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Co-founder
of Productions Multi-Monde. She is currently directing Musiques
Rebelles, a collection of documentary films about activist musicians
around the world. Rebel Music Quebec was released in 2002 and Rebel
Music Americas (co-directed with Malcolm Guy) premiered in November
2004 at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal.
She
has directed a trilogy of films on women and labour migration including
Brown Women Blond Babies (1991), When Strangers Reunite (1999) and
Modern Heroes Modern Slaves (1997), winner of the Canadian Association
of Journalists award for Best Investigative Documentary. During
over a dozen years as a director, Boti has approached her films
through active involvement in the lives and issues
of concern to the communities she is filming, allowing her to develop
an intimacy that comes across in her films.
 
Montreal-based
director/producer of documentaries and fiction films and is President
of Productions Multi-Monde, a production house which he founded
in 1987 with filmmaker Marie Boti. As director, he recently completed
two feature-length documentaries, Rebel Music Americas (Musiques
Rebelles Americas) (co-directed with Marie Boti), and Turbulent
Waters (Navires de la honte) (co-directed with Michelle Smith).
His
other works include Pressure Point: inside the Montreal Blockade
(Best documentary, L'Association québecoise des critiques
de cinéma 1999) and the documentary feature Moving the Mountain
(La montagne d'or) as director and Modern Heroes Modern Slaves (Best
documentary, Canadian Association of Journalists 1997), Cherry Fruitbread
(Audience prize, Best Canadian short film, Festival des films du
monde 2003) and the feature film L'Oreille d'un sourd as producer. Malcolm is an anti-imperialist and immigrant rights activist. He is currently working on a documentary about non-status Algerians in Canada, and is preparing the next Rebel Musics film - on Africa. Malcolm is also active in the independent film community and sits on a number of Boards of directors.
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