Aysha Productions

10/29/2016

Check this out! So proud to be the Moderator this evening... with the great talented Nick Hector -- who's edited Aysha Productions docs for almost 20 years!

We're thrilled to announce our MASTER CLASS with editor Nick Hector, frequent collaborator of preeminent documentarians such as Allan King and Sturla Gunnarsson.

On Nov 23, join us for a fascinating look into the creation of seminal films in the documentary canon: http://bit.ly/2eUpb4L

10/01/2015

TVO's Featured Filmmakers for the Short Doc Contest 2016 are Sunny Yi and John Haslett Cuff.

11/05/2014

Sunny's radio documentary about becoming Canadian is playing tonight on CBC's IDEAS. You can also listen on the website.

Ideas, stories, and reflections on being Canadian: who we are, what we are, and what it means to be a

05/12/2014

Documentary Filmmaking Institute (DFI)'s new Graduate Certificate now starts in September. Please spread the word that we are accepting applications now!

http://www.senecacollege.ca/dfi/gradcert

Seneca is at the forefront of providing student-focused teaching and learning that is redefining how people think about postsecondary education.

04/22/2014

in light of our doc ECHOES about mothers in China who had to give up their baby girls...

Growing numbers of Chinese have hired American surrogates, allowing a couple to get around China's ban on the procedure and its birth limits. It also guarantees a coveted U.S. passport.

04/08/2014

DFI in Metro! Follow the link for the whole article!

http://pages.cdn.pagesuite.com/2/0/20aa3cab-7acb-427b-864e-9fbec5f8ec46/page.pdf

03/12/2014

tune in! Tonight at 9 pm (ET), "Echoes" explores this subject from the perspectives of the women who are faced with the decision to give up their children and the women who raise them on the other side of the world.

Hear intimate stories from the Chinese mothers who “gave up” their babies at birth. While this is still a sensitive subject in China, some women are ready to speak up and let their voices be heard after years of suffering in silence and carrying the burden and the guilt of their action.

02/15/2014

http://hotdocslibrary.ca/en/detail.cfm?filmId=26157

Hot Docs Doc Library: celebrating Canada's rich documentary filmmaking heritage with access to hundreds of free videos. Browse the library for scores of outstanding documentaries, all by Canadian filmmakers.

02/15/2014

http://www.rrj.ca/m3713/

In which our correspondent confronts John Haslett Cuff, perhaps the most hated man in canadian TV, and Figures out the nature of his game

02/15/2014

http://www.robertfulford.com/2004-04-13-cuff.html

John Haslett Cuff's film about adultery, Crimes of the Heart, may be only a minor event in the history of egomania, but it has some interesting stories to tell, not all of them explicit or intentional. The one-time TV critic of The Globe and Mail, Cuff sets out to analyze a rich and always fertile s...

02/15/2014

You never know where your work will show up, and in what context, and how the information is (or isn't) correctly represented.

Hey everyone, I have created a blog for my Principles of Social Theory class that focuses on theoretical ideas that focus on social inequalities, forms of power, culture, hegemony, social justice and crime that sociologists and criminologists analyze. I am required to reflect on the topics in class…