Another day... another dragon... another dance... About Face fathoms the emotional undercurrent of the daily work routine. Traditional hand drawn animation, scratch on film, line drawings and water colour renderings scanned into the computer deliver a dynamic and provocative message about procrastination.
A documentary film investigating the upside and the downside of increasing corporate influence in public education.
This documentary provides new insight into the illness of depression and highlights the importance of early detection.
Do You Really Want to Know? is a documentary about the complex emotional, ethical and psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing.
Do You Really Want to Know? is a documentary about the complex emotional, ethical and psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing.
Animation meets performance as a woman engaged in an argument about her state of mind with a group of Raggedy Ann dolls.
Embracing Bob's Killer is a documentary exploring the relationship between a widow and the man who killed her husband.
This documentary, narrated by Maliseet elder Maggie Paul, is a collaboration between Christine McLean and the St. Mary's First Nation in Fredericton, New Brunswick. It provides a rare glimpse into the lives of three Maliseet teenagers on St. Mary's First Nation, one of the few urban reserves in Canada.
Different voices from diverse cultural backgrounds share life stories about paths travelled while navigating experiences of mental illness and comment on the need for a more holistic system of treatment.
This documentary, directed by Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, profiles young people whose parents and grandparents attended government-initiated, church-run, Indian Residential Schools.
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.
Kids today are the most overprotected, overindulged, and overscheduled in history. Is all this attention giving the next generation a competitlve edge, or creating new problems that will last a lifetime?
K-9 Corrections is a story about women inmates and the dogs that are changing their lives behind prison walls. This story provides an intimate look at the lives of incarcerated women and their relationships with the dogs they care for while in prison.
In this personal and endearing film, a prolific and brilliant animator reveals his battles with bipolar disorder to lay the path for a new understanding of this condition. His son, a clinical psychologist, adds his own comments, from the perspective of a family member.
With an approach that is both poetic and personal, this documentary portrays the variety of emotions experienced by women diagnosed with breast cancer as they attempt to cope with their new reality and what awaits them in the future.
Survivors from the opposite sides of the Second World War revisit the site of a pitched battle fought in September 1944 at Peleliu, east of the Philippines and north of New Guinea.
This documentary follows ex-pat American Andy Stringfellow, who left behind the rich African-American culture of the rural south where he was raised, to move to Canada. Thirty years later, the only black man in a white town, he offers a frank, complex view into the experience of being an outsider.
Pinch is the story of a young woman and the ferociously adorable pet monster who lives on her arm. Using quirky humour and horror, this nervous little animation explores the emotional turmoil of a rather vicious cycle.
A candid and often humorous monologue creates an off-beat portrait of a young woman who speaks about the evolution of her lesbian identity, homophobia, her first relationship and grief.
Friends and family recall the life and loss of Maple Batalia, a 19-year-old Health Sciences student at Simon Fraser University. She was loved by all and had a brilliant future ahead of her before she was murdered outside the campus by her former boyfriend.
Students were told to keep their sexual relationship with their teacher a secret...now almost two decades later, these women are ready to expose the lessons they learned in school.
In 2004, a small group of elementary students were identified as gifted, and the filmmakers documented their search for the right high school. Ten years later, those filmmakers went back to find them and ask ... "Are they still gifted?"
In this collaboration between Marilyn Simon Ingram (IRS survivor and advocate), Barb Martin and Outreach Productions, Indian Residential School survivors in Atlantic Canada reflect on their experiences with the Shubenacadie Residential School in central Nova Scotia.
When an only child dies mysteriously abroad, his parents leave Beijing to find out why. Answers don't come easily in a 10-year journey that exposes flawed immigration policies, a systemic stigma of mental illness, and a Kafkaesque state bureaucracy at the heart of global migration.