Velcrow Ripper

Velcrow Ripper is one of those precious few filmmakers who doesn’t take himself seriously but in fact is a dedicated social activist and creative artist. He moves easily from documentary to new narrative drama, to multimedia, to projects he categorizes as “absurd.” Velcrow is best known for the feature documentary “Bones of the Forest” which he co-directed with Heather Frise and which won the Genie Award for Canada’s top documentary in 1996. He is a “hands-on” video/filmmaker and multimedia …