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A documentary about how a motley band of – mostly female- retail workers took on a retail giant – Canada’s Timothy Eaton Company. In the tradition of socialist and feminist filmmaking of the day, we immersed ourselves in these women’s lives as they fought for a first contract, hanging out with strikers on the picket line, at union meetings and in their homes.
This documentary examines the meanings of peace movements, from a socialist-feminist perspective. Beginning with civil disobedience actions at Litton Systems Canada in Toronto, supplier of parts for cruise missiles, and expanding into just wars in Latin America, major feminist organizers in Toronto like Mariana Valverde and Carmencita Hernandez ponder the rise in militarism in the Mulroney-Reagan era. The film tries to make connections between Canadian and U.S. participation in the arms race, and liberation struggles in the global south.
This campy, experimental drama uses Freudian theory and the film noir genre to rewrite the story of Nancy Drew and comment upon the notion of 'false memory syndrome', which was raging at the time. Created during an artists' residency at The Western Front in Vancouver, it includes hilarious cameo performances by some of Vancouver's most renowned media and performance artists, including Hank Bull, Eric Metcalfe, and Lori Weidenhammer.
Analogue Revolution traces the rise and fall of analogue feminist communications that preceded the MeToo era. From Halifax to Vancouver, feminist storytellers of the 1970s to 90s took hold of cutting-edge media technology to document everything from violence towards women, to how to insert a diaphragm.
Follows the progress of the Euromaidan revolution from the perspective of LGBT Ukrainians. From accounts of exile and torture, to stories of resistance, this film shows a side of the conflict in Ukraine the world has not yet seen.
An experimental film about the politics of fashion and the fashion of politics.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.