Brian Fauteaux speaks with members of the CKUT News Collective at McGill University's campus-community radio station.

Jennifer Parisi interviews Lyn Gerry from the A-Infos Radio Project.

Martha Stiegman speaks with Manon Barbeau who organizes Wapikoni, a youth media project in Quebec's aboriginal communities.

Simon Tattrie interviews media literacy group, Co-op Collective Vision.

Cindy Poremba introduces the Kokoromi Collective, a small group of experimental game developers.

Dallas Curow interviews multi-media arts collective, Volatile Works.

Olivier Fortin interviews Philippe Vaucher of the Montreal Animation Collective, which included five alumni from Concordia's Film Animation Program. Their objective was to help members make their own films through collaboration and to support independent animation.

Michael Lithgow interviews VANGUARD, a graphic design group from Dawson College.

Ari Cohen discusses the ins and outs of acquiring rights when producing documentaries.  

Kirwan Cox discusses the current problems posed by copyright when making documentaries versus 30 years ago.

Filmmaker, visual artist and Concordia professor, Jean-Claude Bustros discusses his use of found footage and archival material, and ponders the ethics of copyrighting moving images.

Adam Symansky discusses issues surrounding copyright and the NFB, including the politics of negotiating licensing rights.

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Excerpt from the keynote address by Anand Patwardhan at the Visible Evidence XII conference held in Montreal in August of 2005.

Anand Patwardhan is India's most honoured and controversial documentary filmmaker. An independent activist artist based in Mumbai, Patwardhan has been committed since the 1970s to the development of politically challenging documentary forms, and to the struggle for freedom of speech, peace, and social/economic justice. He is best known internationally for his prizewinning feature documentaries such as Bombay our City (1985), In the Name of God (1992), Father, Son and Holy War (1994), and War and Peace (2002), which is being shown as our opening screening at Visible Evidence XII. His keynote address critiques the global processes of information gathering and dissemination in the post-9/11 world. He blows the whistle on the continuing prevalence of censorship and self-censorship within documentary culture through case studies from local and global media.

Anand Patwardhan est le documentariste indien le plus primé et controversé des vingt dernières années. Citoyen de Mumbai, artiste activiste indépendant, Patwardhan prône depuis les années 70 le développement de pratiques documentaires politiquement engagées. Il se bat également pour la liberté d'expression, la paix et une plus grande justice socio- économique. Il est internationalement reconnu pour ses long-métrages primés Bombay our City (1985), In the Name of God (1992), Father, Son and Holy War (1994) et War and Peace (2002). Ce dernier fait d'ailleurs office de projection d'ouverture de Visible Evidence XII. Sa présentation spéciale est une critique du processus globalisant de rassemblement et de diffusion de l'information dans le monde post-11 septembre. Fondant sa démarche critique sur l'analyse de nombreux médias locaux et globaux, il dénonce avec vigueur la prédominance continue de la censure et de l'auto-censure au sein de la culture documentaire.

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This second Podcast features the second half of a roundtable from the 2005 Visible Evidence Conference which was hosted by Concordia University in Montreal and features Nettie Wild and audience questions to the panel. Enjoy!

Current Challenges in Canadian and Québécois Documentary: a
Practitioners Roundtable organized by Documentary Organization of
Canada. Les défis actuels au sein du documentaire canadien et
québécois: Une table ronde de practiciens. Organisé par Les
Documentaristes du Canada.
Chair / Présidente: Monique Simard (Productions Virage)
Nettie Wild (Filmmaker)
Ali Kazimi (Filmmaker)
Daniel Cross (Concordia University)
Alanis Obomsawin (National Film Board of Canada)
Santiago Bertolino and Stephane Lahoud (Les Lucioles)

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This is the first of what will hopefully be many future podcast from the Concordia Documentary Centre.

In this first installment we will be showcasing a roundtable from the 2005 Visible Evidence Conference which was hosted by Concordia University in Montreal.  The following podcast has been separated into two parts the second of which can be heard on Podcast #2.  Enjoy!

Current Challenges in Canadian and Québécois Documentary: a Practitioners Roundtable organized by Documentary Organization of Canada. Les défis actuels au sein du documentaire canadien et québécois: Une table ronde de practiciens. Organisé par Les Documentaristes du Canada.
Chair / Présidente: Monique Simard (Productions Virage)
Nettie Wild (Filmmaker)
Ali Kazimi (Filmmaker)
Daniel Cross (Concordia University)
Alanis Obomsawin (National Film Board of Canada)
Santiago Bertolino and Stephane Lahoud (Les Lucioles)