WORKSHOP: A Master Class with John Walker
A special presentation in collaboration with DOC Winnipeg

* Registration fee: $40 / $25 members
* Series passes accepted

As filmmakers push the boundaries of genre and form, documentary hybrids and feature documentaries that borrow and adapt, bend and remake the notion of non-fiction filmmaking have emerged. From Guy Maddin's docu-fantasia My Winnipeg to John Greyson's documentary opera Fig Trees, hybrid documentaries are increasingly popular with directors and audiences alike. John Walker's Passage,a documentary about British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men who perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, is among this new form.

John Walker broke both fiction and non-fiction ideas apart to create the stunning, innovative and provocative work that is Passage. Walker will review the process of making Passage from its original proposal to the aesthetic choices that resulted in casting actors to present historical facts in a documentary feature, and his unique twist on those facts. 

ABOUT JOHN WALKER:
A pioneering documentary Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker, John Walker began working as a cinematographer for Crawley Films in 1975 and over the years has worked on a superb body of work beginning with his first film, the multiple award-winning Chambers: Tracks and Gestures (about Canadian artist Jack Chambers) produced by Atlantis Films in 1981. The following year, his passionate commitment to the documentary form led him to co-found the Canadian Independent Film Caucus (now the Documentary Organization of Canada). Walker has credits on more than sixty films as producer, director or cinematographer many which have received international acclaim and have been widely broadcast and screened at many of the world’s major film festivals. (Film Reference Library)