Martin Duckworth
Martin Duckworth is a Montreal documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, who was on the staff of the National Film Board from 1963 to 1970 and has continued to work with them as a freelance filmmaker. He was a cinematographer on more than 100 films, and directed or co-directed 30, most of them with the NFB. In 2002, he was honored and named Artist for Peace and in 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Government of Quebec's Prix Albert-Tessier. He also taught film at Concordia University.
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Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Duration: 56 minutesSubscription access
Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles - Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet. It introduces viewers to the diversity of interpretation within today's jazz world, explores the roots of modern jazz ...
Fennario - The Good Fight
_Fennario - The Good Fight_ is David Fennario’s story, a journey into the life of one of Canada’s great playwrights and into the soul of a man who has never stopped fighting for the causes he believes in. Fennario hails from Verdun, Québec and his plays are all intimately connected to his hometown. At age 65, Fennario lives in a wheelchair, a victim of an unknown paralyzing syndrome that was fi...
A Wives' Tale
A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As the women became increasingly involved in the strike, they questioned more and more their traditional supportive role. This provoked many heated discussions among the women and obviously not without upsetting husband, family, union - and company...
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Duration: 56 minutesSubscription access
Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles - Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet. It introduces viewers to the diversity of interpretation within today's jazz world, explores the roots of modern jazz ...
Fennario - The Good Fight
_Fennario - The Good Fight_ is David Fennario’s story, a journey into the life of one of Canada’s great playwrights and into the soul of a man who has never stopped fighting for the causes he believes in. Fennario hails from Verdun, Québec and his plays are all intimately connected to his hometown. At age 65, Fennario lives in a wheelchair, a victim of an unknown paralyzing syndrome that was fi...
A Wives' Tale
A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As the women became increasingly involved in the strike, they questioned more and more their traditional supportive role. This provoked many heated discussions among the women and obviously not without upsetting husband, family, union - and company...
