[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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Berlin Wall is Gone but Separation Walls are a Growth Industry
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 7°C] The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was one week ago today. With that behind us, it is now time to acknowledge that the construction of separation walls throughout the world is on the increase. According to l’Observatoire de géopolitique de la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand at [...]
Berlin, Check Point Charlie, and Giant-Puppet Theatre
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 16°C] Since my first visit to (East and West) Berlin in 1985, the city has never fully escaped my imagination. I remember walking up one of the platforms on the Western side of the wall near Potsdamer Platz to peer over the reinforced concrete barrier to get a glimpse behind the Iron [...]
BurningBillboard Branches Out and Air Traffic Worldwide.
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 18°C] I started this BurningBillboard to gather and disseminate video, audio and written reports about Southern Sudan. The place is at relative peace since signing a peace agreement in 2005. I wanted to know more about Southern Sudan and share what I learned with others interested in the emergence of peace rather [...]
