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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
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