Renewing English Canadian Dramatic T.V. & Film

Imagine ordinary people across Canada being as passionate about drama as they are about hockey. It can happen if we set up 180 small teams of professional movie makers to be community artists in residence across Canada. Each team will mobilize and work with their home communities to create dramatic features or [...]

Movie Making As Community Building Process

Canada can stimulate local cultures and economies at the grass roots by changing the way it invests in the creation and production of dramatic film and television. Instead of funneling money through a complicated maze of separate application processes that are insulated by a catch 22 system that rewards a shrinking number of [...]

The Future of Dramatic Cinema and Television

The business of dramatic cinema and television needs to change. Power must be decentralized and shared more widely and democratically. The biggest obstacle to this is the fact that the dramatic film and television production industry, as it is currently constituted, is a self serving box. This is a problem because the box [...]