RIP: ‘Manufacturing Consent’ Director Peter Wintonick (1953–2013)

Canadian documentarian Peter Wintonick passed away this morning. The director of such features as Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky in the Media (with Mark Achbar) and Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment was just recently diagnosed as having a rare form of liver cancer called Cholangio Carcinoma, and he was making a new doc in response to that news tit…