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THE BODYBUILDER AND I (2007)
A little-known doc from a first-time Canadian filmmaker who is wrestling with his paternal relationship. His Dad, aged 60, has become a competitive bodybuilder, much to his humiliation. Solid film. Great soundtrack by Jim Guthrie. Available through the NFB. Look for it online.

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
-- John Updike

JRILL 2.0

The concept behind JRILL was conceived by filmmaker Mike Gallay in 2003. Would it be possible to film a movie utilizing directors, crews and subjects in multiple locations, under the guise of a single visionary at the helm…and all coordinated online?

Gallay Hartt Documents and JRILL say yes it is. Currently in development, JRILL open-source filmmaking will allow directors from around the globe, regardless of resources, to command an army of profit-sharing filmmakers to create projects that would require crews, casts, travel, budgets and resources that currently only the major studios and wealthy independents can afford.

JRILL’s movement for open source filmmaking is on a scale you have not yet imagined, utilizing the capabilities of application-serving online to construct edit workflows that are simple to transfer your expertise towards, extensive in their capability and professional-grade. This is combined with a communication and project-drafting suite that allows directors to corral other would-be youtube.com filmmaker-types and nurture them in a project environment with greater aspirations than short low-resource one-offs.

We hope to have a beta-model available sometime in 2010. Please stay tuned and get in touch if you would like to be involved. We are always looking for programmers…and, of course, investors.

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