Peter believed that documentary films could really change people’s minds—change the world and make it a better place. He was a good sparring partner.
Keep Reading"It’s a film I couldn’t have made if it weren’t for Peter’s selfless desire to share the world with the world," Yung Chang writes of Peter Wintonick's impact on China Heavyweight.
Keep ReadingI have mixed feelings about our film, pilgrIMAGE, young as I was when we made it and rather self-conscious about being on camera. But Pete was unfailingly proud of it.
Keep ReadingPeter Wintonick was a one-off. He channelled his anger and frustration with the world’s injustices into media designed to motivate.
Keep ReadingLutz Dille created a unique body of documentary photographs that have stood the test of time and lhave a deeper resonance with the passage of time.
Keep ReadingPeter Wintonick was interviewed at great length by Pepita Ferrari for her acclaimed 2008 National Film Board feature Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary.
Keep Reading"It took nothing more than a kitchen table chat over a bottle of scotch for us to decide to proceed together on the film that would become Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and
Keep ReadingRemembering Peter Wintonick, Canada's documentary ambassador, with a personalized poem.
Keep ReadingPeter Wintonick and I never worked together on his films or mine. We just liked to hang out, do things together, talk about docs and discuss my newest rant about how the
Keep ReadingA lot can change in the span of a decade. During this time film studies at the University of Toronto has progressed from a college-controlled programme into an independent Cinema Studies Institute.
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