My Bio

Official Bio (2010):

Ezra Winton is interested in the power of cinema to move mountains (of people into action). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication Studies at Carleton University where he is focused on network philosophy, documentary film and festival studies. He has made documentaries, starred in them, curated and theorized them, and hopes one day to teach them. Ezra created Cinema Politica in 2001, the largest campus-based documentary screening network in the world. Recent publications include the collection Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada, articles in POV Magazine, and a chapter in Mediascapes, an undergraduate textbook for Communication students. He is also an editor and blogger at ArtThreat.net.

Official bio (2009):

Ezra Winton is interested in the power of cinema to move mountains (of people into action). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication Studies at Carleton University where he is focused on network philosophy, documentary film and radical pedagogy. He has made documentaries, starred in them, curated and theorized them, and hopes one day to teach them. Ezra created Cinema Politica in 2001, a pan-Canadian network of political documentary screening sites that has over 30 locals in Canada with five in Europe and another in Brazil. Recent publications include articles in POV Magazine and forthcoming chapters in The Challenge for Change Reader and Mediascapes, an undergraduate textbook for Communication students.

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