By Violet S.Z. Maier and Nathan Crowley-Peters. Cover Photo Credit: Violet S.Z. Maier.
Everything Helps: An Expository Documentary, released on November 1st, 2026 is the debut documentary produced by The Brunswickan. It explores the 2024/2025 student demonstrations on Canadian campuses for Palestinian Solidarity with a particular lens on the University of New Brunswick; how university administrations responded; and how those responses have impacted the university communities. The entire creation process took over two months.
Everything Helps combines interviews with individuals directly involved in the events, and footage taken during the investigative process.
Featuring Interviews from:
Nathan Kalman-Lamb
Jeff Houlahan
Sarah Durham
Matthew Sears
Priyansh
David Slater
Notes from the Crew:
Nathan Crowley-Peters: “The two-month-long journey to create this project was an amazing experience. Not only did I have support from my close-knit production team (Violet Maier, Dawa Penjor, and Jill Rust), but I also had full support from the entire Brunswickan staff as a whole. I was very happy to be able to create this documentary to highlight an issue that I know many people are not aware about. I would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who supported me through this production, and to everyone who takes the time to watch it.”
Violet S.Z. Maier: “I am very grateful I got the opportunity to be the Director of Photography on this project. I’ve gained so much knowledge from the pre/post production process throughout this experience. We were in over our heads for a little bit there, but I am very proud of what we have created; it sheds light on systematic issues that are hardly discussed within our University and others. Thank you to everyone who supported me through this process, thank you to The Brunswickan, and special thanks to Patrick Maier (Gido), my OG movie buddy who always inspires me.”
Dawa Penjor: “Working on this documentary made me understand the difficulty in sharing stories, but also the importance of doing it anyway. What initially started out as a mini-documentary grew into a full blown project as we realized the story we were hearing went deeper and deeper, and deserved the time needed to be told.
“Nathan really deserves a Sony FX30 and Violet’s gonna be a big shot director—so watch out Greta Gerwig.”
Jill Rust: “I am honoured to have been a part of this process and I’m grateful for the team I got to do this with. Working on this has taught me so many valuable skills.”
Watch the documentary on the Brunswickan YouTube.
