Description
Red Button is a ground-breaking and innovative CBC digital series where young Canadian documentary subjects become the filmmakers, providing remarkably honest perspectives of marginalized and misunderstood communities
Website: https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/red-button-homeless-youth
Notes
- Discussed Jonathan's work with Red Button
- His experience in documentary film making and more specifically with subjects with disabilities
- Watched an introductory clip for the first series in Red Button: https://youtu.be/kdcQ65Rhag4
- Talked about his upcoming work
- documenting Blind Sailing Canada: http://blindsailing.ca/
- documenting a visually impaired individual who plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro
- The ethical dilemmas surrounding documentary work and compensation
- What recommendations we might have to help him or help his upcoming subjects best succeed
- A couple of links mentioned in the Vidyo chat:
- Humans of New York: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/about
- A paper about Disabled Diving: http://www.academia.edu/36041970/Disabled_Diving_Dialogues_Depth_of_me_