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_