There are some remarkable encounters; Gene Fowler is one of those. I’ve never met him, but I just needed two or three phone calls, a tiny bit of research on the internet and a few incursions on his Facebook page to get an idea of how colourful this character is.
August 4th 2010 2 Comments
Beastly: Wildlife Rehab Hit by Crisis
By all official indicators, the Canadian economy has been in recovery for months now, but the human – and animal – index tells another story.
Barry Rothfuss and Pam Novak, the team that runs New Brunswick’s Atlantic Wildlife Institute, recently got some disappointing news.
Tags: news
October 7th 2009 No Comments
Ever heard of the white paint index?
At the end of August, Pamela Gallant, our New-Brunswick based filmmaker, wrote a post called From soap to lipsticks, New Brunswick knows it all. Since then, she’s been shooting several hours in Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, to document in what ways Isabel and Pierre, two NB entrepreneurs, are impacted by the Canadian economic crisis. In that post, Pamela [...]
Tags: economy · english posts · news
August 21st 2009 No Comments
From soap to lipsticks, New Brunswick knows it all
The good thing about documentary filmmaking resides in the massive knowledge you gain and interesting bits of information you learn about on as many varied subjects. The economy, for instance, is a subject that, honestly, held little attraction for me… until I worked as an assistant editor, back in 1995, on a wonderful NFB documentary [...]
Tags: english posts · news
©2009 Le blogue PIB / The GDP blog