Velcrow Ripper
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Velcrow Ripper is a Genie Award-winning filmmaker, writer, web artist, and sound designer. Ripper’s film work has taken two main paths: experimental/new narrative, and issue-oriented documentary. His writing has been primarily creative nonfiction, journalism, poetry and scripts. I’m Happy was his first feature film. The Genie Award-winning Bones of the Forest (co-directed with Heather Frise) was his second. He’s done the sound design on such classic Canadian feature documentaries as The Corporation and A Place Called Chiapas. His current project is a feature documentary film, website, and creative nonfiction novel based on his two-year journey to the Ground Zeroes of the world, in search of stories of creative survival. The project began as an award-winning website designed at The Banff Centre during the “Telling Tales” residency in 1995.