Fear
Gender Blender: Dialogues of Hope
In this youth-driven documentary, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students at a high school in the town of Hope, British Columbia explore issues they face at their high school. The film project created a dialogue among students and the community as a step toward eliminating bullying.
i see the fear
In 2004, visual artists joe average & jamie griffiths entered into a creative therapeutic photography process, to allow joe to explore his experience of living and coping with Lipoatrophy caused by antiretroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS.
In the Company of Fear
Colombia is notorious for its politics of fear. In the Company of Fear explores the power of non-violent resistance to oppose state terror, through the work of "Protective Accompaniment".
The Light of Family Burnam
In this short drama, a 10-year-old boy facing a terminal illness works to help his father move beyond grief and loss.
Mary, Mary: My Last Act of Love in the World
Mary was an artist and teacher who lived for 12 years with a condition doctors called “palliative.” She recorded the process to share what she learned about the difference between the agony of death and the art of dying--a gift to those who live with terminal illness and loved ones who remain.
Return to Reichenbach
Two women from opposite sides of Hitler's Third Reich meet in Toronto, years after the Second World War––one, a Jewish girl orphaned by the regime, the other possibly the Nazi guard who protected her.
Slingshot
Two lone figures meet in a desolate landscape. One, an Afghan boy, is there to bury his family, killed in a massacre. The other, a soldier, wounded physically and spiritually from too much killing, who struggles with his basest instincts to move toward healing.
Umbra
A young inventor who is deathly afraid of the dark misses the finale late-night bus. Left behind on the edge of the forest, he desperately tries to keep the darkness at bay...but everything goes wrong.
