The Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF) is a chance for workers to showcase their struggles, lives, successes and working conditions. Activists have an easier time than ever accessing cameras and editing software that allows them to tell their own stories but finding a place to show these narratives is becoming increasingly difficult. CLiFF doesn't just show films, but it also encourages workers to make their own.

From unionized workers abroad to un-unionized workers in Canada, CLiFF screens the stories of youth activists, trade union members, educators, artists, allies and other workers. The festival is hosted in 50 communities across Canada.

The Reel Art Film Festival presents the feature documentary Portrait of Resistance: The Art and Activism of Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge by director Roz Owen and editor Jim Miller.

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge live and work in Toronto. They have collaborated with various trade union and community organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past 30 years. Their work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both the trade union movement and art galleries and museums. Recently their work has been included in exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery , Cork, Ireland, a survey exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, and the Noorderlicht Photofestival , Groningen, Holland.

Belleville's first international documentary film festival, DownTown DocFest, will launch a day and half of films with a gala evening featuring the potent film “Music From the Big House” followed by a concert with blues singer and star of the film, Rita Chiarelli.

DocFest will feature original international, national and community films by highly acclaimed film makers and directors, More than 25 films will be screened starting on Friday afternoon at The Core Centre for the Arts and continuing at noon on Saturday the 3rd at both The Core Centre and the Belleville Public Library.

Portrait of Resistance, directed by Roz Owen and produced and edited by Jim Miller, is an intimate documentary on Toronto artists Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge which premiered at the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto on Oct. 13.

The film explores the life and work of the two artists whose marriage and artistic collaboration has lasted four decades. They are a quintessential Toronto love story: minimalist sculptors who met in 1960s Yorkville, competed for gallery space and grants, and crafted a career in activist art.

Fresh from two sold-out screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, <!--break-->SURVIVING PROGRESS is the film inspired by Ronald Wright's bestseller and CBC Massey Lectures, "A Short History of Progress”. 

French filmmaker Vanessa Rousselot took a very nervy path to gain a fresh insight into the life of Palestinians in the occupied territories. The result is the 2010 documentary, (No) Laughing Matter, which is being shown on Oct. 6 and is one of the highlights at this year's Toronto Palestine Film Festival, which starts Friday. 

With a TV camera, she approached people, young and old, male and female, in shops, stores, the classroom and on the street across the West Bank, Haifa in Israel and in Gaza (via Skype) to ask if each of whom could provide a joke.