Brett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Montreal, Quebec.[1] Born in 1978, he grew up on Galiano Island, British Columbia. He is a member director of EyeSteelFilm and it's web guru.
He is the founder of the Open Source Cinema project and the web producer of Homeless Nation.[2][3]
His pitch for the documentary Puff Daddy, about a pot grow-op, won the largest prize at the Banff World Television Festival in 2005.[4][5]
He took part, alongside his fellow directors Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin (all three of the EyeSteelFilm production company)m in a National Film Board of Canada initiative to teach Inuit students in a high school in Inukjuak, Quebec, Nunavik (Quebec) documenting their final year in the high school. The result was Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive a joint 58-minute 2004 documentary by 8 students from the Inukjuak - Innalik School.
His latest production is a documentary about the "the changing concept of copyright".[6][7] Entited RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, it was shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2008[8] and won the Audience Choice Award. In December 2008 it was shown during the Whistler Film Festival[9], winning the Cadillac People’s Choice Award.[10] It won the Special Jury Prize in Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal and was a Special Selectiion at South by Southwest Film Festival (also known as SXSW).
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a call to overhaul copyright laws. As the title suggests, this documentary is particularly interested in the legally grey area of remixing existing works.
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