Community Meeting (Mar 6, 2019): Red Button short documentary series

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. Jonathan Jude is the producer of a few episodes of the upcoming series, which he'll be discussing with the community.

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_