2010 Spring
Table of Contents

Favourites have obviously been picked. For many of the students in this gym, REEL CANADA is their first exposure to Canadian film, and they are eating it up.

Katarina Gligorijevic

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FOCUS ON EDUCATION

Film Programmes in Canadian Colleges and Universities: A Survey

By Rachael Glassman

The first annual cross country look at cinema programmes being taught in Canada. An incisive and informative review by a 2009 Canadian film grad.

The Real Deal on Reel Canada By Katrina Gligoijevic

Reel Canada creates film festivals celebrating this nation’s cinema in high schools. Gligorijevic takes us behind the scenes of an educational programme with a difference.

Beyond the Textbook By Ezra Winton

Documentaries can be great learning tools for students – and sometimes, their teachers. In a society where film is often the new “text”, educators are harnessing docs in innovative ways.

European Documentaries Get Schooled By Melanie Sevcenko

Young filmmakers in Europe are receiving unofficial post-graduate degrees through working with documentary training programmes. By making films, they’re contribution their education.

A Finer Education By Janis Cole
Veteran doc-maker, OCAD education and POV editor Cole enrolled in Ryerson University’s first Documentary Masters programme. Here’s her analysis of the initiative.

TIFF and Film Education By Adam Nayman

Sprockets, the Film Circuit, Special Delivery and the Cinematheque are educational initiatives undertaken by the Toronto International Film Festival. Nayman surveys the Groups didactic accomplishments.

PERILOUS TIMES

Copenhagen’s Climate Change Circus By Zoe Cormier
What happened at COP15, the UN’s Climate Change Conference? Cormier offers a first hand account on the politics, the riots and the documentarians who were there.

Taking it from the Top By Nancy Lanthier

Intrepid journalist Lanthier takes the plunge and paraglides down a mountain with Peter Chrzanowski, adventurer and filmmaker of Sacred Flight, a new doc on the extreme sport. Anything for a story.

COLUMNS

SOUNDSCAPING: The Talented Mr. Danna By Heidi McKenzie

Soundscaping’s McKenzie returns to POV with a profile of Mychael Danna, the film composer for Atom Egoyan, Mira Nair and others.

BOOKS: When Worlds Collide
By Matt Hays

POLICY MATTERS: Features Not Ready for Prime Time
By Barri Cohen