Entrevue avec Hélène Choquette, réalisatrice-coordonnatrice du documentaire Web PIB de l’Office national du film. Elle nous parle d’approche documentaire, de pertinence sociale et des contraintes de production.
April 16th 2010 No Comments
January 26th 2010 6 Comments
The Crisis & Canada’s guest workers
While researching issues relating to our story about Zoran and Edgar, I was surprised to learn that there now about 250,000 guest workers in Canada – a number that has grown dramatically in the last five years with the rapid expansion of the federal government’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program.
The trend seems to mark a major [...]
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January 26th 2010 No Comments
Money n’ time
Last week, I was at Concordia University in Montreal. I met with young filmmaker Jeff Kitchiguine – who, among other, had 2-3 big ideas to share with me around interactivity for the GDP project. He was all about promoting GDP’s films to unusual suspects, groups and individuals outside the documentary beaten track. In a word, [...]
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January 21st 2010 No Comments
Plus ça change…
Qui ne se souvient pas de Nicolas Sarkozy qui déchirait sa chemise en clamant qu’il fallait «réformer le capitalisme » ?
C’était il n’y a pas si longtemps. À l’automne 2008. La crise financière venait d’atteindre l’économie réelle. La récession était bien en selle et tous – chefs d’État y compris – y allaient de leurs [...]
Tags: billets français · economy · news
October 23rd 2009 No Comments
Directing in the field for GDP
It has been six months since I was first contacted by the NFB asking me to be a part of the new web documentary GDP. Now that the site is up and running it is cool to see how it has all come together. One of the most interesting aspects to this style of documentary [...]
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