Posts Tagged social
GDP: measuring the human side of the Canadian economic crisis
Posted by Sandra in Archive, Web, collaborative on April 14th, 2010
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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 [...]
ecomonic, GDP, hypertext mode, NFB, participative mode, social
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 [...]