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Cry Rock
documentary short
The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the intersection of story, place and culture.
director, writer, producer: Banchi Hanuse
animation: Jay White
cinematography: Sylvaine Dufaux
editors: Carmen Pollard, Erin Cumming
original score: Joelysa Pankanea
Produced by Smayaykila Films.
Selected Festivals: Vancouver International Film Festival, Yorkton Film Festival, American Indian Film Festival, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Fargo Film Festival
Snare
experimental short
Spare and visually arresting, with a haunting soundtrack, SNARE is a performance-based piece that captures the brutality of violence against aboriginal women, as well as the possibility of healing and grace.
director, writer: Lisa Jackson
producers: Ki White, Lisa Jackson
cinematography: Andrew Coppin
editor: Carmen Pollard
Produced by Lisa Jackson.
Selected Festivals: Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Edmonton Film Festival, NW Filmmakers Festival, imagineNATIVE 2014 Ontario Film & Video Tour
Citizen Sam
documentary feature
This feature documentary is a portrait of Sam Sullivan, a quadriplegic city councillor running for Vancouver mayor. Blending the rough and tumble of the campaign with intimate moments from Sullivan's daily life, the film is an unflinching portrait of the one-of-a-kind politician.
director, writer, cinematography: Joe Moulins
producer: Tracey Freisen
picture & story editor, graphic design: Carmen Pollard
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Selected Festivals: Whistler Film Festival
Planet Hunters
documentary hour — CBC Nature of Things
Planet Hunters follows astrophysicists at the forefront of the search for Earth’s twin.
director, writer: Jerry Thompson
producer: Terence McKeown
editor, graphic design: Carmen Pollard
Produced by Lightship Entertainment in association with CBC.
Playing God with Planet Earth
documentary hour — CBC Doc Zone
Can scientists roll back the effects of global warming? Geoengineering schemes — like spraying acid in the sky to block out the sun — may rehabilitate the climate. Or trigger planetary disaster.
director, writer: Jerry Thompson
producers: Terence McKeown, Bette Thompson
editor, animation supervisor: Carmen Pollard
Produced by Lightship Entertainment in association with CBC.
100 Mile Challenge
documentary Series
An experiment in food consumption that has the residents of Mission, B.C., only eating foods that come from within 100 miles of their homes over a span of 100 days.
director: Eddie O
producers: David Paperny, Cal Shumiatcher
editors: Carmen Pollard, Patrick Carroll
Produced by Paperny Entertainment in association with Food Network Canada.