Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
The impact of consumer video equipment on international political activism efforts.
Casts & Crew
Katerina Cizek
Narrator
Also Directed by Katerina Cizek
“A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues of social equality in an increasingly urbanized world. The centerpiece of the project is four short films. The first three (“Mud,” “Concrete” and “Glass”) draw on The New York Times's extraordinary visual archives, a repository of millions of photographs that have largely been unseen in decades. Each film is intended to evoke a chapter in a storybook, with rhyming narration and photographs brought to life with intricate animation. The fourth chapter (“Home”) comprises images submitted by the public. The interactive experience incorporates the films and, like a visual accordion, allows viewers to dig deeper into the project’s themes with additional archival materials, text and microgames.
Americans are passionate about their constitution. Canadians aren’t. Supreme Law is here to change that. Made in partnership with the Centre for Constitutional Studies and directed by two-time Emmy winner Katerina Cizek, this interactive documentary brings together Canadian YouTube stars, constitutional scholars, historic video clips, and meticulously researched background on one of the most important and dramatic political events in Canada of the 20th century.
Window Visits documents a family’s weekly afternoon visits to a long-term care facility from a child’s perspective.
Portrait of NFB filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.
Also Directed by Peter Wintonick
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A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
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A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
