In the Media



CitizenShift
Check out the In the Same Boat? dossier on the NFB's Citizenshift site for video clips from the film, background information on First Nation and fishing struggles on the east coast, and more.



Blood work
By Carsten Knox in The Coast, Nov 15th, 2007

Martha Stiegman's two-part documentary In The Same Boat? examines the complex struggles facing Nova Scotian and First Nations traditional fishing communities. Carsten Knox is reeled in.

"People make a lot of parallels between the stories of privatizing of public resources, downsizing of government services and off-loading of responsibilities to community...we're all in that boat. This is the same agenda that's hitting health care, education. People, even if they're not fishing, they see the themes resonating in their own lives." That's Martha Stiegman, talking about audiences' reactions to her pair of documentaries, In The Same Boat?, about the traditions and struggles in small-scale, rural Nova Scotia fishing.

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Fishing for Answers: An Interview with Video Activist Martha Stiegman
By Mél Hogan in Art Threat, June 6, 2007

Martha Stiegman’s two short documentaries are currently featured on the National Film Booard's CitizenShift website United We Fish. Her works tackles the fisheries in Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy and in Bear River First Nation. As a videomaker, Stiegman's work connects community and activism.

Martha is presently working on her PhD at Concordia University where we met to talk about her amazing projects.

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