During the 1970s, a prominent Vancouver high school initiated Quest, a one-semester outdoor education program. But for teacher Tom Ellison, Quest was more than just an outdoor program – it was an opportunity for him to engage in sexual improprieties with a steady stream of teenage girls. For…
Shut Up And Say Something follows acclaimed international spoken word artist Shane Koyczan on an emotional road trip to reconnect with the father he never knew. Seen and heard by millions worldwide, Shane's poignant and powerful poems tackle everything from bullying to body image - but behind his…
Internet predators are shape shifters who pose online as whoever our children need them to be. In 1999, 1 in 5 kids with Internet access was sexually approached on the web. A Stranger In Our Home tells the disturbing tale of Daniel and Stephanie, two teenage victims of Internet predators.
In 1935, street photographer Foncie Pulice set up his camera on a Vancouver city sidewalk and for the next 45 years made a living capturing the river of people flowing through Vancouver’s downtown. He snapped hundreds, thousands, and eventually millions of pictures capturing a movement, a moment…
THE SEARCH FOR EVANGELINE is an hommage to 100 years of feature filmmaking in Canada. Evangeline was the first feature film directed by E. Sullivan and P. Cavanaugh made in Canada in 1913 and shot in Nova Scotia based upon a Longfellow poem written in 1847 depicting the expulsion of the Acadian population…
Their neighbors thought they were crazy. Their kids were teased at school. Turns out they were onto something... In 1953, Nebraska farmer Donald Vetter quit spraying chemicals on his crops in order to farm in harmony with nature. His farmer neighbors doubted his sanity. When his son, David, came…
I don't know why the gods chose me to be in this business but there must have been a reason and I'm still enjoying it so tremendously,” says Eartha Kitt in this intimate and eye-opening portrait. Filmed in 1982 at the singer’s remote home and multiple live performances, All…
Every Year in New Orleans Louisiana the Mardis Gras Indian tribes gather on the Sunday closest to St. Joseph’s Day to celebrate their pride and joy. Influenced by his father Les Blank, son Harrod Blank joins the parade with his camera. This is a tribute piece to “Always For Pleasure” by…
Destinies Cristiana Grigore is the first episode from a documentary series that presents success against all odds stories. In this episode we meet a young roma girl from a little village in Romania and we follow her into her journey to Columbia University and her new life in New York. What are the chances…
Pembe Mentesh, an Australian born Cypriot, once relocating to Cyprus, sets out to find out the fate of her great aunt Fetine who was forced into marriage and sent to Palestine, never to be seen again.
In a no holds barred documentary, acclaimed journalist Vicky O'Neil sets out on a quest to uncover the truth behind the murder of small town sweetheart Ally Andrews. What she uncovers, leads her down a dark and twisted rabbit hole into the world of superheroes where she gets the chance of a lifetime,…
The expedition of three Swiss Filmmakers into the heart of the uncharted Amazon Rainforest. The «Chaplin Laguna», this expanse of fresh-water in the heart of the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in the Bolivian Amazon, is a veritable chimera for aboriginals and scientists. Described as inaccessible…
