aborigonal arts. and video took form to inspiring creations.
Read moreI picked up the guitar once or twice, tried my hand at piano, and sung into my hairbrush. But I was scared. I was scared to fail, scared to take up too much space in making mistakes, and not being as good as the boys.
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