Date
Posted: March 10,
2006
Event
Date: Monday, March
13th, 2 PM
The Concordia Documentary Centre and Cinema Politica
present:
The second event in a new series of research seminars that examine
documentary filmmaking in contemporary Canadian society. Join us in a
discussion with our guest, Mary Ellen Davis, director of HAUNTED LAND. Mary Ellen will be discussing the
role of solidarity films, and especially the process of making documentaries in
Canada that tell an international story. Mary Ellen's award-winning film will
screen on the same day, at 7:30 PM in Room H-110 of the Hall Building (McKay
and DeMaisonneuve). For information on the film and the screening, visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org.
WHAT: Doc Seminar discussion with Mary Ellen Davis
WHEN: 2 PM, Monday, March 13th
WHERE: Room VA 245 - Visual Arts Building: 1395 RenŽ LŽvesque
Blvd. W.
The Canadian Documentary Research Seminar Series at
Concordia is a
series of conversations with Canadian documentary filmmakers to take place in
conjunction with Cinema Politica film screenings. Each seminar will bring
together a group of filmmakers, graduate students, professors and individuals
connected with the Canadian documentary industry to discuss topics related to
documentary film in Canada. The conversations will emphasize context over
content and will work to strengthen the interplay between filmmakers,
researchers, community members, and subjects. We will also explore changing
trends in production and distribution. At each session key questions will be
explored by the invited filmmaker and all participating guests.
The Concordia Documentary Centre/Centre du documentaire
Concordia is
an interdisciplinary research centre within the Faculty of Fine Arts for the
fostering of scholarly research and creative activity within the field of
documentary arts and media, a home for the interdisciplinary network of Fine
Arts-based researchers, teachers, students, documentary artists and archivists
committed since 2001 to the fostering of documentary research, culture and
activities at Concordia, across Canada, and internationally.
Cinema Politica is a free political film series held at
universities and cultural centres across Canada. Through the art of film
we inform and inspire audiences in the hope that they will respond and act
to effect positive change. Screenings are used as a forum
for discussion, and filmmakers and community activists
are often invited to participate.
For more information about both the Canadian Documentary
Research Seminar Series or Cinema Politica, please email Ezra Winton at:ezra@uberculture.org, or Liz Miller at: elizabeth.miller@sympatico.ca
For more information on Cinema Politica, please visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org.
Ezra Winton
Programming Coordinator
Ÿberculture collective
Cell: 514.265.1217
Office: 514.313.3478
Ÿberculture Headquarters,
5620 Av. Du Parc, Suite #1,
Montreal, Quebec, H2V 4H1
Ÿberculture is a grassroots, non-profit collective committed
to reclaming culture. We are concerned with the loss of cultural
diversity due to a commercial culture industry based on the self-interested
actions of multinational corporations. Through thorough research and
creative action, we expose and resist the commodification of society.
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