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About ParaDocs Productions

Hadas Levy of ParaDocs Productions is an activist and documentary filmmaker. She has been working with community television, artist-run video centres, and the Documentary Organization of Canada in Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver since 1992.

Hadas is interested in using video and film to inspire dialogue and positive action for environmental and social change.

This interest has led to a number of initiatives and involvements:
  • Reel to Real Youth Film Festival Board Member and Programmer (2006-Present)
    http://r2rfestival.org/  
  • organizing screenings and facilitating discussions of social issue documentaries (2003-2006)
  • co-founding and hosting Cue Up, a monthly free and open screening for local filmmakers to screen and discuss completed or works in progress (2005-2006)
  • Active member ofVancouver's Independent Community Television- ICTV  (2003-present)
  • Member of the Documentary Organization of Canada’s Professional Development Committee. Organizing and promoting monthly workshops and networking events (2003-2006)

Present Projects: 

  • filming a documentary about human consumption habits and their repercussions on the earth and its inhabitants
  • researching a documentary about activists in North America
  • filming a documentary about 79-year-old Betty Krawczyk, a great-grandmother imprisoned for her involvement in protesting the devastation of BC’s ancient forests 

Past Projects:

  • Coordinated water, the National Film Board’s CITIZENShift initiative (2006-2007) 
  • Curated Reflections on Water, a travelling film and video program dealing with water issues co-presented by Cineworks Filmmakers Society (2006)
  • Managed Tales from Bridgeview, an NFB Digital Storytelling Project under the direction of Nettie Wild (2006)
  • Peacing It Together, a promotional video for The Creative Peace Network.  Highlights of the first Jewish/Moslem youth peace camp that took place in Vancouver (2004) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7262308444148529293
  • Human Rights Stories, a PSAC Agriculture Union video, dealing with various human rights issues in British Columbia (2006)
  • editSix, “a video tapestry borrowing from the efforts of six video artists into one presentation”, created by the Cue Up Collective and screened at Swarm (2005)
  • EASY ROLLIN’ co-created with Marianne Bos, a 17 minute live action film, has screened at many North American film festivals and continues to inspire through Free Speech TV and  Seattle’s Film Connection (2004) 
 








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To contact please email: cParaDocs@yahoo.ca



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