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Colin MacKenzie

Freelance contributor

Colin MacKenzie is an award-winning filmmaker now living in Montreal. In recent years he has focused his cinematic energies on documentary work. In 2019, he released a co-directed project for the NFB, Balakrishna, a 15-minute film mixing animation and archival footage which led to his work on his latest film, The Lobster Whisperer. His last two films looked at different relationships to animals. His next project may involve squirrels.

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    First Person

    Watching my brother-in-law build his lobster traps by hand taught me the value of old ways

    Spending weeks filming his brother-in-law carefully build his traps helped Colin MacKenzie understand the world this part of his family was living in. It was a doorway into a way of life that felt centuries away from his apartment in Montreal.
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