The Lost Tribes of New York City

I found this beautiful short animated film, The Lost Tribes of New York City, on “Why that’s Delightful!”. A unique take of the everyday citizens that make up the diversity of New York City. A interesting combination of documentary and animation that makes this film a wonderful mid day experience. I originally posted this on the Work For All, the NFB new media project that I am working on.

Social Media and the Iranian Election

Here’s a post I made for the project I am line producing for the NFB, called Work For All.

Traditional media seems to be rendered practically useless during the Iranian election aftermath.  President Ahmadinejad announced his victory over rival Mousavi in this heated election, where many are questioning the validity of this result, and what it means for Iran and the world.

Alongside, and overtaking the media coverage on the eleciton are many social media tools like, blogs (like Terry Flew), Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are giving the world an unfiltered or less filtered look at what many in the world are looking at a huge step backwards for Iran.  Social tech site, Mashable made this analysis on how these social web tools are being used.

Presidential candidate Mousavi can be found on Twitter, and  reporters at BBC have to film undercover, as their tapes have been confiscated, and are disseminating their coverage on Youtube.

Also, the social and political web community are critiquing many major news organizations on their coverage of the election in Iran as not a true depiction of what the citizens of Iran are saying and experiencing.  The hashtag #CNNfail was trending on Twitter this week.  This shows the power of citizen journalism during an ever changing and turmultuous political climate in an age where over coming censorship and disseminating news is in the hands of the individual.

This is the NFB documentary film, A Tree that Remembers, by Iranian Canadian filmmaker, Masoud Raouf.

Three Mothers at CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival

Three Mothers is in Toronto this week for the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival. If you are in town, check it out on Thursday June 18, at 4:15 pm
and again on Saturday June 20, at 7:00 pm. It is an Official Selection 7: THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS. Not sure what this means, but Daniel and I will be there on Saturday.

Three Mothers screens at Festival REGARD in Saguenay Quebec

The international short film festival, REGARD took place this past week in Chicoutimi, Quebec and screened Three Mothers. Daniel, Yanick, and I were not able to attend, but can be seen here, watching the Cuban film, Memorias del subdesarrollo, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.

Daniel gets cozy for the film

Matt Forsythe illustrates dog walk

My good friend Matt Forsythe, the author of graphic novel Ojingogo drew this comic strip of my dog Beta and I on a dog walk in the winter.  It’s accuracy is 85% true….  And though it drags my good name through the *ahem* shit, I am flattered and needed to flaunt it to the public.

Three Mothers wins best short at RVCQ film festival

The short film by Daniel Schachter, Three Mothers, that I produced with Peripheria Productions took home its first prize this past week!  Out of 42 short films, Three Mothers won best short fiction film (by a director under 35 years of age) at the Rendez-vous Cinema Quebecois film festival in Montreal.  They are going to send Dan to another film festival in Paris in July, and we are off to Saguenay in 2 weeks for another short film festival screening and dog sledding.

Let’s date, WordPress

Let's go steady.

So, After a long time of neglect, I’ll be breaking up with my blogspot blog, and dating this wordpress blog.   Will be looking to design something more apropos and original for my site, and will hopefully be a much better BFF (Blog Fucking Frequently) to this one.   Let’s hope that the honeymoon lasts longer than a few weeks.

This will be a musings of my projects, ideas, and updates on what I and others I know are working on.  I am currently a line producer for the NFB’s new media project, Work For All .  In development for an online television station with Prospector Films, and trying not to neglect several other script writing commitments for short documentaries and fictions.   Juggling my work, walking my dog, and tweeting about random things, usually to do with bacon or cheese, I live and love my home and community in Montreal.  Even when it’s cold, I try not to get too passive aggressive with her, and just clench my teeth when the snow blows side ways.

Okay, enough on this, here goes friend.  Let’s take a plunge together.