Iain Mitchell

Lights! Camera! No Action?

If the National Film Board can't stop the recurring charges of irrelevance, we may lose one of our most thoughtful forms of journalism

When the Sûreté du Québec crossed the barricades at Oka in July 1990, director Alanis Obomsawin knew the even had to be recorded. She was in the area working on a film, but upon hearing the news immediately called her executive producer at the National Film Board and asked to change her production and rush […]