Sean Farnel Quotations

We're extremely efficient and we do tremendous things in that shop. We have phenomenal through-put. The output would make it look like it's four or five times its size.

Our processes don't allow us to be as fast as some of our competitors, but our processes allow us to produce the best quality product.

The ratios of saw mills in Quebec versus Ontario is significantly higher. It's a very resource-rich province.

When mining is down, we've seen the cycles that forestry has a tendency to be stable. It's rare that both are down. So we try to hedge our bets to be two companies in one by servicing those two diverse markets.

Documentary has become a kind of new space in the culture. A lot of the films are about social concerns, and in a way, are a new form of media. . . . Making a documentary has become sort of trendy, a little like what writing children's books was a few years ago. But what I've noticed is, once documentary filmmakers get locked in, they really get locked in. They may have started off thinking they're going to do something relatively quick and casual, and then it takes them over.

Documentary filmmakers are an itinerant group of people, and at the core of their mission is going out and bringing back stories that aren't been told in the mainstream media.

An issue-oriented work with tremendous personality and emotion, 'The Railroad All-Stars' is the perfect film to carry the documentary flag into the festival.

That process has always been there, but we're using the tools to actually capture the data to a computer.