Michelle Mason

An award-winning documentary director and peace activist.

<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="ArialMT"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial-BoldMT"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></font></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="ArialMT"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial-BoldMT"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4D4D4D">Michelle Mason</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4D4D4D">&nbsp;is an independent filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada who makes award-winning documentaries about transcending war: <i>The Friendship Village </i>(2002), <i>Breaking Ranks, </i>(2006) and now <i>A Song for Carlos, </i>which she begins filming this summer<i>. </i>She is also head of the Documentary Program at <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://www.capilanou.ca">Capilano University</a>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#4D4D4D">Michelle started her career in international journalism with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in London and Washington, D.C., and went on to freelance in Germany where she met her first documentary subject George Mizo. She returned home to Vancouver to found Cypress Park Productions and make her first film,&nbsp;<i>The Friendship Village </i>(2002),<i> </i>a tragic and inspiring documentary about an American veteran's efforts to build a reconciliation project with the Vietnamese General who killed his entire platoon (<a target="_blank" title="" href="http://www.cypress-park.ca">www.cypress-park.ca</a> &amp; <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://www.vietnamfriendship.org">www.vietnamfriendship.org</a>). Michelle next wrote and directed <i>Breaking Ranks, </i>(2006)<i> </i>the story of four American military deserters seeking sanctuary in Canada from the Iraq War for reasons of conscience (<a target="_blank" title="" href="http://www.breakingranksthefilm.ca">www.breakingranksthefilm.ca</a> &amp; <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://www.resisters.ca">www.resisters.ca</a>). Currently she is enjoying motherhood, trying to learn Spanish, and preparing for her journey...</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </font></font><p></p> <!--EndFragment-->

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