Everyone’s favourite Canadian awards, the Geminis (in case you wondered) were presented yesterday, including Halifax filmmaker Eric Bednarski’s The Strangest Dream, which won in the category of “Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series.” The film recounts the story of “Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons, and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences […]
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Cordell Barker’s perfect timing
Cordell Barker created a monster called The Cat Came Back. His 1988 animated short, which he made at the National Film Board, haunted him. “Oh yeah, I just lived under the shadow of that thing forever,” Barker admits on the phone from San Francisco, where later that day, he will present to Pixar. “In a […]