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02.27.13Malware? What Malware? Let’s Re-think This Thing.Okay, so it seems like the malware issue is gone. Big thanks to Sean and Charlotte on resolving that issue. Luckily, you missed absolutely nothing during our downtime. Which leads me to... As of late, my posting around here has been sparse and inconsistant to say the least. In reality, I've never found it easy to maintain this website as I'm not a natural born blogger. I don't LOVE blogging and I'm rarely inspired to take the time to sit down and force myself to post about something. I find the majority of news items shared on Twitter boring and I ...
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02.13.12Help Support ‘How to Build a Time Machine': A Documentary About Time Travel!Good news everyone! Hot Docs has just kicked off their own crowd sourcing initiative called Doc Ignite, and my next film, ‘How to Build a Time Machine’, is the first project they’re supporting! After having a blast making Beauty Day, I wanted my follow up film to be something equally entertaining and fun to make, so I decided to return to a subject I’d dealt with before; time travel. As some of you may know, in 2005 I directed a short student documentary called Obsessed & Scientific. I’d always wanted to return to that subject matter and give it the treatment ...
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10.06.11Hot Docs Names Charlotte Cook as New Director of Programming!I just wanted to congratulate The Documentary Blog's own Charlotte Cook, who has just been announced as the new director of programming for the Hot Docs Film Festival! I wish her all the best in her new position at the festival and am excited to see the films she and her fellow programmers bring to us at next year's festival! Good luck Charlotte!
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06.09.11Beauty Day Hits Limited Theatres in Canada Tomorrow!I've tried to avoid posting too much about Beauty Day here at The Documentary Blog but I thought it might be worth mentioning that the film is hitting limited theatres in Canada TOMORROW (Friday, June 10th) and I'm thrilled. Here are the current dates, with more to come: Cumberland (Cineplex), Toronto: Opening June 10 Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa: Opening June 10 Empire Pen Centre, (Pen Centre Mall), St. Catharines: June 10 - 16 Regina Public Library Film Theatre: June 30 - July 3 Princess Cinema, Waterloo: July 1 - 7, 2011 Gimli Film Festival (Beach Screening), Gimli, MB: July 23 (Midnight Screening) Winnipeg Cinematheque: Aug 5, 6, 7, ...
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12.24.10Merry Christmas From The Documentary Blog! Here’s Your Present!First off, merry X-Mas and all that. I hope you all have the most wonderful of holidays! So I was trying to think of something to post that's both non-fiction and Christmas related but wasn't having much luck. SO...I decided to post a holiday video I just finished a butt-load of work on over at our sister site, Film Junk. It might not be completely documentary related but hey, it's X-Mas!! So, it's time to introduce The Documentary Blog's readers to Reed Farrington, a great friend of mine and a truly mysterious human being. In A Very Gerry X-Mas we ...
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07.22.10Canwest-Hot Docs Fund Recipients AnnouncedToday the recipients for this year's Canwest-Hot Docs funding were announced and what makes this especially exciting is that the Documentary Blog's own head honcho Jay Cheel's first feature documentary Beauty Day was among those chosen. For those that don't know about the film yet the synopsis is below: Before there was Tom Green…before there was Jackass…there was Ralph Zavadil. His cable access television show, The Cap’n Video Show, ran from 1990 to 1995, spawning a small but loyal cult following. Each week, Ralph performed a series of idiotic and occasionally dangerous stunts, challenging the sensibilities of Southern Ontario audiences for five seasons. ...
