What is the connection between developping an AIDS vaccing and music sampling? How are we going to think about property now? It's been irrovecably changed. How do we face that?

I was in front of a tremendous force of life, like a little, strong and thin gold shaft of wheat, who shines without any doubts.

It's not overly serious at EyeSteel. It's social documentary work, but not too preachy. It's supposed to be more fun and adventerous. People who are self-starters and want to make their own films find that they can learn by working with us.

The films that I've made with Nick are always touching on two unanswerable questions: the relation between randomness and meaning, and the problem of evil.

We left at the end of the shoot with five interviews. We'd driven so much business away from the motel, the owners siad it took three months for the numbers to recover. When I called the patriarch to ask permission to return he said, "Let me tell you something: No."

Paul [Saltzman] looks good. Comfortable. When I sit down beside him, he smiles. It's been a long journey to get here, from the chance inception of the story, through four months of gaining trust in a small town high school, to the incredibly difficult task of talking to young people about their own biases and forms of racism in the 21st century.

Was it the moment that Werner Herzog walked into my cramped hotel room, or the end of the Albert Maysles interview when he gave that angelic smile he has and told me, “I enjoyed that”, or was it when I was huddling over one little space heater in a cold London garage totally entranced by Kim Longinotto and her great humanity?

Obomsawin montages idyllic paintings, archival photographs, and nature images into a reverie of a lost paradise where work was linked to land and water, and therefore spirit.

As long as I have worked with the NFB there have been cutbacks, cutbacks, cutbacks. Over the last 15 years, the first places to get cuts were always the regions.

Call it truth in advertising; Sancho chronicles the making of a film in which exhaustion was not only a physical fact but an organizing artistic principle- Albert Serra's exquisitely minimalist Three-Wise-Men-And-a-Baby narrative Birdsong (2008).

If the broadcasters’ wishes are granted, it’s clear that the independent production sector is in for a rough ride, not to mention Canadian citizens as a whole.