Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-3 of 3
- After learning of the shocking statistic that women are the fastest growing prison population worldwide, three filmmakers walked into a Canadian prison with a very simple question for the women inside: What would have needed in society to have not ended up here? In Conviction, Ackerman, Pahlke, and MacInnes, take a unique and creative collaborative approach with women on the inside, Bianca Mercer, Treena Smith, Laura Toney, Caitlin Hill, as well as prison guard, Tanya Bignell, to answer that question. They paint, draw, sing, photograph and film, envisioning a more ideal world, authoring their own narratives through art. They join advocates and Senator Kim Pate, in a worldwide movement questioning the ideas of punishment and prison. It implores the viewer to ask why it is that we imprison our most vulnerable - those who are battling childhood traumas, mental health issues and addiction. Not another 'broken prison' film, this collaboration is a 'broken society' film-an ambitious and inspired re-build of our community, from the inside out.
- Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Old Growth Eastern Hemlock forests, the film follows the passionate people trying to save it from an invasive tree-killing insect and ecological catastrophe. Deftly balancing our tendency towards interfering with nature, with the desire to right our environmental wrongs, In the Quiet and the Dark questions our role as humans on this planet.
- On the remote shores of Sable Island, N.S., we meet the world's largest breeding colony of grey seals and the people who study them.