Featured Work:

WINNER: Rights & Democracy Film Award – Global Film Festival
WINNER: 1st Place Documentary Award – BC Student Film Festival

Official Selection: 2010 Okanagan International Film Festival
Official Selection: 2010 Traveling World Community Film Festival
Official Selection: 2010 Nanaimo Global Film Festival
Official Selection: 9th Annual World Community Film Festival – Vancouver
Official Selection: 19th World Community Film Festival – Vancouver Island
Official Selection: 2009 Nanaimo Film Festival
Official Selection: 2009 International Media Democracy Day

“Wow, phenomenally done! Great research…Flawless from top to bottom. Ready for broadcast!”

~ BC Student Film Festival

BE THE MEDIA:

A local approach to establishing an alternative voice

(Filmmakers: Nick Middleton and Chad Schroter-Gillespie)

Filmmakers Middleton and Gillespie explore the revolutionary role of alternative media and collaborative citizen journalism and present a refreshing and inspiring solution to an alarming pattern of deregulation and privatization in Canada’s media industry; a trend that has resulted in some of the highest levels of media concentration in the Western world.

Featuring interviews with a diverse cast of inspired citizens, including an innovative publisher; an internationally acclaimed environmental journalist and blogger; an independent filmmaker and citizen journalist; a politically charged musician and spoken word activist; the founder of TAR – a pirate radio station; and a local media critic and established academic, Be the Media offers up a unique and proactive approach to democratizing the media.