Directors: Bruce McDonald
Producers: David Brady, Jan Haust
Editors: Eamonn O’Connor, Duff Smith
Supervising Editor: Eamonn O’Connor

To watch the three part series go to: www.bravo.ca

Here are some reviews:

Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories is a wonderful, intoxicating series that documents the street’s place in Canadian music history from the 1950s to the 1970s. It is gloriously packed with stories, vignettes, photographs and footage of wild times and rock’n’roll madness in the back rooms and on the stages of bars and nightclubs on the street.

Read the rest of John Doyle’s review in the The Globe and Mail here.

Directed by Canada’s own music-aficionado filmmaker himself, Bruce McDonald, this series is a must-see for anyone interested in Toronto history… It’s definitely three nights worth of tube time.

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It might be the best documentary about a musical scene made in this country, and certainly sets the bar high for anyone who wants to tell any of the many musical stories dying to be documented in this country.

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The absence of any previous documentation of Toronto’s musical culture Haust blames on the city’s crippling inferiority complex. “Our history was lost in the cultural crossfire between Britain and America. We never measured up … or thought we didn’t. Even when Bob Dylan chose Robbie Robertson and Levon and the Hawks as his first electric backup band — as proud a moment in rock history as we could ever claim as our own — Toronto’s own press dismissed them as ‘third-rate’ and unworthy of such glory.”

Click to read the rest of Greg Quill’s review in the Toronto Star

In his three-part documentary Yonge Street — Toronto Rock & Roll Stories, director Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo, This Movie Is Broken) uncovers an era when, as executive producer Jan Haust puts it, “The truth [was] stranger than the publicity.”

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Do not dismiss the new three-part documentary Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories — which airs across Canada on Bravo! on three consecutive nights, beginning Monday — merely because it has the audacity to have the word “Toronto” in its title.

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Director: Eamonn O’Connor
Produced by Refraction Films

Winner - Best Canadian Doc at the Edmonton International Film Festival

Director: Bruce McDonald
Producers: Erin Faith Young, Jennifer St. John
Editor: Eamonn O’Connor
Cinematographer: Steve Cosens
Staring: Rita Chiarelli

Editor, Post Production Supervisor: Eamonn O’Connor

Director: Joe Finkelman
Editor: Eamonn O’Connor

Director / Producer: Eamonn O’Connor
Produced by Refraction Films

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Director: Velcrow Ripper
Producers: Cher Hawrysh, Gerry Flahive
Executive Producers : Mark Achbar, Betsy Carson, Silva Basmajian
Cinematographer: Velcrow Ripper
Trailer Editor: Eamonn O’Connor

Winner - Special Jury Prize Vancouver International Film Festival
Winner - NFB Audience Award Vancouver International Film Festival
Official Selection International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Official Selection: Hot Docs 2009

From the Director of Scared Sacred & The Producer of The Corporation

“Fierce Light” is a feature documentary that captures the exciting movement of Spiritual Activism that is exploding around the planet, and the powerful personalities that are igniting it.

Fueled by the belief that “another world is possible,” the film portrays stories of what Martin Luther King called “Love in Action,” and Gandhi called “Soul Force”; what Ripper is calling “Fierce Light.” Acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred) takes an insightful look at change motivated by love, featuring interviews with spiritual activists Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond Tutu, Daryl Hannah, Julia Butterfly Hill, and more.

“A SPIRITUAL KALEIDOSCOPE OF HOPE AND JOY. UPLIFTING!” ~ Green Muze

“HUGELY ENGAGING AND VISUALLY DELIGHTFUL, MAGNIFICENT.” ~ Toronto Sun

“COULDN’T HAVE COME AT A BETTER TIME….AN INSPIRATION!” ~ The Montreal Gazette

“DRAMATIC, VIVID, STARTLING.” ~ The Vancouver Sun

“ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL.” ~ NewCityFilm, Chicago

“INTENSE AND INSPIRING.” ~ Examiner National

“RAW, HONEST AND COMPELLING.” ~ CJSF Radio

“COURAGEOUS, POTENT, AUTHENTIC!” ~ EnlightenNext Magazine

“A POETIC CALL TO HEARTFELT ACTION.” ~ Common Ground

“A TOUCHING PORTRAIT OF THE POWER OF LOVE.” ~ New Orleans Times-Picayune

“RIPPERS MOST ACCOMPLISHED PIECE.” ~ Playback

“A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN ITSELF!” ~ VIFF

Directors: Eamonn O’Connor and Michael Vanaselja
Producers: Eamonn O’Connor and Michael Vanaselja
Camera: Marc Peirce
Editor: Michael Vanaselja

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Director: Jessica Lott Thompson
Editor: Eamonn O’Connor
Camera: Chayse Irvin

Directed by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick
Trailer Edited by Eamonn O’Connor

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, the film highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media. A mammoth two-part project, MANUFACTURING CONSENT is nonetheless light on its feet, favoring a style that encourages viewers to question its own workings, as Chomsky himself encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from the “web of deceit” by undertaking a course of “intellectual self-defense.” Appearing in the film are major journalists and critics, including Bill Moyers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Tom Wolfe, Peter Jennings, Jeff Greenfield, philosopher Michel Foucault, White House reporter Sarah McClendon, New York Times editorial writer Karl E. Meyer and revisionist author Robert Faurisson.