Contemporary Asian Studies

Eric worked with the marketing department at the Asian Institute to profile the Contemporary Asian Studies program.

Tin City Voices

Peter struggles to maintain relationships and explain his violent outbursts. Haunted by their memories of domestic abuse, Omela and Auntie look to make a better future for their children in Tiger Bay, Guyana. Tin City Voices premiered at the Montreal Film Festival, and went on to play Docs DF Mexico, and the Biarritz Film Festival. Directed by Elijah Marchand.

Storylines Advertisement

Eric worked with the creators of the interactive mobile game Storylines to make this 30 second spot.

Gelber Prize

How has the world changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? Featuring authors Steve Coll, Sir Paul Collier, Walter Russell Mead, and Adam Hochschild in conversation with John Stackhouse.

Create

Digital Innovation Conference held in 2016 – “What I consider the biggest problem in Syria today is the unconstrained bombing of civilians.”

FILM THREAT – ASK NO QUESTIONS Review

SLAMDANCE 2020 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Wildly intriguing and entertaining, Jason Loftus and Eric Pedicelli’s speculative documentary Ask No Questions plays out like a real-life episode of Black Mirror. The filmmakers do ask questions, which they know have no definitive answers – and yet, as their investigation gradually unfurls, horrific implications are revealed: an alleged, meticulously-planned, violent scheme by a controlling government to destroy a spiritual group that it deemed threatening. A lot is packed into Ask No Questions brief running time, so keep up… Source: https://filmthreat.com/reviews/ask-no-questions/

DEADLINE – A Film Festival Screening In VR? ‘Ask No Questions’ Documentary Is Trying It, And Here’s How It Will Look

The filmmakers behind this year’s Slamdance documentary Ask No Questions saw their film’s festival run waylaid this spring by the industry’s coronavirus shutdown. Now they are teaming with San Francisco’s DocFest, where the pic was headed next, in an effort bring the fest screening experience to audiences in their homes. Source: https://deadline.com/2020/04/ask-no-questions-virtual-reality-film-festival-screening-1202911101/

Eric Pedicelli – Best Documentary Editing Nominee

Congratulations to our editor Eric Pedicelli of Chop Shop Media on his Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Black Code! #CdnScreenAwards Black Code is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nicholas de Pencier and released in 2016.[1] Based on Ronald Deibert‘s book Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet, the film explores the ways in which contemporary technology has facilitated an increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructure.[2] The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.[3] The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary (Eric Pedicelli) at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.[4] Source: https://etcanada.com/news/196011/2017-canadian-screen-awards-nominees-revealed/