[Montréal, Québec, Canada 24°C] The 2010 Citizen Media Rendez-Vous is now behind me after three months of dedicated time to its coordination. As I contemplate my next moves, I invite everyone interested in citizen media to view the Livestream Archive of the two panel discussions. Montréal — Monday, August 23, 2010 10:30 am – 1:00 [...]
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Film Crews Abound Today in St-Henry Neighbourhood of Montréal
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 22°C] August 23, 2010 is a special day in St-Henry, a traditionally working class area of Montréal that is nestled southwest of downtown just north of the Lachine Canal. Parabola Films is documenting the neighbourhood’s cultural landscape in a single day with 12 crews roaming the streets and alleys. The project, St-Henry, [...]
Montréal Video Project Gets Results Keeping Kids in School
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 11°C] I can’t believe I’ve been offline for such a long time. Whatever, I’m back with a video reportage I edited and helped produce with a group of students from Louis-Joseph-Papineau High School in the St-Michel neighbourhood of Montréal. I was hired as a filmmaker/journalist to mentor this group of students make [...]
Voting Begins in Sudan Despite Rigging Accusations and Boycott
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 10°C] Today is election day in Sudan, the first of three days of polling. It is the first multi-party elections in Sudan since 1986, three years before the 1989 coup-d’état that brought Omar al-Bashir’s National Islamic Front – NIF (later renamed the National Congress Party – NCP) party to power. It has [...]
Video: Immunization in Lurcuk Village, Tonj North, South Sudan
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -4°C] I visited Southern Sudan March/April 2009. It seems like such a long time ago. Reviewing the video footage and photographs I took during my visit, brings me back. Below is my latest video montage of a particular day: March 20, 2009. This is the day I joined a team of World [...]
Jacmel Youth From Ciné Institute Film Their Shaken World
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 6°C] Before the January 12th earthquake shook the ground from beneath Haiti’s foundations, pulling the roofs down onto the people of Jacmel, Ciné Institute used the power of cinema to educate and empower Haitian youth in the coastal city south of Port-au-Prince. Just like other educational institutions, Ciné Institute was devastated with [...]
Documentary filmmakers get work-in-progress films previewed on GRITtv
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -2°C] Montréal is a city of filmmakers particularly known for its production of documentary films. Like all documentary filmmakers know, it can take a while to complete a film. Few films have a clearly defined beginning, middle and end while others are ongoing and are dependent on an unfolding story and an [...]
