Guest Posts
3 films from the 2010 DOXA Connexions Youth Forum
A few weeks back, we wrote about the DOXA Connexions Youth Forum with a promise to follow up when the participants' films were completed. Well! The films are now all online.
Without further ado, here are the first 3 films along with a brief bio...
Doctors Without Residency: Why can’t foreign-trained doctors find work in Canada?
This post also appears on the Work For All website.
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Doctors Without Residency is a short documentary exploring the issue of foreign trained doctors being unable to obtain a residency in Canada. All the while, one hundred residency positions remain unfilled every year...
Get a glimpse of future technology – straight from Japan
Note: This post was taken from our French sister site, ONF.ca, and has been translated into English.
Philippe Baylaucq is back from Tokyo, Japan, where he presented his film A Dream for Kabul at the Canadian Embassy. We asked him to give us his...
Filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq on screening A Dream for Kabul in Japan
Note: This post was taken from our French sister site, ONF.ca, and has been translated into English.
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Philippe Baylaucq is back from Tokyo, Japan, where he presented his film A Dream for Kabul at the Canadian Embassy. We asked him to give us his...
Guest Post: Author/Entrepreneur Tara Hunt on the influence of Marilyn Waring
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The NFB documentary about Marilyn Waring's work, Who's Counting?, changed my life.
I was in my second year of university in Calgary, Alberta, not far from where I had been raised. The small town where I grew up was an ideal place for kids. There...
Black History Month
In celebration of Black History Month, take a look at Sobaz Benjamin's short film, Making It. The film looks at the career paths of a few Black youths. The subjects - who were first interviewed in 1984 - are now in their 40s,...
7 Strategies for Distributing Your Film on the Web – Peter Broderick
Actually, they don’t just apply to the Web.
One of the rules that Peter Broderick is trying to instill is that directors and producers should never leave home without their pack of DVDs they are trying to sell. Another of Broderick’s essential rules is to...
How to sell your content on the Web
While at IDFA, I attended a WDE (world doc exchange) seminar with Wendy Bernfeld of Rights Stuff. Raised in Montreal but based in Amsterdam, Bernfeld is a digital consultant and distributor. She covered a variety of highly interesting aspects of an as yet underexplored...
7 Tips for Online Film Distribution from Peter Broderick
At the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) I was invited to take part in the World Documentary Exchange program, designed to build ties between people in the industry through panels and “blind dates.”
Today, I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Broderick, an...
Do We Need Public Cultural Organizations?
The following is the text of a public address given by government film commissioner Tom Perlmutter to the RIDM conference in Montreal on November 17, 2009
It may seem self-serving at worst and naïve at best for the head of a public cultural agency to...
Tying Your Own Shoes wins Golden Dove Award!
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Tying Your Own Shoes has won the Golden Dove - the grand prize for short documentary film at the Leipzig Festival! Hooray!!!!!
I am still in shock but wanted to share the happy news!
Congratulations and many thanks to...
World premiere of Tying Your Own Shoes!!!!
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Congratulations to all! The world premiere of Tying Your Own Shoes was on Friday at 5pm here in Leipzig, Germany.
They put us in an ENORMOUS theatre - it seats about 800 and was maybe half to two-thirds full, with a massive screen! The film...
