PETER CAMPBELL

Peter has been making social-issue documentaries for three decades.  He remembers getting kicked out of high school in Sudbury for writing a letter to the International Nickel Company of Canada challenging them for turning the environment into a toxic wasteland.

His career has taken him around the world: stories of gender equality in Africa (Speaking Out: Women of Uganda); children’s rights in Canada (Recognizing the Person); the fight against the international trade in weapons (The Art of Peacemaking) shot in Korea, the US, Ireland and Germany;  land rights in the Philippines (Fuga Island); stories from the survivors of the Indian Residential School System (Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle);  and most recently, several films about water and survival in Kenya. 

Peter sees himself as only a witness:  privileged to have some skills and the technology to bring stories out into the world.

For the past fifteen years he and his partners have been operating Gumboot Productions Inc. in Victoria out of their studio in China Town.