My Docs

I have had the pleasure (and pain) of being directly involved in the making of some documentaries. Early on, as a fresh-faced undergraduate Communication student at Langara College (in Courtenay, British Columbia)  I toyed with the idea of becoming a filmmaker, despite having spent years working on film sets as a carpenter and seeing firsthand how complicated the whole process was. But alas, I wanted to change the world with media, and set to making documentaries. They are below (the bottom is the one I made for my class at Langara). I’ve also been involved in other projects that aren’t as embarrassing, looking back…

WAL-TOWN THE FILM (Sergeo Kirby, Canada, 2006, 66min)
This National Film Board of Canada doc was made by my good friend Sergeo Kirby, but the initial idea came out of my plan to cross Canada visiting small towns with Wal-Marts to guage the impact of the big box franchise on economics, social, political and cultural aspects of Canadian life. I wrote the original proposal with Sergeo and had planned to co-direct the film with him but the NFB thought it best, for the sake of conflict of interest, to remove me from any kind of director or producer position. This turned out to be a wise decision because not only did I not have a clue about making a long-form documentary, but I had my hands full, along with the other five activists I travelled across the country with, taking on “the Beast from Bentonville.” You can watch the film in full length below.

AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN (David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier, Canada-USA, 2009, 84min)
I acted as a consultant on this documentary and also programmed it into the Cinema Politica network where it won the coveted Cinema Politica Audience Award for 2009. Trailer below.

SHORT FILMS I DIRECTED OR CO-DIRECTED

“Alcant in India” | 2006 | 4 min

“Swing” | 2006 | 4 min

“Aducation” | 2002 | 7 min

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