Black Men Loving is a film that challenges racial assumptions and stereotypes often associated with Black fathers in the media. Through short intimate profiles with men from Regent Park and across Toronto, the film shares a new perspective on Black fathers, as they take on parenthood in full stride.…
Cloudmont tells the story of the Jones family and their remarkable struggle against all odds to create the first and only ski hill in Alabama. For over 46 years, they have managed to persevere through climate change, personal tragedy and financial hardship in an attempt to keep their impossible dream…
A follow-up to Better Dead. BETTER DEAD made in 1970 An undramatised documentary which shows, without script or actors, the harrowing effects of drugs misuse. Young addicts tell of their experiences and sequences show them injecting drugs. "Talking heads" and "fixing" shots are…
Jamaican Jean Barnard, now a social worker, up against 'institutional racism'. When Jean Bernard arrived in England from Jamaica she was shocked by the unwelcoming and alien climate; the appalling housing conditions she faced and the dirty, low-paid jobs which were the only ones on offer.…
This independant documentary linking poetry, artistic testimonies and performances offers a positive, innovating outlook on our creativity. It exposes the obstacles that may hinder it as well as the powerful assets creativity provides throughout our lives and in many different fields. Catherine Vidal,…
'Isabela: A Green Explorer Expedition' - A darker look at paradise in the Galapagos archipelago. Environmental artist and world traveller Billy Strong and Filmmaker / Photographer Dell Cullum, both from East Hampton, New York take an unauthorized journey and expedition onto never before landed…
Malcolm Brown talks to residents in a home in Scotland. A series of three videotapes entitled "Being Old and in Care". In this series Malcolm Brown interviews elderly residents from residential homes in the Strathclyde region and from them draws insights about both growing old and living…
A film by STEVE THOMAS. Amal Basry watched “Titanic” at a cinema in Baghdad the night before she fled Iraq. 18 months later she was on a people smuggling boat which sank between Indonesia and Australia. Amal survived by clinging for 22 hours to the floating body of a dead woman. Now Amal…
FUTURE SHOCK! The Story of 2000 AD charts how the multi-award winning comic came to be, how it has survived for 37 years, and how it continues to be an innovator and game-changer in both comics and the wider cultural world beyond.
The fascinating true story of Andrew J Paris, the Bubble Gum King and how he, as a single businessman, cornered the latex market for the entire western hemisphere and ruled the bubble gum world.
JL Ratchel had the good idea to knock on the door of PVS Company and ask them to produce a documentary retracing his career. It must be said that the boy has things to tell. Born in the Antilles, he arrives at the age of 12 (1998) in La Clusaz, France. It will take him little time to tame his skis and…
For ballet fans, as well as those interested in the dance arts, A Life for Ballet offers a stunning look at the master Pierre Lacotte and his impressive career. Lacotte and his wife and dance partner, Ghislaine Thesmar, influenced the world of ballet with their work, including adaptations of romantic…
