How Jaws Explains The World (TEDx Talk)

This talk will highlight the lasting significance of the film Jaws as told through my findings while interviewing over 40 New Brunswickers for my documentary, Project Power, in regards to their motivation to become involved in the campaign against the sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec.

Jon Mann is a graduate of Acadia University (POLS, 2011) and the New York Film Academy (Screenwriting, 2013). In 2012, he wrote the documentary Drink ‘Em Dry which premiered at Harvard Law School. After Harvard, the film is now in universities and colleges in North and South America, Europe, and Australia. Drink ‘Em Dry was nominated for Best Canadian Documentary at the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (2012). In 2014, Jon completed his first feature-length documentary, Project Power, which follows the social movement against the sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec in 2010. In 2015 Jon co-wrote and directed the short-film Rearview which racked up wins and nominations at film festivals world-wide. In 2017, Jon and production partner Rob Ramsay's project Wolfville won the 2018 National Screen Institute's Totally Television program. Filming for the short film's Cahoots & Missy, written and directed by Jon, completed Fall 2017. In 2018, Jon was the Production Coordinator for TIFF Pitch This! short film winner Wildfire.

By Jon Mann

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