The reality of growing up as a bi-racial child in Ukraine, a rare and truly visible minority, is not for the faint of heart. Sundance Fiilm Festival premiered documentary follows the lives of headstrong foster mother Olga Nenya and her rambunctious brood of 16 orphans.
Affectionately known as La Pointe, Pointe-Saint-Charles is a working-class neighbourhood in southwest Montreal. Once among the biggest industrial districts in Canada, today it is under attack by real estate developers. With luxury condo towers springing up like weeds along the Lachine Canal, residents…
The film brings to life a lost interview with of one of the modern history's greatest leaders, David Ben-Gurion. It is 1968, he is 82 and lives in the desert. Ben-Gurion's introspective soul-searching provides a surprising vision for crucial decisions Israel needs to make today. At the time…
Started in the 1980s as a fabricated movement intended to punk the punk scene, Queercore quickly became a real-life cultural community of LGBTQ music and movie-making revolutionaries. From the start of the pseudo-movement to the widespread rise of pop artists who used queer identity to push back against…
Amidst the uprising in Ferguson, seven St. Louis college students evolve into advocates and activists as they demand change through policy and protest and test the validity of the Margaret Mead quote: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed,…
Uncover the secrets of Hall of Fame band Parliament Funkadelic. Members open up about money, exploits, and the creativity behind a unique genre of music. This is untold story of the rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever. Featuring Billy Nelson, Cordell Mosson, Gary Shider, Grady Thomas, Clarence…
When Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami’s debut novel Hear the Wind Sing, a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep,…
There is beauty to be found in the pattern on a porcelain teacup, or the “patina of a working boat at rest.” In her nostalgic, lifelike, and sometimes whimsical paintings, artist Heather Neill pays homage to the ordinary — items that are likely overlooked before Neill captures their…
This critically acclaimed documentary film is about Allen Whiting. A farmer who has been living off the land as his family has for 12 generations, Allen is known more for his plein-air paintings, depictions of island landscapes that can be found in the collections of those lucky few who have been visiting…
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The award-winning PBS documentary film '4 Wheel Bob', tells the story of Bob Coomber, an intrepid adventurer who sets out to be the first wheelchair hiker to cross the 11,845-foot Kearsarge Pass in the Sierra Nevada. Kearsarge Pass is a classic high approach into the Eastern Sierra, ten…
It seemed to happen almost overnight. Thousands of ash trees started dying unexpectedly on every street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Parks and roads had to be closed due to fallen trees. The killer was a tiny green insect known as the emerald ash borer from Asia, and it was devouring native American ash trees…
