Peter Wintonick is troubled by the vampire trend in cinema, and he’s not talking about the Twilight series. Wintonick, the Montreal-based filmmaker behind such acclaimed documentaries as Manufacturing Consent, believes bureaucrats in the private and government sectors are guilty of “sucking the lifeblood” out of documentary filmmaking in Canada. Which is why he happily accepted […]
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Local family’s food miles documented
The McMillins may seem like an ordinary family, but they’re not. They’ve cut their food miles by nearly 70 percent and have done so without depriving themselves of any of life’s pleasures, like the hot chocolates they’re sipping in a downtown cafe. The family reduced their average food miles from 2,569 km/month to 880 km/month, […]
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Slow Food’s Edible Schoolyard doc released
Head to Keshen Goodman Library Sunday (Nov. 15, 2:30pm) for a screening of Slow Food Nova Scotia’s new documentary, The Edible Schoolyard. The film tells the story of a group of Summerville students with green thumbs. Dr. Arthur Hines’ elementary students have been tending a vegetable garden at school for nearly six years, as part […]
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Ariella Pahlke’s smoke signals
Living in rural Halifax, filmmaker Ariella Pahlke is used to sounds of the wild. And not just the chorus of chirping crickets and shushing leaves, but the piercing squeal of the real wild ones—drivers burning rubber. The activity, also called laying a patch, burning out, squealing tires or simply just givin’er, was foreign to Pahlke. […]
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Bigger than Jesus and The Beatles: so were the hopes for 1960s crooner Scott Walker. The American-born enigmatic singer won over the Brit-pop scene with his boy band The Walkers and their big hit, a cover of “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore).” Walker left the band to pursue his own bizarre, experimental brand of […]
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DJs come up on film
In Coconut Grove, just above the flickering neon lights of Pizza Corner, up the stairs from a glass window that appears to have a slight stain made by a hard fist, in a low-lit bar filled with candlelight, are the competitors for Phil Harris’ The Come Up documentary, getting ready to give Halifax its first […]