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In 1975 Montreal, 16-year old high school student Douglas Brown became fascinated with film-making and produced three short films. The technology of the mid-1970's was crude compared to today. The films were shot on Kodak Super 8mm color motion picture film with no sound. Sound was recorded in studio on reel-to-reel tape and was only added to the films when they were converted to digital media in 2007/2008. Douglas is currently working on producing several new independent short films.

"Eye of a Needle" is a film examining the wealth of suburban Montreal from the perspective of a poor hobo, who jumps off a freight train in the hopes of finding warm shelter or food. Instead, the hobo only sees a world where he neither belongs or is welcome. As he jumps back on a train to travel somewhere else, we are presented with the message that just because we have material things, does not mean we are better than those that do not - in fact the reverse may be true.