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13-516: He was a founding member/director of EyeSteelFilm documentary production company and its head of new media. He was the founder of the Open Source Cinema project and the web producer of Homeless Nation . He served as executive producer of Stealing Ur Feelings , Noah Levenson's interactive film about emotion recognition AI in consumer applications. He took part, alongside his fellow directors Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin (all three of

26-523: A Blue Train , a documentary about the beauty and hardship of playing music for commuter traffic focussing on Montreal's subway system, The Métro , that has 59 designated spots for musicians to perform for the public and finally Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive co-directed with fellow EyeSteelFilm directors Daniel Cross, Brett Gaylor and the students of Inukjuak - Innalik School . He served as cinematographer / producer on S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic ,

39-607: A theatrically released film about a squeegee punk named Roach. He also produced RoachTrip as a follow-up to S.P.I.T.. As director, he won the Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival in 2006 and as producer, he won a Genie Award for Up the Yangtze in 2009. In 2008 he was executive producer for Antoine . In 2009 he produced RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (producer) and Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam . In 2022 he

52-497: Is a documentary about "the changing concept of copyright". 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. His 2015 web documentary Do Not Track , explored issues related to internet privacy . His 2018 short animation OK Google chronicled a year in his son's life via Google Assistant searches. His 2020 film The Internet of Everything explored

65-454: Is the vice-president of the company. He is a graduate of Vanier College and McGill University in 1998. He was an editor of the McGill Daily during his studies. Aung-Thwin, an award-winning director made the films Chairman George on the stations CTV , BBC 's Storyville and TV 2 (Denmark) . as a co-director to Daniel Cross. Another co-direction with Cross was Too Colourful for

78-568: The 4th Canadian Screen Awards . Do Not Track received a Peabody Award for the Web category, an International Documentary Association Award for Best Series, and a Prix Gémeaux for Best Interactive Series. OK Google received a 2019 Webby Award . EyeSteelFilm EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal -based Canadian cinema production company co-founded by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin , dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression. Today

91-620: The Canada Council for the Arts , SODEC , CALQ , and National Film Board of Canada . Mila Aung-Thwin Mila Aung-Thwin is a Canadian documentary filmmaker , producer and activist whose films deal with social justice . He had a multi-disciplinary education in arts , journalism , and photography . In 1998, he met his fellow director/producer Daniel Cross and co-founded with him EyeSteelFilm specializing in making documentaries. He

104-519: The internet of things and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Program. His 2021 web documentary Discriminator explored how his flickr photos were used in training the megaface database. The documentary featured original research by Adam Harvey . The project was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. He collaborated with the Doha Debates to produce the 2024 podcast series Necessary Tomorrows . RiP!: A Remix Manifesto

117-513: The EyeSteelFilm production company) in a National Film Board of Canada initiative to teach Inuit students in a high school in Inukjuak , Nunavik ( Quebec ) to document their final year in the high school through film. 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 2008 film RiP!: A Remix Manifesto

130-517: The League , Gemini-nominated TV documentary examining the struggle of blacks in ice hockey from the 1930s to the present day telling the story of black players' courage and determination to play in a white-dominated sport. To his credit as sole director are the documentary Bone that follows Montreal's Snell Thouin Project with the extraordinary talents of Willy Tsao's Beijing Modern Dance Company, Music for

143-879: The audience awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Encounters Documentary festival in South Africa. In 2009, Gaylor was named the winner of the Don Haig Award from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival . Do Not Track presented as an interactive installation in the Storyscapes section of the Tribeca Film Festival . It was nominated for Best Original Program or Series, Non-Fiction at

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156-751: The studio is run by co-presidents Mila Aung-Thwin and Bob Moore. All three of the principals in the firm have been winners of the Don Haig Award for independent documentary film production from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival , with Cross winning in 2017, Moore in 2020, and Aung-Thwin in 2022. Films presently in progress include: EyeSteelFilm has received numerous awards from international film festivals and annual television and film awards. EyeSteelFilm has collaborated with international broadcasters including Super Channel , PBS , CBC , National Geographic Channel , The History Channel , BBC , YLE , TV2 Denmark , ZDF ARTE , The Documentary Channel , SBS, etc. They have received support from

169-934: Was shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2008, where it won the Audience Choice Award. In December 2008, it was shown during the Whistler Film Festival, winning the Cadillac People's Choice Award. It won the Audience Special Jury Prize in Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal and was a Special Selection at South by Southwest Film Festival (also known as SXSW ). It also won

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