Canada / 2016 / BD / Colour / 45min
Cynthia H. PANDEV
Cowgirls were the roughest and toughest
groups of women in history; they were the first women to wear pants: Yeehaw!
Cowgirls Can Cut It Films creates visual
communications and promotional films for the internet that are engaging,
innovative and entertaining.
We are storytellers and trail blazers, who
value quality and excellence mixed with lots of old school fun and charm!
Cynthia Helen Pandev has worked in post production
as a professional editor for over 20 years. Her clients include Molson
Canadian, Volkswagen Passat, Uniglobe Travel, Melitta Coffee, Quaker Oats,
Turtles Chocolates, Tim Hortons, Kleenex, Kodak Film, BF Goodrich Tires,
Coppertone Sunscreen, the Ontario Lottery Corporation, the International
Olympic Committee, and the Ontario Government - to name a few.
Cynthia has edited numerous television
documentaries and films, which have aired on major networks including CBC
Newsworld, Discovery USA and the National Geographic Channel and she was one of
the first foreign editors to work in Bulgaria on a feature film co-production
between Nu Boyana Film Studios, Great Britain, and Canada.
Cynthia counts working with Emmy award
winning producer/director, Ann Petrie, as one of her career highlights. Ann and
Cynthia worked together to edit a provocative six-part series for CBC and
A&E ("Bly and Woodman: On Men and Women") hosted by the
opinionated and best-selling authors, Robert Bly and Marion Woodman.
Cynthia's cut of the feature doc,
"David Murray: “A Sculptor with Sound", was awarded a Gold plaque at
the Chicago International Film Festival. The film also screened and was
profiled at the JVC Jazz Festival in Toronto, Canada. Cynthia edited a
"Thelma & Louise" tribute montage, which was presented at Roy
Thomson Hall to a sold out crowd as part of the film’s 20th anniversary
celebration.
As a producer/videographer, Cynthia has
shot and edited promotional videos for TIFF, The Next Program, CAA/Teens LearnToDrive.com
and LabourStart.
Pay Your Interns! is Cynthia’s long format
directorial debut. She also produced, shot and edited the documentary which she
hopes will inspire and encourage young workers to speak out against free labour
in the form of unpaid internships.
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Synopsis
Money is not the root of all evil Illegal
Unpaid Internships are!
In Canada, each year approximately 300,000
individuals (mostly female) take on unpaid work in the form of internships, but
the number is likely much higher due to our government's lack of interest in
tracking illegal unpaid internships, or even recognizing that they exist.
Pay Your Interns! is a brutally honest,
unapologetic critique of the shady practice of Canadian employers turning a
blind eye to the Employment Standards Act by “hiring” interns, who are expected
to perform the work of a “paid” employee, for free!
What is an intern? What is the difference
between a legal/illegal internship? Is a volunteer an intern? Is an intern an
unpaid employee? What is our government doing to protect young professionals
from unscrupulous employers looking for free labour? What can an intern do to
protect their workplace rights? Pay Your Interns! answers these questions &
many more.
The film delivers information and
communicates ideas in a visually cheeky way by juxtaposing archival footage
against interviews with advocates, brave unpaid interns, rally protesters, and
people on the street, who offer their take on volunteerism, internships and
paid employment.
Pay your interns! is not just informative
and provocative, it's fun, too! And, the film's message is simple and clear -
you guessed it - Pay Your Interns!
