Film festival in Powell River features movies with ‘challenging’ issues
By Vanessa Bjerreskov, Powell River Peak Discussion, lectures and presentations round out cinematic experience for festival-goers. Read full article at prpeak.com…...
Essays
My adventures with assholes
15:48 09 January
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By John Walker, director, Assholes: A Theory If someone had told me I would be having a conversation about assholes with the governor general of New Zealand, Dame Patsy Reddy, and her husband, Sir David Gascoigne, or that I would be sitting beside comedic legend John...
This Election Season, a Slew of Films and Books on Democracy Polluted
16:53 09 October
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By Dorothy Woodend, The Tyee Many new docs chronicle the poisoning of our electoral institutions. Watch, learn, and fight. Read full article at thetyee.ca…...
Think a**holes get a leg up? Here are some well-thought-out theories
By Stuart Peddle Saint Mary’s University Ethics Professor Mark Mercer and filmmaker John Walker both consider the seeming rise in malevolent behaviour. Read full article at thechronicleherald.ca…...
CRADLE takes on the a*hole problem
By Jonathan Miller Robert C. Hockett, co-founder of the Cornell Research Academy for Development, Law and Economics (CRADLE), is one of several Cornellians featured in the documentary film “Assholes: A Theory.” He and his colleagues work to promote the study of policies that protect ordinary people...
Essay Films in the Age of Trump
13:01 29 April
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Some thoughts on John Walker’s Assholes, Fred Peabody’s The Corporate Coup d’État and Larry Weinstein’s Propaganda...
A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FROM JOHN WALKER
A JOHN WALKER PRODUCTION IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA IN ASSOCIATION WITH DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
CINEMATOGRAPHER PAUL MCCURDY EDITOR JEFF WARREN COMPOSER SANDY MOORE SOUND DESIGNER ALEX SALTER ANIMATOR RON MCDOUGALL LOCATION SOUND JIM RILLIE PRODUCERS ANN BERNIER ANNETTE CLARKE JOHN WALKER WRITTEN BY JOHN WALKER ROBERT SANDLER DIRECTED & NARRATED BY JOHN WALKER
A John Walker Production in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with documentary Channel and Canada Media Fund, with the assistance of the Government of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Film & Television Production Incentive Fund, Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds, through the Theatrical Documentary Program, Rogers Telefund and The Canadian Film or Video Film Tax Credit and developed with the assistance of Superchannel
