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- The roller coaster of addiction. With the help of interventionists, the subject must make a life-and-death decision - continue their descent to rock bottom alone, or accept the offer of a clear path to recovery in one of Canada's top addiction treatment facilities.
- An examination of an alternative means to accurately poll for political opinions through an artificial intelligence program named Polly.
- Each episode of this six-part series brings politicians with different points of view together on a "date" to bring to life opposing perspectives on important Canadian issues.
- Coming from an upper-middle class background with a good education, close friends and family members (she has one adolescent daughter), 37 year old Canadian Lisa seemed to be the least likely person to get caught up in the dangerous and self-destructive world of crack addiction and prostitution (which is how she funds her habit). She discusses in a very honest, open and articulate manner here in the film's intimate setting (her Toronto hotel room to be precise) just what led her down this tragic path that she currently finds herself in, and how she ultimately wants nothing more than to reach full sobriety someday so as to not only return to some semblance of a normal life as a mother, daughter and friend but to hopefully educate and help others, specifically women, who have found themselves in a similar situation as hers.
- Chain stores often spell doom and gloom for the American Mom and Pop business. Independent America: Rising from Ruins explores the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and how the Moms and Pops provided hope where corporate America disappointed.
- Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop follows Hanson Hosein (Emmy and Overseas Press Club winner, former NBC journalist) and his wife, Heather Hughes (NBC News) as they hit the road and travel 13 thousand miles through 32 states in search of Independent America. They do it all while abiding by two simple rules of the road: 1) No Interstates: They can only travel on secondary highways and country roads 2) They can only do business with Mom & Pop. No McDonalds, No Best Westerns. No Wal-Marts. The documentary feature uncovers the growing discontent with big box, corporate America. The filmmakers capture pockets of resistance across the country, which adds up to a nationwide opposition: Starbucks is vandalized in Colorado. Supporters of an anti-big box law in Arizona are compared to Nazis. A rebellious Texan city forces Borders Books into retreat. Patriotic residents of America's "Fourth of July" capital in Nebraska start to turn on their new super center. And an entire town in Wyoming goes into business for itself after it's abandoned by its chain department store. And what does the world's largest retailer have to say about it all? The filmmakers stop in Bentonville, Arkansas - home to Wal-Mart - to find out. Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop is a film that encourages people to think hard about where they spend their money. And it offers a rare, and comprehensive view of a country at loggerheads with the free market economy it has mastered.
- Black Nation is a film that takes an uncompromising look at the state of Black manhood in America as seen through the prism of the streets of Detroit, past and present, and that city's controversial Church of the Black Madonna. Filmmaker Mats Hjelm draws on his deep personal connection with the Church and the City, to explore the racial, cultural and political ramifications of a "black male Genocide". Black Nation offers the audience a penetrating look at what it means to be a Black Man in America today.
- This film follows Peter Oliver, ex-pat South African and one of Canada's most successful restaurateurs, as he travels to South Africa on behalf of The Stephen Leacock Foundation, an organization he founded. In the process, he finds himself on a collision course with reality. While visiting the schools he's built and continues to support, Oliver discovers that a post-apartheid hangover in South Africa persists. Old attitudes, divisions and practices prevail in some corners, and need to be addressed if Oliver's support is to continue. At the same time, we see a confident and competent educational institution bristle at the suggestion that they need to adapt to a first world vision that fails to appreciate their reality. It falls to Peter to collaborate with educators, in a determined effort to find hope and redemption in an incredibly complicated environment. A controversial, emotional and strikingly beautiful film, PURE INTENTIONS is the story of a man who seeks to right the wrongs of his home country's past by helping it's future - it's children. In the process, Oliver's journey takes an unexpected and very personal twist.
- Jade's family is scared that she won't live much longer with her addiction to opiods and cocaine without an intervention.