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June 12, 2009
Phhewww! that took awhile! For the last 10-15 years, the oil companies and the Alberta government couldn’t go fast enough to maximize the number of billion dollar projects that would strip off the boreal forest to boil the oil out of the oil sands. Wages, and the cost of materials and housing in the little town of Fort McMurray skyrocketed while the environment took a serious pounding. Now former Alberta Premier Lougheed in a recent interview in the Globe and Mail is calling for the development of only one oil sands project at a time. It’s good, it’s great … but isn’t the horse already out of the barn or rather isn’t the HERD of horses already out of the barn? Maybe next time the Conservatives will actually conserve instead of ‘rape and pillage’?
See also our work on The Nature of Things w/David Suzuki documentaries When is Enough, Enough?
and When Less is More.
See Adam Radwanski’s interview with Peter Lougheed in the Globe and Mail on Monday, June 8th.
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May 28, 2009
In the year 2000, we made The Hospital at the End of the Earth for the CBC series The Nature of Things. It was about the human tragedy of probably the worst environmental tragedy of the 20th Century. Here are two pictures of the shrinking Aral Sea. The first was taken in the year we made our film and the other was taken in 2009. The black line is the boundary of the Aral Sea in the 1960s. It didn’t take long to cause this irreversible damage. It’s heartsickening to see and just so sad.
Aral Sea 2000
Aral Sea 2009
The Aral was once the 4th largest lake in the world, bigger than Lake Huron! There was a thriving fishing and tourist industry. Now there are thriving dust storms.
For more please see the page for The Hospital at the End of the Earth
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April 30, 2009
For more news and information from renowned British filmmaker and remarkable media critic Peter Watkins visit his website at …
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/
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April 13, 2009
Salaire minimum
Un documentaire engagé sur et avec les ouvriers/ouvrières
qui touchent le salaire minimum
On cherche surtout des participantes pour ce projet. Avez vous travaillé dans les emplois qui paient le salaire minimum? Voulez-vous participer dans un film documentaire? Je fais des recherches pour un documentaire sur les ouvriers/ouvrières qui touchent le salaire minimum. Dans ce projet, les participants seront des collaborateurs dans le récit de leur propre histoire. Le projet est en collaboration avec l’office national du film du Canada. À la première rencontre, je peux payer $40 pour une réunion qui dur 2 heures plus 2 billets pour le TTC. Si ça vous interesse je vous en prie de me contacter par courriel — gbowie@rogers.com Je vous promets une aventure intéressante.
Grace has been here 2 years and is still waiting for a work permit.
Plus de 17% des emplois en Ontario paient leurs travailleurs moins de 10 $ de l’heure. L’Ontario est aussi la seule province dans laquelle la proportion des emplois qui paient 10 $ de l’heure ou moins a augmenté au cours de la dernière décennie malgré une croissance économique stable.
Si les choses ne se sont pas améliorées pour les pauvres en période faste, la crise financière actuelle et ses retombées économiques risquent encore d’empirer la situation.
Salaire minimum sera un documentaire alternatif sur les travailleurs pauvres de la région de Toronto. Le film se dit documentaire alternatif parce qu’il sera réalisé avec ces personnes qui touchent le salaire minimum. Les participants seront des collaborateurs dans le récit de leur propre histoire. En utilisant l’énergie, la créativité et le vécu des participants, on créera quelque chose de plus profond qu’un simple film sur eux. Cela produira un film plus émouvant, plus passionné qui fera réfléchir le public.
Producteurs: Jacques Turgeon, Anne-Marie Rocher, Office national du film du Canada
Realisateur: Geoff Bowie
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March 26, 2009
You can find clips from many of our films, photos, reviews, and distribution information. There will be ongoing programming too from projects we’re working on. Maybe it will be useful to people interested in making documentaries and we’re experimenting with making web documentaries.
There’s other things too about yoga and a current favourite youtube music video and comments and posts on issues connected to the films we make and other interests we have.
It should be changing weekly or more often so come back if you share our interests. Hope you like some of our work.
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March 18, 2009
David Suzuki and Tom Berger outside Tuktoyaktuk, NWT in July. It was just about our last day of shooting Ghosts of Futures Past - Tom Berger in the North for the CBC series The Nature of Things.
That little hill in the background is made of ice and is called a “?”
