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“Out of my windows” from the Highrise project

When Canadian National Film Board launched its interactive project Highrise it called it ” a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs. We will use the acclaimed interventionist and participatory approaches of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project. Our scale will be global, but rooted firmly in the [...]

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GDP: measuring the human side of the Canadian economic crisis

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GDP is an attempt to react to the global economic crisis that has hit everybody in the last two years. The National Film Board of Canada has a long tradition of social documentary but this time it has launched a very ambitious project: the country’s first bilingual web documentary, a pan-Canadian project that bears [...]

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Follow Highrise

Highrise is the new project from Katerina Cizek (who has been for the last five years the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence). Highrise is currently in production in several countries and it involves 360 degrees filming technology and collaborative participation with people leaving in vertical suburbs.
Have a look to their trailer. If you are [...]

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Capturing Reality: the Art of Documentary

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Capturing Reality is an incredible documentary about documentaries and film makers. Thirty world famous documentary makers were interviewed to give a flavour of a genre that is way too often unknown. The film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and was directed by Pepita Ferrari.
But for me the cool thing is that [...]

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Filmmaker-in-Residence

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Filmmaker-in-Residence is an experiment of film activism done by documentary-maker Katerina Cizek and the National Film Board of Canada. The basic idea is to “put media into the hands of communities in need” – as she states in her film. Cizek has followed for months mental  health nurses going into peoples’ houses, she has followed [...]

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