Inside the Cirque: An Interview With Director Bruce Thorson

Interview by Ilka de Laat, Associate Producer of Doc Zone Q: Filming a behind-the-scenes documentary about Cirque du Soleil, the biggest show on earth, you must have faced challenges? Just as you were following the Varekai team from Taiwan to South Korea, the earthquake hit Japan. There was no one single challenge; there were many and varied challenges: the radiation... Read more »

8th Fire: Creating a New Relationship with Canada's Aboriginal Peoples

Written by Kelly Crichton, Senior Producer, CBC  I'll give it to you straight.  "8th Fire" - the CBC's four-part TV series on how to create a new relationship with Canada's Aboriginal Peoples, is the most challenging series I've worked on in forty-some years as a practising journalist.  It's also for me, the most humbling and the most exhilarating. It's challenging... Read more »