Podcast
Image: Nomad Films and the CBC. Used with permission.
'Company Town' -- film explores historic 2019 win for workers in Oshawa
David Peck | Filmmaker Peter Findlay and Unifor president Jerry Dias talk about the film "Company Town" and how union and workers got General Motors to back down on the Oshawa plant closure in 2019.
Columnists
Image: The Water Walker animation/Christi Belcourt art
Indigenous activist Autumn Peltier features in stunning short documentary film 'The Water Walker'
June Chua | "Water truly has no flag and it has no borders. We must join forces."
Podcast
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Film 'Dope is Death' tells story of '70s New York detox centre with an anti-racist approach towards addiction
David Peck | Mia Donovan discusses her film "Dope is Death" about an acupuncture detox clinic set up in the 1970s which addressed drug addiction within a framework of race and class struggle.
Podcast
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New film looks at mothers, grief and the stuff of life
David Peck | Judith Helfand on her new film "Love and Stuff," mothers, grief, defiance and resilience, living well and why we all need to do a stuff review.
Columnists
Tamara Mariam Dawit. Image: Screenshot from Finding Sally
'Finding Sally': A family mystery wrapped in an enigma
June Chua | "Finding Sally," a documentary film directed by Tamara Mariam Dawit, takes viewers on a journey through Ethiopia's violent history.
Blog
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'Sovereign Soil' feeds body and soul
Doreen Nicoll | "Sovereign Soil" looks at life and death, seasonal cycles, notions of time and how people are living in relative equilibrium with nature.
Columnists
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Oscar-nominated 'St. Louis Superman' sears with powerful, intimate scenes
June Chua | Documentary film 'St. Louis Superman' follows the journey of activist and former Missouri state senate representative Bruce Franks Jr.
Podcast
Clean Hands, Family Life and Central America
'Clean Hands' -- a film about family life and Central America
Face2Face | Michael Dominic talks about the ethics of cinéma vérité filmmaking, different versions of truth, poverty and white western development, empathy, curiosity and why the little things matter.
Columnists
Film still courtesy of Anote's Ark
Anote's Ark: A documentary of biblical scope tackling climate change
June Chua | The remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati is drowning. A new documentary captures the ravages of extreme storms and sea-level rise that threaten the tiny country.
Columnists
Film still of Stephen Jerome. Image courtesy of Wapikoni Mobile
My Father's Tools weaves story of ancestral Indigenous art
June Chua | My Father's Tools is a short documentary about an Indigenous craft that is dying out. Done in cinema vérité style, it begins with a man in the forest, searching for and then cutting down a tree.
Podcast
Manic director Kalina Bertin
Kalina Bertin on her new film Manic, survivor guilt, family secrets and mental health
Face2Face | Kalina Bertin and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Manic, which chronicle's Bertin's struggle to understand the legacy of mental illness in her family.
Columnists
Images courtesy of Forget Winnetou!
Film 'Forget Winnetou!' studies German idealization of Indigenous culture
June Chua | The film "Forget Winnetou!" uses the novels of Karl May, who published his first book about a character named Winnetou in 1870, to explore the German idealization of Indigenous peoples.