Tag Archive for the term: activists

I just got back from Gilberto Gil’s second event here in Montreal, a kind of curated discussion between the Brazilian Culture Minister and Tropicalismo musical innovator and rebel Gil, the Digital Policy Coordinator Claudio Prado (sweetly anarchic and kind), and four academics and activists implicated in digital media.
Gilberto Gil, and Brazil as a whole, […]

The Montreal World Film Festival sees many a film, but this year’s edition was, for me, all about The Green Chain — a new mockumentary making its world premiere here in my fair city. While I would surely have gone to see the film regardless, a few factors made the screening all the more exciting […]

This province has always stuck me as a place where idealism reigns and where arts & culture are a long-standing political lever. So I figure that the Forum social québécois, a mashup of hundreds of activists and artists to take place August 23-26, just might be the most Québec event of the summer.
It starts […]

Unless you’ve been living in a hole, deep underground, you must be at least aware that a new high-profile environmental documentary will soon hit theaters: Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour. After last week’s L.A. premiere of the film, an endless array of articles emerged in newspapers across Canada and the US, and those that focused […]

A new documentary film from Grand Nord Productions, Loaded Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada is travelling across the country over the next few weeks. Below is a press release about the campaign and project…

I actually almost worked as a researcher for this project. I met with the directors in their main editing […]