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CATALOGUE 2015–16

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Traceable Fractured Land Space Suite JEFF WALL: In Order to Make a Picture SILENT NO MORE: Louise Pentz, A Voice for Social Change The Pristine Coast

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TITLES BY SUBJECT AREA

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, FASHION, FINE ARTS, FRENCH

The 21st ChromosomeBihttoš (Rebel)Cry RockThe Dancing Cop!DOLLFACELe Dormeur du ValGibson WoodsIntemperanceJEFF WALL: In Order To Make a PictureThe Life and Work of Alex JanvierOur First VoicesPICTURE STARTSAVAGESILENT NO MORE: Louise Pentz, A Voice for Social ChangeSNARESuckerfishSUZY LAKE: Playing With TimeTraceableUulx - The Scratcher

CAREERS

One Week JobTraceable

EDUCATION, IMMIGRATION, HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL WORK

The 21st Chromosomeaftermeth: a family storyCaptured: From Footbinding to StilettosDancing With PainDissolve: a documentary about drug facilitated sexual assaultDo You Really Want to Know?Gender Blender: Dialogues of HopeGlimpses of LightGrowing Up Among StrangersHidden LegaciesMarianne MattersMary, Mary: My Last Act of Love in the WorldPatience and AbsurdityA Second SkinSurviving EugenicsUNDEFEATED: An Intimate Portrait of Parkinson’s Us & Them: Canadian Identity and Race RelationsWomen Building Peace

SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY, ETHICS, HISTORY, PUBLIC POLICY

Canada’s Best Kept Secret: The Natural World of R.D. LawrenceCanyon War: The Untold StoryChildren of RedressCry RockEco-Pirate: The Story of Paul WatsonEncirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares DemocracyFinding Our WayFractured LandGreening the Cube: 100 Mile HousingThe Hand of FranklinHow A People LiveIntemperanceMy Mother, The Nazi Midwife and MeNorth Boys: The Story of Jimmy and CharliePolicy Baby: The Journey of Rita/BevThe Power of the SpiritThe Pristine CoastSAMAQAN: Water StoriesSeeking the CurrentSpace Suite 1 & 2Stolen MemoriesSurviving EugenicsTraceable Women Building Peace

FIRST NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Bihttoš (Rebel) Canyon War: The Untold StoryCry RockThe Dancing Cop!The FastFinding Our WayFractured LandFreedom BabiesHidden LegaciesHow A People LiveIntemperanceThe Life and Work of Alex JanvierOur First VoicesNorth Boys: The Story of Jimmy and CharliePolicy Baby: The Journey of Rita/BevThe Power of the SpiritThe Pristine CoastSAMAQAN: Water StoriesSAVAGESNARESuckerfishUulx - The Scratcher


The 21st Chromosome23:00 • 2014 • $180Kirsten Johnson

How do you tell the story of someone in your family who doesn’t have a voice to say if they want that story told? Kirsten Johnson reflects lovingly on life with a sister who has Down Syndrome, Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Rather than film her, Kirsten created over a thousand drawings to illuminate what’s it’s like to live with someone whose personal reality you can only begin to fathom. Through a creative mix of animation, live action and performance seasoned with empathy, humour and wistfulness, the director explores a unique family relationship in the face of society’s prejudicial attitudes toward people who are different.

aftermeth: a family story51:00 • 2012 • CC • $200Eva Wunderman

aftermeth: a family story follows the roller coaster ride of one family as it battles with drug addiction and co-dependency. The family is one of three featured in the 2005 documentary Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear. At that time, Michelle, a registered nurse, and her three children Aaron, Kyler and Amber were all in transitional periods in their lives as they struggled to cope with the crystal meth addiction of Aaron, the eldest son. This follow-up documentary reveals a family unravelling. Seeing himself in Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear has spurred Aaron to comeclean, but now he’s the only one in the familywho is. His mother Michelle has lost her nursing license because of her own drug use;his sister Amber lives with a relative and isa frequent marijuana user; his youngerbrother Kyler has started using crystal meth.Kyler’s descent into meth use spurs theirmother Michelle to rally and gain control ofher own life to be there for her children.The two documentaries amply illustrate thecomplexity of substance abuse and why acomprehensive treatment strategy is essential. Package price of $350 applies to the purchaseof both documentaries.

Bihttoš (Rebel)14:00 • 2014 • $200Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Blackfoot/Sámi director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers was one of five Indigenous women commissioned by the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival to create a short film as part of Embargo Collective II, a project that encouraged the directors to push creative boundaries and invite viewers into new Indigenous cinema landscapes. Bihttoš explores the complex relationship between the director and her Sámi father through animation, re-enactments and photos. It delves into the dissolution of her parents’ mythic love story and reflects on how past injustices have coloured her perception of love. Top Ten Canadian Shorts, Toronto International Film Festival 2014; Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short, Seattle International Film Festival 2015

Canada’s Best Kept Secret: The Natural World of R.D. Lawrence 60:00 • 2012 • $200Greg DeLiso

Between 1996 and his death in 2003, naturalist R.D. Lawrence wrote 30 books, published in 32 countries and in 16 languages. Canada’s Best Kept Secret: The Natural World of R.D. Lawrence combines interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the prolific Canadian author and ecologist who provided a voice for those without one. Perhaps best known for his work with wolves, R.D. Lawrence and his wife Sharon cared for and rescued over 2,000 animals on their acreage in the northern highlands of Ontario. His impact on the green movement of the 20th century was immeasurable; his work heavily influenced the awareness of conservation and the importance of respecting wildlife in its natural environment.

TITLES in alphabetical order

Bihttoš


Canyon War: The Untold Story46:00 • 2009 • CC • $250Eva Wunderman

Shot during the 150th anniversary of the Fraser River Gold Rush, Canyon War: The Untold Story uncovers hidden history of 1858 in British Columbia. In that year alone, 30 to 40 thousand gold seekers flooded into the Fraser Valley. Tumultuous events led to the Fraser River War in August that year.

This little-known war could have escalated had it not been for the persuasive diplomacy of Chief Spintlum of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation who, along with Henry Snyder, was able to negotiate peace in Lytton. One of Chief Spintlum’s descendants, Kevin Loring (Nlaka’pamux playwright and actor) and Dr. Dan Marshall (historian and professor, whose ancestors were part of the 1858 migration) are our guides to this history, from the fight at Boston Bar to the peace at Kumsheen.

Captured: From Footbinding to Stilettos10:30 • 2010 • CC • $160 (includes discussion guide)Peg Campbell, Dr. Launette Rieb, MD

Just as the practice of footbinding was followed for centuries in China, the practice of wearing high heels has been promoted in the western world as a symbol of feminine beauty and desirability. But what happens to the body when they are worn? Captured: From Footbinding to Stilettos looks at the two practices and explores the associated beauty ideals and health risks. The film provides suggestions and tools to sidestep some of the potential harms of wearing high heels. A special features section includes print support materials for the classroom in this resource that is suitable for use in high school through graduate school.

Children of Redress19:00 • 2013 • CC • $200Greg Masuda

In 1942 the Canadian Government ordered the uprooting of 22,000 men, women and children in one of the nation’s largest and cruelest dispossessions and dispersals ever. A generation later, Japanese Canadians sought redress. Children of Redress follows their struggle in detail. It combines interviews with the negotiating team–Roy Miki, Art Miki, Cassandra Kobayashi, Audrey Kobayashi, Maryka Omatsu and Joy Kogawa, author of Obasan–to inform a new generation of the importance of this 1998 victory for social justice.

Cry Rock 28:30 • 2010 • CC • $200Banchi Hanuse

Today, fewer than 15 Nuxalk language speaker and storytellers remain in Bella Coola, British Columbia. One of these elders is Banchi Hanuse’s 80-year-old grandmother. In a technologically obsessed century, it would seem easier to record Nuxalk stories for future generations, but Hanuse resists. Instead, she asks whether an electronic recording can capture the true meaning and value of these oral traditions. More importantly, can it be considered cultural knowledge? Cry Rock examines how Nuxalk stories are more than mere words. With the passing of an elder, an invaluable link to a treasure of knowledge and experience reflecting the Nuxalk world view is lost. As Hanuse struggles with the decision, a spine tingling story about the Cry Rock in the bend of the Atnarko River, nestled in the Bella Coola Valley, is retold by Clyde Tallio, a young Nuxalk man. Immersive and revealing, the documentary blends interviews set against the wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley with vivid watercolor animations. Cry Rock illuminates the intersection of Nuxalk history, place and spirit that are at the heart of an oral storytelling tradition.

Captured: From Footbinding to Stilettos

Cry Rock


The Dancing Cop!7:00 • 2012 • $160Kelvin Redvers

Kelvin Redvers has created a musical like no other to provoke discussion about relationships between law enforcement and First Nations people. Redvers and co-writer Alexandra Staseson set the scene in a fictionalized and slightly surreal world to tell the story of an unfortunate misunderstanding rooted in prejudice.

When a policeman spots what he assumes is a fleeing shoplifter, he gives chase and engages his trusty taser. What ensues evokes the Theatre of the Absurd and will prompt a thoughtful consideration on the dynamics of power in today’s society.

Dancing With Pain 20:00 • 2013 • $160 Judith Marcuse, Dr. Leora Kuttner, PhD Four teenagers share their experiences trying to cope with chronic pain. Their thoughts are intercut with performance by dancer Vanessa Goodman in this innovative collaboration between Dr. Leora Kuttner and choreographer Judith Marcuse. Animation of the Body-Self Neuromatrix illustrates the brain’s central role in the process through different stages of healing.

Dissolve: a documentary about drug facilitated sexual assault48:00 • 2009 • $250 (includes discussion guide)Meghan Gardiner, Michelle Porter

A little liquid or powder is slipped into a drink. Women are being drugged into unconscious or semi-conscious states and being raped. They often have little or no memory of the attack or the attacker, although they know that something horrible has happened. Uninformed about these drugs, women are unaware of how vulnerable they are, and rapists are getting away with their crimes. Women need to know what they can do to

protect themselves, heal, and potentially send their attackers to prison. Dissolve is a documentary on drug-facilitated sexual assault that will inform, provoke and engage both men and women.

Do You Really Want to Know? 2 versions 72:00 • 2012 • $275 57:00 • 2012 • $250John Zaritsky

Do You Really Want to Know? explores the complex emotional, ethical and psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing. The film follows three families who have been confronted with the decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntington’s disease–a degenerative neurological illness that is akin to having ALS, Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s–and one of the first diseases people could be accurately and conclusively tested for, before the onset of any symptoms. As scientists discover more ways to identify diseases before we know we have them, “do you really want to know?” will be a question more and more of us will face.

DOLLFACE5:00 • 2016 • $160 Kirsten Johnson

A woman wakes up covered in toys. Why? Is she hungover? Depressed? Can she get up? As she debates with the toys surrounding her, live action and embroidery-floss-stop-motion animation fuse together in a mad ride exploring self-doubt, delusion and misplaced inner voices.

Kirsten Johnson is a visual artist, performance artist, and animator. Included on the DVD of the film DOLLFACE are two added features: Pea Story, a 2-minute animation, and Making Of (DOLLFACE), a 7-minute documentary where the artist reveals her intensive process of creation for this unique live-action/animation performance work.

Le Dormeur du Val3:00 • 2015 • $150 Laura CarnetIn spoken French with optional subtitles in French, English, Spanish and German

Based on Arthur Rimbaud’s poem Le Dormeur du Val, this art essay video stages different young soldiers from different times and countries, to illlustrate the absurdity of war. No matter the location or the context, the soldiers represent only one person–a victim.

Dancing With Pain


Rimbaud (1854-1891) had a short but influential life in French literature and the arts. He began writing poetry while in primary school and stopped just before age 21. He was 16 when he wrote Le Dormeur du Val and France was at war with Prussia. Written partially in the classic form, the poem foreshadows his future avant-garde style of poetry.

Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson 110:00 • 2010 • CC • $295 (includes discussion guide)Trish Dolman

Captain Paul Watson has been on a crusade to save the oceans for 40 years, and he isn’t about to stop now. Through the life and convictions of this notorious activist, director Trish Dolman crafts an epic tale of the birth of the modern environmental movement and the founding of Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Part high-octane adventure, the film follows Watson and his crew as they hunt down a Japanese whaling fleet in the vast expanse and stunning beauty of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean and seamlessly segues in and out of a wealth of archival footage from decades of confrontational activism around the world.

In-depth interviews with Watson, Bob Hunter, Patrick Moore and Farley Moway, among others, capture the heroics, the ego, the disputed tactics and the urgency of Watson’s mission.

Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy160:00 • 2009 • $375 French with English or Spanish subtitlesRichard Brouillette

Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, Encirclement sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.

Neo-liberalism’s one-size-fits-all dogmas are well known: deregulation, reducing the role of the State, privatization, limiting inflation rather than unemployment–in other words, depoliticizing the economy and putting it into the hands of the financial class. These dogmas are gradually settling into our consciousness because they’re being broadcast across a vast and pervasive network of propaganda. In fact, beginning with the founding in 1947 of the Mont Pèlerin Society, neo-liberal think tanks financed by multinational companies

and big money have propagated neo-liberal ideas in universities, in the media, and in governments.

This ideology, convinced of its historical and scientific validity–as proven, in particular, by the fall of the Soviet Union–has intoxicated all governments, left and right alike. In fact, since the end of the Cold War, the rate of neo-liberal reforms has increased dramatically. Often imposed with force, either through the structural adjustment plans of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, under the pressure of financial markets and multinationals, or even by outright war, the neo-liberal doctrine has now reached every corner of the planet. But behind the ideological smokescreen, behind the neat concepts of natural order and the harmony of interests in a free market, beyond the panacea of the “invisible hand,” what is really going on?

The Fast23:28 • 2015 • $200Doreen Manual

The Fast follows Doreen Manuel on her journey into the Rocky Mountains for a four-day fasting ceremony to tap into her inner power as a storyteller. Doreen has worked for over 20 years to develop the story about her father George Manuel, an Indigenous leader whose leadership and vision could inspire this generation to take Indigenous people into the Fourth World. The stakes are high, the story needs to be told, but Doreen is stuck and unable to tell the story.

Listening to the voices of her ancestors, Doreen is guided to the same sacred site where her father participated in ceremony, so that she may start at the beginning. Out of this journey, she discovers the answer is simple but the path is difficult, and she lays the spiritual groundwork for her next journey as a filmmaker.

The Fast


Finding Our Way 90:00 (3 chapters, 30:00 each) • 2010 • CC $200 (includes discussion guide)Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili

This is a story of a people dispossessed, deep historic wounds, and still unresolved conflict between Indigenous people, governments in Canada and industry. It’s a story of the struggles of two First Nations in the Carrier territory of north central British Columbia, Canada, for land and sovereignty, for healing and revitalization. The DVD is structured into “chapters” of three 30-minute documentaries, and it comes with an extensive discussion guide.

Chapter 1, The Contagion of Colonization, looks at the historical circumstances, including the settlement of the west, Canada’s Indian Act and the Residential School system. It provides the background on how these First Nations people find themselves in the situations they face today.

Chapter 2, High Noon at Burns Lake, tells the story of the Ts’il Kaz Koh First Nation, or Burns Lake Band. Its people have been in conflict with the Village of Burns Lake over appropriated lands for almost a hundred years, a conflict that culminated in the municipality shutting off water and sewerage services to their Reserve in the year 2000. This led to a ruling in favour of the Band by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

Chapter 3, Keeping Our Heads Above Water, tells the story of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation, whose people were evicted from their homeland in 1952 by Alcan’s hydroelectric project. Today, they are still struggling to “keep their heads above water,” culturally and economically.

This is 21st century Canada, and the story of two communities–colonizers and the colonized. It’s a story with a question mark. After almost a century of apartheid in this region, the film asks: Is there a way forward?

Fractured Land75:00 • 2015 • SDH • DV • $275 (includes discussion guide)Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher

“Deep down we’re all fractured,” an oil and gas representative tells young Aboriginal leader and lawyer Caleb Behn. Behn knows that feeling all too well, as he struggles with the role he’ll play in pro-tecting his traditional territory in northern British Columbia, an area currently under siege from some of the world’s largest natural gas operations. The troubling reality is this–the same industry threatening traditional practices and livelihoods provides his parents with jobs that has made his education possible. Whether hunting beaver, throwing hatchets or studying legal briefs, the burden of leadership is visible in Behn, as he knows others are looking to him for a better future. Following him from the pristine North to down-town Vancouver and a fracked territory in New Zealand, Fractured Land provides optimism and empowerment toward issues that can seem dire and insurmountable. As Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org puts it, “Anyone who can throw a hatchet and sue you is a force to be reckoned with.”

DVD has English and French versions.

Freedom Babies 22:00 • 2014 • $200 Doreen Manuel A young family from the Secwepemc First Nation lives in a traditional pit house near Kamloops in the Thompson River Valley of British Columbia. Their lives are rooted in concern for the environment, respect for unceded traditional territory and a return to traditional First Nations culture. Kanahus (“red woman”) is a skilled midwife who engaged in peaceful protests against the expansion of a ski resort that would compromise her people’s traditional territory. The punishment meted out for this was to separate this young nursing mother from her baby and incarcerate her.

Fractured Land

Finding Our Way


Glimpses of Light15:00 • 2010 • $160 (includes discussion guide)Emma Kendall, Keet Neville, Nicholas Kendall

Different voices from diverse cultural backgrounds share life stories about the paths travelled while navigating their experience of mental illness. Their messages are meant to serve as a catalyst for ongoing discussion to deepen our understanding of needs and experience of people who experience mental illness and, in particular, Aboriginal people and their families.

They offer suggestions for a more holistic system that includes an approach of respect, not blame, and an understanding of their need for cultural reconciliation. A health care provider comments that respect for the patient’s personal experience is an essential first step along the path to healing. This film is an initiative of the Cultural Society working group of the First Nation, Métis and Inuit Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission in collaboration with the Mood Disorders Association of Canada and the Native Mental Health Association.

Greening the Cube: 100 Mile Housing84:00 • 2012 • $280 (includes discussion guide)Tyler Austin Bradley, Andrea Vandenboer

Greening the Cube: 100 Mile Housing follows the efforts of green home builders Pete Matheson and Sean Sands as they strive to imagine and build homes that are affordable, habitable, ethical and environmentally responsible–in a word, sustainable.

Tracing the contrasting origins of these two unique builders, the diversity of design and near limitless possibilities for experimental housing is explored through their personal histories and the homes they have created. Taking inspiration from the local-food treatise The 100 Mile Diet, a concept for ‘100 Mile Housing,’ localized solutions for house and home, begins to take shape in the backwoods of Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada.

As powerful commercial interests prevailed, heavy-handed law enforcement tactics against her and others in her community continued. These included destruction of personal property, searches of homes without search warrants and threats of constant surveillance of all their communications. Such state-sanctioned intimidation tactics against freedom of expression and freedom of thought only served to convince her family of the urgent need for decolonization. As part of this process, Kanahus and her partner Guateberi have decided not to register the births of their children with governments. As a family living in harmony with nature, they are focused on teaching their children to respect the earth and be strong and self-sufficient. Freedom Babies celebrates their resilience and engagement in the long process to cleanse the ill effects of colonization.

Gender Blender: Dialogues of Hope 26:00 • 2012 • $180 Eva Wunderman

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.

Gibson Woods 23:00 • 2011 • $190Ann Verrall

This short musical drama explores a universal theme–the out-migration of young people from small rural communities that seem destined to disappear. Feeling confined by family and history, Jasmine can’t wait to leave her community of Gibson Woods. She and her group are headed to Halifax to perform and for her, the city is the key to her future. Her brother wonders what will remain of their community and its history with so many young people leaving. A sudden highway detour and engine trouble land Jasmine and her friends on a Mi’kmaq reserve. Disconnected from wi-fi and other distractions of the modern world, they focus on their surroundings. Ironically enough, they come face to face with a young man who’s been searching for the very community they just left–one he believes no longer exists. They return with him to Gibson Woods to help connect him with his roots.

Greening the Cube: 100 Mile Housing


Growing Up Among Strangers 26:00 • 2009 • $200 (includes discussion guide)Nina Sudra

Growing Up Among Strangers examines the duality of growing up in Canada’s cultural mosaic. Several young Canadians from diverse cultural backgrounds talk about their struggles to balance two worlds–the traditional, cultural values of home and the westernized culture that lies outside. Their stories are combined with comments from Canadians of earlier generations who understand this dilemma very well–author Wayson Choy (The Jade Peony), Zarqa Nawaz, creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie, and YTV host Carlos Bustamante. This combination of current anecdotes and memories upon reflection shed light on the difficulties and benefits of living in two different cultures while remaining true to one’s self.

The Hand of Franklin52:00 • 2015 •$225

Frank Wolf

The Hand of Franklin takes us intimately into the confines of a four-man expedition attempting to be the first to row self-propelled through the fabled Northwest Passage.

The journey demonstrates the alarming effects of climate change in the Arctic and its global consequences. Shot and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Frank Wolf, this epic modern-day adventure puts the audience on the oars with the Canadian/Irish team as they spend two months battling wind, ice and themselves in a sardine-can-sized rowboat.

The members of this adventurous team draw heavily on the experience and wisdom of the Inuvialuit, Inuit, and other local people they meet along the way. Their insights give breadth and depth to the ongoing calamity of a warming planet.

Hidden Legacies23:00 • 2014 • CC • $180 (includes discussion guide)Lisa Jackson

This documentary, directed by Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, profiles young people whose parents and grandparents attended government-initiated, church-run, Indian Residential Schools. These inter-generational survivors include a rapper, a mother, a boxer, a social work student and others. They share their stories of struggle, resistance and resilience and through their words, it becomes clear that the land, spiritual practice and family have been sources of strength and transformation.

How A People Live2 versions 59:00 • 2013 • CC • $295 (includes discussion guide) 45:00 • 2014 • CC • $250 (includes discussion guide) Lisa Jackson The Gwa’sala and the ‘Nakwaxda’xw First Nations lived as two distinct groups along Canada’s Queen Charlotte Strait until 1964. It was that year the Canadian Government forcibly relocated them to Tsulquate, an overcrowded reserve near Port Hardy on Vancouver Island, far from their traditional territory. They took what they could carry; when they returned for more possessions, the Indian agent had already burned their houses to the ground. The effects were devastating and prompted the 1970 publication of Alan Fry’s book How A People Die.

Yet return journeys to visit their traditional home-lands have managed to reverse a tragic spiral, help-ing them to reconnect to their land and culture. It’s a journey of healing and hope for people celebrat-ed in the past by Franz Boas and Edward Sheriff Curtis for their rich and beautiful traditions.

Best Documentary, Vancouver Women in Film Festival 2014; Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York 2014.

The Hand of Franklin

How A People Live


Intemperance10:00 • 2014 • $200 • Lisa Jackson

Based on an historical event recounted by the Ojibway author George Copway, Intemperance takes a satirical look at the introduction of “fire-water” to a village on Lake Superior in the early days of colonialism. Copway was a successfully assimilated translator and ordained Methodist minister who became a literary celebrity and popular lecturer in the New World. In 1851 he published The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation. One of the chapters, “The Effects of Liquor “ reveals a tale as morally complex today as it was several hundred years ago.

While the film is fiction, its narration is taken directly from Copway’s writing with little editing. It talks back to Hollywood, revealing a sophisticated justice system present in a so-called barbaric society. With its title, Intemperance, director Lisa Jackson strikes an ironic note that resonates in many of her short works.

JEFF WALL: In Order To Make a Picture2 versions: 75:00 • 2015 • $370 45:00 • 2015 • CC • $350Lu Nelson, Elizabeth Yake

Slowing time down and creating obstacles to work through are central to Jeff Wall’s working process. We have a rare opportunity to witness this in a film that follows the creation of two cinematically realized painterly photographs, Spring Snow and Woman with a Covered Tray. As Jeff Wall’s former designer and production manager, Lu Nelson had unfettered access to the artist. Parallel to Wall’s process, the creation of this documentary over a lengthy period of time has produced a thoughtful, in-depth portrait of one of Canada’s most interesting and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists.

The Life and Work of Alex Janvier 47:00 • 2014 • CC • $250Dr. Raoul McKay, Stephen Roberts

Alex Janvier has long been recognized as one of Canada’s greatest artistic treasures whose work helped change the face of Canadian art. He is an internationally renowned artist whose paintings are in great demand and have been exhibited in galleries and private collections around the world. For Janvier, a Dene Suline from the Cold Lake FirstNations reserve in Alberta, painting has alwaysbeen a way to tell a story. His art reflects the incredible changes that have taken place duringhis lifetime. It has been said that his paintings are not so much to be looked at as to be experienced for they reflect the lives of his people, their culture, their traditions, their hopes, and their fears. This inspiring film tells the story of a man who overcame tremendous obstacles and dedicated his life to fighting prejudice and racism against all First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people through his art and through his actions. It is a story that will stir the emotions and imaginations of all those who love art and all those who stand up for what they believe.

JEFF WALL: In Order To Make a Picture

Intemperance

The Life and Work of Alex Janvier


Marianne Matters8:00 • 2010 •$150 Amanda Richer

The lives of sisters Jennifer and Marianne took different paths when Marianne was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Even so, for 30 years, Jennifer has met her sister every Saturday morning to provide support and help Marianne keep her life functioning.

Jennifer talks about Marianne’s struggles in coping with prescribed medication, her experiments with self-medication that includes hard drugs, as well as her own exhaustion in providing support for the sister she

loves.

Mary, Mary: My Last Act of Love in the World50:00 • 2012 • $250Michael Mitchell, Sheila Murray

Mary Pocock was an artist, photographer and teacher who lived for 12 years in what she called “the dying process.” Doctors called her condition palliative. Mary insisted on living. In the last months of her life, she borrowed a video camera from filmmaker friends to record what she’d learned about the difference between the agony of death and the art of dying. Her candid words about hopes and fears are a gift of accessible wisdom. Mary had breast cancer. She was 52 when she died.

My Mother, The Nazi Midwife and Me 52:00 • 2013 • CC • $250 (includes discussion guide) Jane Hawtin War is unimaginably horrific, rife with atrocities that defy human comprehension. But after a war is over and order is restored, does hatred just disappear? My Mother, The Nazi Midwife and Me is a compelling, hour-long documentary that unearths a chilling story that time almost buried—the systematic murder of Jewish babies in a camp for displaced persons, even after the end of the Second World War. When Gina Roitman was a teenager in Montreal, her mother had alluded to such events which her young Canadian daughter didn’t take too seriously. Only as an adult, when Gina visits Passau for research about these stories, do startling revelations emerge, along with documented evidence of local governments working to conceal this dark part of history.

North Boys: The Story of Jimmy and Charlie 20:00 • 2012 • $190 Lucy van Oldenbarneveld

In 1944, Charlie Post and Jimmy Dennis were both removed from their families to attend the Le Jac Indian Residential School. Just 10 years old, they never saw their families again. They share their experiences of event that illustrate why both men have spent a lifetime trying to overcome the impact of that traumatic day and the eight years that followed. Founder’s Award, Yorkton International Film Festival

One Week Job2 versions 76:00 or 44:00 • 2010 • $250 Ian MacKenzie

After graduating from university and struggling with the question of what to do with his life, Sean Aiken created the One Week Job Project. His goal: to work 52 jobs in 52 weeks in search of his passion. As word of the project spread, the offers began pouring in. He traveled across Canada and the United States, reinventing himself as a firefighter, stock trader, radio DJ, martial arts instructor, NHL mascot, snowshoe guide and more.

During the course of his seven-day stints, whether at a dairy farm in Alberta or a real estate office in Beverly Hills, Sean discovered many others struggling to answer the same question of finding one’s calling. To find the answer, he continued to ask himself and his employers about the nature of success and the real meaning of happiness––all while having the adventure of his life.

North Boys: The Story of Jimmy and Charlie


Our First Voices 31:00 • 2010 • $200 (includes discussion guide)Helen Haig-Brown, Kelvin Redvers, Lisa Jackson,

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Producers Sharon Bliss, Catrina Longmuir, and First Nations writer/producer Marilyn Thomas created this omnibus of 13 poetic meditations on the importance of Indigenous languages. The films on the DVD range from two to four minutes each and were directed by four talented Indigenous directors: Helen Haig-Brown, Zoe Hopkins, Lisa Jackson and Kelvin Redvers.

While noting the effect the Indian Residential School system had on the decline of Indigenous languages, Our First Voices focuses on efforts being made today to create a whole new generation of teachers and learners. Using innovative technology and creating entertaining learning tools, generations come together with a common goal to reinvest in the future of their communities.

Patience and Absurdity16:00 • 2012 • $150Paula Cole, Sylvi MacCormac

Family love triumphs over Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis as a spunky Irish immigrant, “new to Alzheimer’s” joins forces with her daughter, who is living with MS, to make a cup of tea.

Undaunted by physical and mental challenges, mother and daughter celebrate family connections, kindness and caring in their joint efforts at tea time. Above all, humour at the absurdity of the teamwork required for this endeavour offers inspiration in facing life’s challenges with laughter and warmheartedness.

PICTURE START48:00 • 2011 • CC • $350Harry Killas

The members of the so-called ‘Vancouver School’ are the biggest international art stars to ever come out of Canada, yet they remain little known, even to many Canadians. PICTURE START tells the remarkable, and unlikely, story of the emergence and rise of the original generation of this esteemed group: Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Ian Wallace. They met in the ‘60s, formed (along with famed sci-fi author William Gibsons) the most uniquely talented rock band in Canadian history (the UJ3RK5), and then went on to individually achieve unprecedented global success in contemporary art.

PICTURE START draws back the curtain on this extraordinary set of artists, offering insights into how and why their ascent occurred in a city until recently known more for its surrounding forests than its artists.

Policy Baby: The Journey of Rita/Bev50:00• 2008 • $250Michael Glassbourg, Susan Stewart, Bev Jones

Bev Jones is from Keeseekoowenin, a First Nations reserve in western Manitoba. Apprehended at two months of age and put into foster care with a non-native family, she was returned to the reserve when she was six. Dislocated from her family and without a native tongue, she suffered abuse; she was then uprooted again and returned to her foster home. She spent years in a state of dislocation between two cultures, without solid roots in either one.

Today she is a social worker and riveting storyteller in her mid-forties, who coined the term “policy baby” to encapsulate her all-too-common story of dislocation and loss. In Canada, it is estimated that in the 1950s and 60s alone, over 16,000 Aboriginal children were disconnected from their families in this way. This is the story of two cultures and two histories and how Bev Jones was able to thread a pathway across extremely unstable ground to reconnect with her roots and heal.

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The Power of the Spirit50:00 • 2014 •$250

Dr. Raoul McKay, Jesse Green

Family relationships and traditional teachings of Indigenous people were severely disrupted by the Canadian Government and church-run Residential and Confessional schools from the late 1800s until well into the 20th century. The Power of the Spirit explores state-sanctioned attempts to “take the Indian out of the child” and the efforts Indigenous people embarked on in the 1950s and 60s to chart new grounds for education and spirituality based on traditional learning.

Indigenous spirituality and teachings by Elders including respect for Mother Earth, form the basis of modern education at Yellowquill College in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Blue Quills College in St. Paul, Alberta.

The Pristine Coast2 versions110:00 • 2014 • CC • $32052:00 • 2015 • CC • $280Scott Renyard

Open-net pen fish farms provide ideal conditions for the amplification of parasites and diseases. This has led to widespread crashes of wild fish popu-lations in the North Pacific and Atlantic oceans. These large-scale drops in wild fish populations have, in turn, impaired the food chain from fixing carbon in the oceans. This makes open-net pen fish farming a critical factor in ocean acidification and the climate change crisis.

The Pristine Coast explores the public policy de-cisions taken and not taken that have given rise to this dilemma, amid the rising tide of concern among many who believe that sustainability and stewardship are just as important in the oceans as on land. Awards: Focal International Award–Best Wildlife and Natural History Footage; Los Angeles Film Review– Best Feature Documentary.

SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 3)Documentary series (22:00 each) • cc • $175 each programSeries discount availableJeff Bear/Marianne Jones/Kristy Assu

This third series exploring water as a precious resource for life, culture and spirituality from the perspective of Indigenous people is written and directed by Jeff Bear (Maliseet) and Marianne Jones (Haida).

Resource management is at the forefront of six episodes. Without Running Water (Parts 1 and 2) and Kitigan Zibi Waters follow the struggles of First Nations people for a clean supply of running water. In Kahnawake Waters, Part 1, former championship wrestler and Mohawk elder Billy Two Rivers gives a history of the development of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Canadian Government altered the Indian Act to give them the right to run it through the traditional Mohawk territory, expropriating land at bargain prices, dividing the community and leaving an astonishing level of pollution from the heavy shipping traffic running right past their homes. In Every Year the Salmon Come Back, the local Indigenous community in the Okanagan works to mitigate the decline of the salmon from dams; and in Drinking From My Mother’s Well, Jeff Bear and Maliseet elders reflect on the decline of the once mighty Woolastook (St. John) River caused by industrial development.

Water and community is at the forefront of seven programs. Kahnawake Waters, Part 2, follows the importance of paddling in the Mohawk culture and the role of the Onake Paddling Club in developing champion paddlers such as Olympic Gold medalist Alwyn Morris. Tribal Journeys consists of six programs following the flourishing on Canada’s west coast of tribal journeys beginning with one organized by the Heiltsuk at Bella Bella for EXPO 86. These programs follow the planning and paddling for the convergence of 97 canoes on Squaxin in the Olympic Penninsula in 2012. They include a Maori waka, a birch bark canoe, and a canoe paddled by children from Kw’umut Lelum, an Indigenous-based child and family service program on Vancouver Island. The tribal journeys are an inspiring vehicle for revisiting tradition, developing physical fitness, self-esteem, spirituality, and a strong sense of community--a true celebration of culture on the water.

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For further information, please see SAMAQAN: Water Stories, Series 3 brochure.

Series Three

• Without Running Water, Parts 1 & 2 • Kitigan Zibi Waters • Kanawake Waters • Kanawake Waters: Onake Paddling Club • Paddle to Squaxin • Nala Winds • Kw’umut Lelum • Maori Waka, Dugout Canoe and Birch Bark • The Village Welcome • Landings and Protocol • Every Year the Salmon Come Back • Drinking from My Mother’s Well

SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 4)Documentary series (22:00 each) • cc • $175 each programSeries discount availableJeff Bear/Marianne Jones/Kristy Assu

The SAMAQAN team visits New Zealand in the first four parts of Series 4 to explore the notion of water as taonga (treasure), something that is deeply embedded in the Maori culture. Unlike Canada’s Indigenous people, an 1841 treaty between the Maori and the New Zealand Government honours their rights to self government and to have control over water. Even so, the Maori have had to make consistent efforts to insist the treaty’s terms be honoured with respect to water.

Food and sustainability are at the heart of four more parts of Series 4: The Sustainable Harvest; Seaweed: What the fucus?; and two parts of the program Herring Roe: Dead or Alive.

The Elwha River is a success story of an ecosystem restoring itself after two dams were removed in the state of Washington between 2012 and 2014. With the removal of the Glines Canyon dam and the Elwha River dam, today the Elwha River flows freely once again from its headwaters in the Olympic Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Gulf Shrimp: 4 Years and Counting revisits the site of the infamous BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. In SAMAQAN: Water Stories, Series 2, the team visited the Houma and other native Americans in 2011 after the “clean up” to see the impact; four years later, little has changed for the ecosystem and the oil remains. The effects of another industrial spill, this time from the collapse of a mine tailings pond dam releasing 10 million gallons of toxic chemical in the Cariboo region of British Columbia is examined in Mount Polley: Breach or Catastrophe?

Human hunger for energy is insatiable and the exploration for shale gas is causing a stir among citizens who are aware of the industry’s risks to the environment. Mother Frackers: The Uprising, Parts 1 and 2 explore the 2014 Healing Walk in Fort MacKay on the shore of the Athabasca River in Alberta where people converge to begin the process of healing from the damaging impact of the tar sands development. Series Four

• Water Is Taonga (4 parts) Part 1: Water As Taonga? Part 2: Kaitiaki Part 3: Kaitiaki Part 4: Aotearoa • The Sustainable Harvest • Seaweed: What the fucus? • Herring Roe: Dead or Alive, Part 1 • Herring Roe: Dead or Alive, Part 2 • The Elwha River: Taking Down the Dams • Gulf Shrimp: 4 Years and Counting • Mount Polley: Breach or Catastrophe? • Mother Frackers: The Uprising, Part 1 • Mother Frackers: The Uprising, Part 2

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Seeking the Current 86:00 • 2011 • $260Alexis de Gheldere, Nicolas Boisclair In French and English with English subtitles

Seeking the Current thoroughly investigates andquestions plans by Hydro-Québec to dam oneof the few remaining wild rivers in Québec, the500km Romaine River that empties into theSt. Lawrence. The project has been presented tothe public as making sound economic sense, one that will enable Québec to export electricity to theUnited States. Yet an economist at l’Université Laval points out that the cost of this project willsurpass any revenue it can generate, leaving tax-payers to cover the loss.

As the filmmakers canoe down this spectacular river accompanied by Roy Dupuis of the Rivers Foundation, they meet with a number of entre-preneurs engaged in more sustainable practices of clean energy such as solar energy, biomass, biogas, energy efficiency, wind and geothermal power. All are thoroughly examined in terms of cost, applicability, and efficiency. A subsequent investigation into corruption in the construction industry suggests other motives for the dam.

A Second Skin10:00 • 2014 • $150 Shawn Kosmerly In 2011, Christin Milloy ran for office in the Ontario Provincial Government. She was the first transgendered person to do so. Although she was not elected, she continues to work tirelessly for the rights of transgendered people in Canada. The Ontario Human Rights code was recently amended to include transgendered people with the passage of Toby’s Law. Christin reflects on her childhood recollections of knowing something was not right and her decision to take the step to become a woman. Her parents comment and the family discusses working with the medical establishment, as well as her struggle with gatekeepers to her work today as a human rights activist working to champion rights of transgendered people.

SAVAGE6:00 • 2009 • $170Lisa Jackson/Lauren Grant/Lori Lozinski

This award-winning short drama, directed by Lisa Jackson, comes out of a project called “The Embargo Collective,” a project of Toronto’s imagineNATIVE Festival. A group of seven international Indigenous filmmakers interested in collaboration and open to artistic challenge were brought together and asked to construct a set of obstructions that would encourage each of them to push their creative boundaries in making a short film. Two common principles prevailed: the theme was patience, and the films were to contain no spoken English. Documentary filmmaker Lisa Jackson was asked to create a musical that would include heavy metal, set decoration, and include both actors and non-actors. SAVAGE is the result.

It’s late summer in the 1950s, and a young Native girl is on her way to residential school. A Cree woman in her kitchen sings a lullaby in her native language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that turns the woman’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain. Once installed in the residential school, life is stern and there aren’t many chances to be a kid…except when no one is watching.

“Co-opting the denigrating term ‘savage’ for the title, Lisa Jackson turns the tables on the language of colonization and captures our attention. Meeting creative challenges posed in a powerful way and then dubbing the resulting film as ‘a residential school musical,’ turns our heads again. Without trivializing a dark part of Canada’s history, SAVAGE invites the viewer to reconsider residential schools in a way that pushes the boundaries of thought. While exploring creative perimeters, the film muses on the capacity of children to harness the power of imagination as shelter from the most unpleasant of circumstances.” - Sylvia Jonescu Lisitza

Awards: 2011 Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama; 2010 Yorkton International Short Film Festival: Golden Sheaf Award for Best Multicultural Film; 2010 Leo Awards: Best Actress (Skeena Reece) and Best Editing (Hart Snider and Brendan Woollard).

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Suckerfish8:00 • 2004 • $180Lisa Jackson

When she was ten, Lisa Jackson fled Toronto to live with relatives in Vancouver to escape her mother’s depression, alcoholism and prescription drug abuse, legacies of the residential school experience. Sifting through her memories and her mother’s letters, she constructs a portrait of a mother whose drive to love her daughter triumphed over her demons of addiction. Animation, childhood photographs and stylized recreations add the young child’s whimsical voice to this moving, at times humorous, look at the director’s relationship to her mother and native identity.

SILENT NO MORE Louise Pentz, A Voice for Social Change27:00 • 2015 • CC • $180 (includes discussion guide)Andrea Vandenboer, Grace Butland

Art is an expression of our humanity, and artists give expression to the time and place in which they live. In SILENT NO MORE, Pentz shapes clay into life-size female sculptures, scoring, marking and scarring them to create tactile surfaces that reflect the experiences of women whose lives have been restrained by culture, religion, illiteracy and fear.

Pentz discusses the inspiration and motivationaround her work–her experience as a productionpotter, how she became interested in creatingthe female figure, her increasing awareness ofthe violence and injustice experienced by womenaround the world and her pledge to use her art asa voice for social change.

SNARE3:30 • 2013 • $180Lisa Jackson

This evocative and haunting performance film captures the brutality and violence against Indigenous women while celebrating hope for a different future. Created by Anishinaabe artist Lisa Jackson, it concludes with the Canadian national anthem sung in Cree, one of many Indigenous languages of Canada’s First Peoples. This is the expanded version of the original one minute silent work, commissioned as part of the imagineNATIVE Films Festival’s Stolen Sisters initiative.

SPACE SUITE 2 parts, package price for both $290 Space Suite 1 • 2015 • 20:00 • $160Space Suite 2 • 2016 • 20:00 • $160 Eric Hogan, Tara Hungerford

Art meets science in a stunning cinematic explora-tion of space. Against a backdrop of classical music, Dr. Jaymie Matthews, astronomer and UBC astro-physicist guides an exploration into the vast beauty and mystery of the universe. A star dies in a super-nova explosion and curtains of light, the aurora borealis, dance before our eyes. Galaxies collide. Comets flash across the sky. The moon arcs across night’s horizon, inspiring poets and dreamers.

This evocative series of short works mixes visual exploration and scientific fact with ancient lore and literature to reflect our fascination with the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the sun’s sad demise billions of years in the future.

Underscoring the movement of planets and stars are harmonious selections from classical music, including Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8; Debussy’s “Claire de Lune”; and Bach’s Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G major.

Stolen Memories43:30 • 2010 • CC • $250 Kagan Goh, Imtiaz Popat

If you had to walk out of your present life in 48 hours, possibly never to return, what would you take with you? What would you leave behind? When a photo album from a Japanese Canadian family is discovered in an attic, it finds its way into the hands of Kagan Goh. This sets in motion a personal quest for Kagan to find the family or descendants of the owners. He pursues the mystery, aided by the late Mary Seki, his 69-year-old detective sidekick. Documenting the search and redressing the wrongs of the past is a symbolic “homecoming”--return to a place of self-acceptance, belonging, wholeness and healing.

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Traceable43:00 • 2014 • CC • $250 (includes discussion guide)Jennifer Sharpe

Traceable is set against the backdrop of the fast-fashion industry and our increasing disconnect of where and how clothing is made, and the hands that create a garment. Interviews with traceability experts, intercut with emerging designer Laura Siegel’s journey across India to produce her collection, the film explores our connection to the communities impacted by the products we consume. The question for Laura is how will the market perceive and react to an idealistic designer whose aim is to connect the consumer to the hand that crafted her garments? And is positioning her collection in the sustainable domain enough to perpetuate her career long-term?

UNDEFEATED: An intimate portrait of Parkinson’s52:00 • 2013 • $225Kim Knechtel

Inspirational and raw, UNDEFEATED features five individuals living with Parkinson’s, the second-most-common neurological disorder after Alzheimer’s. All led very active lives and continue to be as active as they can. They share a wealth of information on daily challenges they face--while shopping, driving, getting dressed, shaving, representing a client as a courtroom lawyer, hiking, and many more.

They discuss symptoms that led them to suspect the onset of this disorder that has no diagnostic test. Their coping strategies are inspiring. So is their com-mitment to fitness and the love and support they receive from family and community. Recent research into this disorder rounds out this extensive and unique portrait of life with Parkinson’s.

Surviving Eugenics 44:00 • 2015 • SDH • $275 (includes discussion guide) Jordan Miller, Nicola Fairbrother, Robert A. Wilson In 1996, Leilani Muir won a landmark legal case against the Canadian province of Alberta for wrongful sterilization and confinement at the Provincial Training School in Red Deer, an institution for “mental defectives”. Surviving Eugenics traces the history and ongoing significance of eugenics in Canada. Anchored by survivor narratives from Leilani and four other eugenics survivors from Alberta, and drawing on expert testimony from those involved in the case, Surviving Eugenics provides a unique insiders’ view of eugenic history while raising broader questions about disability and human variation in contemporary North American society. The DVD is in spoken English with sub-titles in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. It is accompanied by an extensive discussion guide, available both in print (in English or in French) and online.

SUZY LAKE: Playing With Time 62:00 • 2014 • $360 Annette Mangaard

Performance artist and photographer Suzy Lake began her practice in the early 1960s. This in-depth portrait follows the artist and her process over decades of powerful works that address politics, gender, youth, beauty and aging. From her motion portraits in the Choreographed Puppets series to grid form self-portrait works including Miss Chatelaine (1973) to a number of performance works, Lake has inspired a succession of artists. Curators and artists discuss Suzy Lake’s impact on contemporary art and feminism. The artist reveals her process as she continues to explore movement and time in her recent environmental portraits. Suzy Lake is a 2016 recipient of the Governor General’s award in Visual Arts.

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Us & Them: Canadian Identity and Race Relations45:00 • 1999 (DVD release 2016) • CC • $200Susanne Tabata

On the eve of the 21st century, nine Canadian teens spoke articulately about what concerned them most as Canadian youth. Their cultural backgrounds varied–Québecois, Anglophone European, First Nations, Asian and West Indian– as did their socio-economic backgrounds.

Years later, their comments are as relevant as when they first made them. In their scrutiny of important issues such as what it is to be a Canadian, the possibility of Québec separation, First Nations self-government, globalization and the environment, they reveal Canada’s great strength as a nation and what issues ignored by earlier generations of Canadians still need to be addressed.

Uulx - The Scratcher6:00 • 2015 • $180Banchi Hanuse

In a stark and stunning frozen remote landscape, an unlikely encounter between hunter and thehunted unfolds. But which is which? Shot in the remote and rugged plateau above Bella Coola, British Columbia, suspense is conveyed by imagery and acting in this film with no dialogue. Inspired by a true story, Uulx--The Scratcher is a cautionary tale that invites us to consider our own disassociation from the natural environment.

We Carry Each Other’s Memories60:00 • 2013 • $200Allan Tremblay, Danny Crain, Marilyn Simon Ingram

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.

The participants are from three First Nations in New Brunswick, and the DVD is structured in three separate sections to give voice to members of each of those nations--Tobique (19 minutes), Elsipogtog (18 minutes) and Esgenoôpetitj (18 minutes). Their recollections are echoed by subsequent generations who were affected deeply as the impact of trauma is transferred from generation to generation.

The Shubenacadie Residential School operated from 1928 to 1967, taking children from four Atlantic provinces and eastern Québec. Stories shared by brave survivors illustrate the destructive impact Canada’s Indian Residential School system had on its Indigenous people and their descendants.

“We will continue to tell our stories so that this will never happen again.” - Marilyn Simon Ingram

Women Building Peace79:00 • 2016 • SDH • $320Colleen Wagner, Geneviève Appleton

This is the story of remarkable women who, after surviving violence, war and genocide in Africa, are rebuilding their lives and societies, forgiving the killers of their families, adopting and raising orphans, breaking taboos, and redefining what it means to be a woman in their traditional cultures. This documentary looks at some of the root causes behind the atrocities, and how existing matriarchal societies, whose cultural framework and belief systems not only embrace the feminine but see god as female, provide a much-needed peaceful and gender-balanced alternative to the violent, discriminatory cultures that currently dominate most of the world.

The DVD features a play-through version and the option to play four individual chapters: Before Patriarchy; Women on the Frontlines of Violence; Healing, Forgiveness and Peace-Building; Matriarchies, Peaceful Societies and Moving Forward.

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