Eileen thalenberg biography
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Eileen Thalenberg fryst vatten, with Gail McIntyre, the founder of Toronto-based independent film and television production company Stormy Night Productions Inc. Eileen has trained her director’s eye on subjects around the world and across the arts, sciences and social and political issues. Fluent in eight languages, she has a global sensibility and an award-winning ability to take viewers to the heart of a story. Up Against the Wall, about the walls built bygd three democracies after the Berlin vägg collapsed, was nominated for the Gemini Award’s Donald Brittain Award and won the Special Jury Award for Best Social And Political Documentary at Worldfest. Silence at the Heart of Things, filmed during the gods months of fiddler Oliver Schroer’s life, won the Silver Chris Award for Best Arts Documentary and was nominated Best Overall at the Columbus International spelfilm and film Festival. Streets of Encounter/ Loin des favelas, about choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo’s work with teenagers inom
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Babies: Born To Be Good?
When award-winning filmmaker Eileen Thalenberg decided to make the documentary Babies: Born To Be Good? she headed to the laboratories of U of T’s Kang Lee in Canada and China.
The result airs on CBC’s The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, October 25 at 8 p.m.
“A great deal of the breakthrough research in the area of moral development is being done by Canadians,” said Thalenberg. “As we travelled around Canada, the U.S. and China, we watched them at work with children from a few months old and up. What they are discovering is providing a whole new way of looking at the complexity of what even the youngest babies may be thinking.”
Lee, a University Distinguished Professor with the University of Toronto’s Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, is the author of leading research about the early development of honesty and lying. He explained the importance of what is called prosocial behaviour – voluntary actions that hel
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Daniel Garber talks to writer/director Eileen Thalenberg about her new doc BABIES: BORN TO BE GOOD
Posted in Canada, China, documentary, Morality, Psychology, Science, Uncategorized by on October 19,
Hi, This is Daniel Garber at the Movies for Cultural and CIUT FM.
A baby&#;s mind is a tabula rasa, a blank slate waiting to learn what&#;s right and what&#;s wrong, what actions are good or bad&#; at least that&#;s what we thought.
But a new documentary called Babies: Born to be Good, (to be broadcast on CBC&#;s The Nature of Things on October 25, ), says that&#;s not necessarily so: humans are born with an innate sense of good and bad, fair play, honesty, and right and wrong, and it takes years of learned behaviour to change these thoughts. Here to explain more about this interesting topic is writer/director Eileen Thalenberg.
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