Thomas Waugh

Queer Film Classics: Fire & Montreal Main

Monday, November 8, 2010 - 8:00pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W

TINARS presents Queer Film Classics with film clips from Deepa Mehta’s Fire and Frank Vitale’s Montreal Main will be shown and discussed by the celebrated scholar, author and queer rights pioneer, Tom Waugh; the Zakir Hussain Professor of Media at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Ja Read more

Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the NFB

Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the NFB

Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton hosted the evening at the NFB John Spotton Cinema. Many of the original makers of Challenge for Change documentaries were in attendance and offered their own stories about the makings of the docs. Film clips were shown to add to an inspirational event.

Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the NFB

Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 7:00pm
National Film Board Mediatheque, 150 John St, Toronto

How has documentary cinema changed Canadian society over the past forty years or so? Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle was an ambitious bilingual initiative that brought together the unlikely partners of government bureaucrats, documentary filmmakers, community activists and ordinary citizens. Read more

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