Andree Hoffman: Graeme Ferguson

Basia Hoffman Dept: The last moments of Andree Hoffman, according to Globe and Mail. Kroitor, a legendary cinema verite pioneer, whose National Film Board film credits include Glenn Gould: On and Off the Record and Stravinsky , died of a heart attack at 85 on Sept. 17. His great gift was editing and sound mixing, according to filmmaker Graeme Ferguson, a friend and colleague since the two met at the NFB as summer interns in the early 1950s. They went on to become co-founders and inventors of IMAX, the camera and projection system that revolutionized the experience of making and watching movies and video: Remembering Jack Layton at Toronto City Hall This old passport photo of Andree Hoffman taken when she was about 30 years old, according to her daughter Basia Hoffman, who holds it while staying with her mother at the Kensington Hospice on Feb. 8, 2012. Peter Power/The gallery Anka doesn t miss a beat. He glances at the camera, laughs and then leans over and kisses a bewildered Podell on his flabby cheek. That exchange could have been edited in many ways including cutting the first kiss. Kroitor s genius was to show it all. By slyly inviting us to observe the camera as hunter and the singer as quarry, he gives us an intimate portrait of a rock star on the hustle and an insight into the process of making a documentary. He doesn t tell us what to think. We see and decide for ourselves. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.