Based upon the photos from the Japanese-Canadian Centennial Project, this film is a deeply felt personal statement about the cultural heritage of Canada's Japanese community and the problems that it has encountered in Canadian society. It effectively brings a difficult issue into focus for students as well as for the general public.
This episode takes Storytellers in motion into its third season - The Next Wave, and it plunges us into the heart of downtown Toronto for the the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is a Canadian festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media.
This work asks the viewer to re-examine the right of the police to harass adults because of their sexual preferences. A careful, precise film which raises the question in a reserved and understated style.
Profile of Haida artists Geoff Green, Tony Green and Eric Olson.
This documentary portrays the experience of Canadians and Chinese collaborating in participatory research to enhance community development in Lijiang County, Yunnan, China.
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".
This touching documentary is an intimate portrait of a priest who has devoted six decades of his life to God. Along the way, he offers frank insight into the monastic life, as well as faith, art and the relationship between the two.
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to the garden.
IN THE MONUMENT explores the evolution of Holocaust commemoration and monument building in the last 70 years. Presenting six shortlisted finalists for the design competition to build the Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, the film examines the roles of Holocaust commemoration in the 21st century and of public art in preserving history for the future.
The Indigenous Voice introduces the concept and the importance of the indigenous voice as a necessary element of telling stories with accuracy and dignity and sets the stage for the profiles and tributes that follow in Storytellers in motion, Series One.
This final episode of Series two of Storytellers in motion further examines the Indigenous voice. Each of the talented storytellers profiled in the second series reflect on their perceptions of the Indigenous voice in film and television.
In this final installment of our Storytellers series we dive head first into the views of the Next Wave of indigenous storytelling.
Inside Boystown is an intimate portrait of the lives of six male prostitutes who work the streets in Vancouver's chic Yaletown district.
Inside Out reveals the beauty of nature, and the calming effect it has on people engulfed by it. Lulu Keating combines footage of the wilderness with an inspirational song in this short live action.
This film captures the hopelessly frenetic quality of modern life, as characters move in a manic and surreal fashion from one inevitable situation to the next.
Based on a historical event recounted by the Ojibway author, George Copway in 1851, Intemperance takes a satirical look at the introduction of "fire-water" to a village on Lake Superior in the early days of colonialism. The film is fiction with narration taken directly from Copway's writing and reveals a tale as morally complex today as it was over a hundred years ago.
Interdependence explains that, concerned or not, everyone is affected—through trading relationships and other factors of interdependence such as health, the environment, economics and global security.
A whirling passage through architectural space, into the home of a man who finds he is what he eats.
In this episode of Storytellers in motion, reporter Duncan McCue is profiled.
This episode of Ghost Towns of Canada explores Ireland's Eye, Newfoundland. Once an outport along the eastern sea board of Canada, Ireland's Eye could not survive the shifts accompanied Newfoundland's entry into Confederation and was emptied during the 1960s.
This episode of Ohanashi: The Story of Our Elders profiles Irene Tsuyuki.
It Will Not Last the Night profiles Canadian theatre actor, director and artistic director Larry Lillo.
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