Brett Gaylor
Brett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Montreal, Quebec.[1] Born in 1977, he grew up on Galiano Island, British Columbia. He is a member director of EyeSteelFilm documentary production company and its Head of New Media.
He is the founder of the Open Source Cinema project and the web producer of Homeless Nation.[2][3]
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[edit] Documentaries
He took part, alongside his fellow directors Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin (all three of the EyeSteelFilm production company) in a National Film Board of Canada initiative to teach Inuit students in a high school in Inukjuak, Quebec, Nunavik (Quebec) to document their final year in the high school through film. The result was Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive a joint 58-minute 2004 documentary by 8 students from the Inukjuak - Innalik School.
His latest production is entitled RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a documentary about "the changing concept of copyright".[4][5] RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a call to overhaul copyright laws. As the title suggests, this documentary is particularly interested in the "legally grey area" of remixing existing works.
[edit] Festivals and Awards
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto was shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2008[6] where it won the Audience Choice Award.
In December 2008, it was shown during the Whistler Film Festival,[7] winning the Cadillac People’s Choice Award.[8]
It won the Special Jury Prize in Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal and was a Special Selection at South by Southwest Film Festival (also known as SXSW).
[edit] See also
- EyeSteelFilm
- Open Source Cinema
- RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
- Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive
- Homeless Nation
[edit] References
- ^ Lee, Ellen. "Stanford's Lessig tackling even bigger battle", San Francisco Chronicle, 2008-02-01, p. A1.
- ^ Mathewson, Alec. "Interview with Brett Gaylor (Open Source Cinema)".
- ^ Louter, Lysanne. "They're homeless but connected", The Gazette, 2005-11-27, p. A6.
- ^ Kirsner, Scott. "CinemaTech Filmmaker Q&A: Brett Gaylor of Open Source Cinema".
- ^ Sinnott, Shane. "The Load-Down", Montreal Mirror, 2007-03-29. Accessed 2008-06-30.
- ^ "winners at the IDFA festival 2008"
- ^ "iofilm review of RiP. A Remix Manifesto"
- ^ Maclean's article: Mashing-up copyright in ‘RiP: A Remix Manifesto.’
[edit] External links
- RiP!: A Remix manifesto - Open Source Cinema
- "Etherworks.ca, the home page of Brett Gaylor."
- CBC Search Engine interview with Brett Gaylor.
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