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Montréal, tales of gentrification in a bohemian city (redux)
Montreal, tales of gentrification in a bohemian city. Montréal: histoire de la gentrification d’une ville bohème. This 80 minute documentary examines the rapid push for condo development in Montréal. Residents speak about how this development is having an effect in communities all across the city. I finished this film back in September 2011, then I…
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Catching a break in Nairobi: How two Canadian freelancers covered the Westgate mall shooting
Two recent Canadian journalism graduates, dreaming of careers as international journalists, caught the break of a lifetime landing a fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada. Wanting to combine her passion for journalism and travel, French journalist Flavie Halais applied for, and was awarded, the international fellowship. “I dreamed of working abroad as a journalist…
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A portrait of gentrification in Johannesburg
The mean streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, put fear into the hearts of the most hardened. But a Canadian documentary filmmaker brushes off how she was once carjacked at gunpoint as if it were like being stuck in traffic on the Ville-Marie Expressway. Shannon Walsh, director of H2Oil, is screening her latest project at the…
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Rights Radio Report #3: War & Peace games
Every year at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, political science students undergo an intensive peacebuilding exercise. This is all part of a class to train students how to overcome bureaucratic obstacles post-conflict. McGill professor Rex Brynen created a unique peacebuilding simulation game to give them a real-world experience. The fictional country is Brynania, named after…
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Culture Unplugged “Humanity Explored” online film fest
Earlier this year I was asked by organizers of the Culture Unplugged film festival to contribute two of my films to the upcoming online festival themed “Humanity Explored.” I agreed and submitted my short film called “Burgundy” about the struggle of Montreal’s historic black community, known as Little Burgundy, to reopen the Negro Community Centre,…
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