{"id":12574,"date":"2009-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2009\/05\/08\/hot-docs-showcases-york-student%e2%80%99s-work\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:58:47","slug":"hot-docs-showcases-york-students-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2009\/05\/08\/hot-docs-showcases-york-students-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs showcases York student\u2019s work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within moments of meeting his great aunt, York film student Wayne Robinson<\/strong> abandoned plans to make a documentary on former meth addicts, wrote the Toronto Star<\/em> May 7. “She totally intrigued me,” says Robinson, who arrived at her apartment in downtown Vancouver on a late April evening in 2007. He had met her before, but had never spent much time with the tiny, frail woman. <\/p>\n

Auntie Bess, his grandmother’s sister, was in her mid-80s, a caretaker for an apartment building. She always kept a large butcher knife in her skirt pocket. “She showed me the knife and told me stories about how she has single-handedly thwarted robberies in the building,” says Robinson, 18, a film production student in the Faculty of Fine Arts, who comes from Langley, BC.<\/p>\n

He knew most of the accounts were untrue but she had such a fascinating way of telling stories, he decided to make the documentary about her. He named it The Caretaker<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Two years later, the 10-minute documentary, co-directed by friend Nathan Deschamps, is being screened at the Hot Docs festival’s Doc It! youth showcase, which features films by 14- to 18-year-olds. Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary film festival, runs to May 10 in Toronto. This year it is showing 171 titles from 39 countries. <\/p>\n

Bartering for business<\/strong><\/p>\n

It may be challenging for small business owners to establish “a fair value for a barter,” says Eileen Fischer<\/strong>, a marketing professor who holds the entrepreneurship and family enterprise chair at York’s Schulich School of Business, wrote the Toronto Star<\/em> May 7 in a story about a web site devoted to pros business-to-business bartering. For small businesses, “the risks are that you aren’t getting a good deal or that you are putting too much time into making sure you do.” <\/p>\n

Grandmother went back to school for two York degrees <\/strong><\/p>\n

York grad Miriam Wynn<\/strong> (BA ’80, BA Spec. Hons. ’84), whose life journey is now complete, passed away on April 28, 2009 at the Muskoka Landing Care Centre in Huntsville, Ontario in her 82nd year, wrote simcoe.com May 6. <\/p>\n

Following high school in Toronto, Miriam began her training as a nurse at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, graduating as a registered nurse in 1949. In addition to being a loving wife, mother and grandmother, she found the time and energy to resume her own love of learning by way of earning two BA degrees from York University; one in 1980 in humanities and the other in 1984 in classical studies (Greek, philosophy and theology).<\/p>\n

North Bay shot putter sought expert advice at York <\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Joseph-Scollard Hall Bears thrower Allison Loyst spent time last summer working with Richard Parkinson, <\/strong>assistant track & field coach at York and some York varsity athletes, picking up pointers about throwing techniques, wrote the North Bay<\/em> Nugget<\/em> May 7. Loyst said Parkinson noticed her at a York Invitational meet last season and Loyst sought out some advice, which helped at last year’s Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association championship. <\/p>\n

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