On Vancouver Island, a group called the Amazing Grays host an annual gathering to celebrate aging. This video presents six themes on the aging process: the force of gravity, menopause, cronehood, role models, life passages, and feminine spirituality.
Three seniors in this short comedic drama bring a whole new context to a popular phrase.
Michelle is struggling to manage family and rejoin the workforce, all while dealing with her mother's advancing dementia.
Darlene has made a momentous decision about her lengthy illness. Just as she and a very unusual in-home service converge, a frantic call from her strong-willed daughter threatens to derail her plans.
Hattie's Heist is a transformational rags to riches comedy that makes a comment on the widespread plight of impoverished seniors and the dwindling pensions facing retiring boomers. It's best perceived as a caper film. It is not a story to encourage oldsters to rob banks, but an inspirational tale to encourage them to fulfill their dreams before it is too late.
This short drama follows an elderly woman who feels the need to strike out on her own. Little does she expect that she will be the one who is struck by her controlling husband.
Filmmaker Sylvie Peltier mixes reality and the fantastic in this poignant portrait of her grandmother. Her fusion of old photographs together with a newly created underwater dream sequence eloquently tells the story of her grandmother's dramatic love life.
Portrait of Elizabeth Gale, an 81-year-old furniture maker. While raising a family in an isolated Newfoundland outport, she began making the furniture she needed. With just a few tools: an axe, pocket knife and saw, she made washstands, bureaus, couches, barrel chars, picture frames and other items.
Life before puberty is spent waiting for womanhood. Life after menopause is supposedly fraught with insanity and brittle bones. This song begs to differ. This whimsical number features the work of animator Gail Noonan and the musical group She-B-She.
This documentary follows "The Retreads" the first women's basketball team over the age of 65, as they train for the World Masters Games.
Family love triumphs over Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis as a spunky Irish immigrant, "new to Alzheimer's" joins forces with her daughter, who is living with MS, to make a cup of tea.
Former university president Dr. Margaret Fulton developed administrative structures as an alternative to top-down hierarchical systems of management. A Round Peg is both a celebration of her success and a feast of ideas for change.
Art is an expression of our humanity, and artists give expression to the time and place in which they live. In SILENT NO MORE, Pentz shapes clay into life-size female sculptures, scoring, marking and scarring them to create tactile surfaces that reflect the experiences of women whose lives have been restrained by culture, religion, illiteracy and fear.
Gold Award, 2016 Eureka Springs Human Rights Art & Film Festival (Arkansas)
Tending Toward Silence weaves a story of three different moments: time in the hospital, a summer spent collecting rocks and another reality, both mysterious and sustaining.