Posted on September 24, 2007 by Kimberly Smith
The language of motion pictures has been mastered by a relatively small proportion of our population and this has resulted in a power imbalance that threatens the integrity of Democracy. Acquiring literacy in the language of motion pictures is essential for all people because the language of motion pictures dominates public discourse and [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2007 by Kimberly Smith
When I joined the Director’s Guild of Canada as an Associate Member in 1988, most people in the industry bemoaned what they called “the crisis in English Canadian Dramatic Film and Television”. The ratings were horrendously low – somewhere between two and five percent of English [...]
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