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April 4, 2005
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CanDocs – Summer 2005

BRITISH COLUMBIA — Katherine Dodds The Communist Joke Book Vancouver Screen Siren Leah Mallen met UK director Ben Lewis (of BBC Art Safari fame), at an art conference in Ottawa. Lewis had pitched a feature doc idea at IDFA, for a historical account of communist jokes. As for Mallen, she was fascinated by the concept of how

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BRITISH COLUMBIA — Katherine Dodds Paris Stories Paris Stories, The Fiction of Mavis Gallant tells the story of Canada’s famously “unknown” writer. One of The New Yorker’s most frequently published short story writers, Gallant often

CanDocs – Winter 2004

BRITISH COLUMBIA — Katherine Dodds Adam’s Eyes Adam is 12-year-old boy. His mother is

CanDocs – Fall 2004

BRITISH COLUMBIA – Katherine Dodds Secrets “It was going to be a

CanDocs – Summer 2005

by Katherine Dodds Kalli Paakspuu Laura Turek Steven James May
April 4, 2005
Features/Industry

BRITISH COLUMBIA — Katherine Dodds The Communist Joke Book Vancouver Screen Siren Leah Mallen met UK director Ben Lewis (of BBC Art Safari fame), at an art conference in Ottawa. Lewis had pitched a feature doc idea at IDFA,

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CanDocs – Spring 2005

by Katherine Dodds Kalli Paakspuu Laura Turek Steven James May
February 2, 2005
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BRITISH COLUMBIA — Katherine Dodds Paris Stories Paris Stories, The Fiction of Mavis Gallant tells the story of Canada’s famously “unknown” writer. One of The New Yorker’s most frequently published short story writers, Gallant often

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CanDocs – Winter 2004

by Katherine Dodds Kalli Paakspuu Laura Turek Steven James May
December 2, 2004
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BRITISH COLUMBIA — Katherine Dodds Adam’s Eyes Adam is 12-year-old boy. His mother is a filmmaker. Adam also has a form of autism known as Asperger’s Syndrome. Director/Producer and mother Marianne Kaplan decided to

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CanDocs – Fall 2004

by Kalli Paakspuu Steven James May Laura Turek Katherine Dodds
September 3, 2004
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BRITISH COLUMBIA – Katherine Dodds Secrets “It was going to be a look at how sex education has changed over the last 50 years,” says producer Trish Williams about Secrets, the one-hour

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