Brett Gaylor
Brett Gaylor grew up with 800 other people on Galiano Island, BC. His neighbor started a film school called the Gulf Islands Film and Television School, and he formed their computer animation department at 18 years old. After a series of odd jobs in Vancouver he decided to attend the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, where he met Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin, who had 300 hours of Roach to sort through in the edit suite. He was given the responsibility of buying a used PC, and given a desk near the bathroom in the 200 square foot office. He became the assistant editor on what would become SPIT: Squeegee Punks In Traffic, and the editor and Associate Producer on Roach's subsequent film, RoachTrip. Somewhere around this time Daniel asked him to help produce Homelessnation.org, and he began writing grants for an undefined film about copyright. Meanwhile, he co-directed and edited Inuuvunga: I am Inuk, I am Alive, and pitched in on the editing of Chairman George. He finally got around to making the undefined film about Copyright, which became Rip! A Remix Manifesto. The film won the Audience Choice Award at the prestigious International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) which launched it on a journey to more than 50 film festivals, broadcast in more than 15 countries, and a theatrical release in Canada, US, Australia and Poland. As the world's first Open Source Documentary, the project was a catalyst for OpenSourceCinema.org, a social network to help documentary filmmakers create collaborative films. Brett is the Head of New Media at EyeSteelFilm.
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