Brett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Victoria , British Columbia . He grew up on Galiano Island , British Columbia . He was formerly the VP of Mozilla's Webmaker Program. His documentary, Do Not Track , explores privacy and the web economy.
12-524: He was a founding member/director of EyeSteelFilm documentary production company and its head of new media. He was the founder of the Open Source Cinema project and the web producer of Homeless Nation . He served as executive producer of Stealing Ur Feelings , Noah Levenson's interactive film about emotion recognition AI in consumer applications. He took part, alongside his fellow directors Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin (all three of
24-579: A Canadian national collective voice by and for Canada's homeless population. Cross is a professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema , Concordia University, Montreal Cross is a graduate of Concordia University , BFA 91, MFA 98. Cross directed the films The Street: A Film with the Homeless and S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic , where hundreds of homeless people from Montreal shared their many, amazing stories with him. From
36-497: Is a documentary about "the changing concept of copyright". 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. His 2015 web documentary Do Not Track , explored issues related to internet privacy . His 2018 short animation OK Google chronicled a year in his son's life via Google Assistant searches. His 2020 film The Internet of Everything explored
48-571: The 4th Canadian Screen Awards . Do Not Track received a Peabody Award for the Web category, an International Documentary Association Award for Best Series, and a Prix Gémeaux for Best Interactive Series. OK Google received a 2019 Webby Award . EyeSteelFilm EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal -based Canadian cinema production company co-founded by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin , dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression. Today
60-568: The Canada Council for the Arts , SODEC , CALQ , and National Film Board of Canada . Daniel Cross (filmmaker) Daniel Cross a Canadian documentary filmmaker , producer and activist whose films deal with social justice. Cross is co-founder and president of EyeSteelFilm with fellow director/producer Mila Aung-Thwin . He is also founder of Homeless Nation , a non-profit internet endeavor that started in 2006 and has become
72-525: The internet of things and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Program. His 2021 web documentary Discriminator explored how his flickr photos were used in training the megaface database. The documentary featured original research by Adam Harvey . The project was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. He collaborated with the Doha Debates to produce the 2024 podcast series Necessary Tomorrows . RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
84-524: The EyeSteelFilm production company) in a National Film Board of Canada initiative to teach Inuit students in a high school in Inukjuak , 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 2008 film RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
96-947: The audience awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Encounters Documentary festival in South Africa. In 2009, Gaylor was named the winner of the Don Haig Award from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival . Do Not Track presented as an interactive installation in the Storyscapes section of the Tribeca Film Festival . It was nominated for Best Original Program or Series, Non-Fiction at
108-566: The movie, came the idea of a forum where these stories would not be lost and where Canada's homeless community could share their stories and refuse to be ignored. Both films received theatrical distribution, international broadcast and critical acclaim Cross also has experience in TV broadcasting, having directed and produced the Gemini nominated Too Colourful for the League and Chairman George on
120-538: The stations CTV , BBC 's Storyville and TV 2 (Denmark) . Chairman George won awards at the AFI/Silverdocs and at Guangzhou Documentary Festival. He was the executive producer of the internationally acclaimed Up the Yangtze , about a pleasure cruise through the devastation the world's largest hydro-electric dam caused. In addition to making films, Cross is active in the film community, serving on
132-751: The studio is run by co-presidents Mila Aung-Thwin and Bob Moore. All three of the principals in the firm have been winners of the Don Haig Award for independent documentary film production from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival , with Cross winning in 2017, Moore in 2020, and Aung-Thwin in 2022. Films presently in progress include: EyeSteelFilm has received numerous awards from international film festivals and annual television and film awards. EyeSteelFilm has collaborated with international broadcasters including Super Channel , PBS , CBC , National Geographic Channel , The History Channel , BBC , YLE , TV2 Denmark , ZDF ARTE , The Documentary Channel , SBS, etc. They have received support from
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#1732782315551144-1005: Was shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2008, where it won the Audience Choice Award. In December 2008, it was shown during the Whistler Film Festival, winning the Cadillac People's Choice Award. It won the Audience 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 ). It also won
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