Interest: Environment
Pretty Big Dig
Director
Anne Troake
Cast
Chris Greenley, Rick Hunt, Ed Breen
Genre
Experimental
Interests
Arts and Culture, Environment, Female Filmmaker
Original Language
English
The Energy Carol
Director
Les Drew
Genre
Animation
Interest
Environment
Original Language
English
Second Hand
Two neighbours have very different ideas about wasting time and saving stuff in this humourous meditation on what’s precious or disposable.
Director
Isaac King
Producer
Isaac King
Genres
Animation, Drama
Interests
Environment, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
No Dialogue
- Own Voice
Mattress
Director
Michelle Kee
Writers
Michelle Kee, Quinn Spicker
Cast
Sean Quan, Valerie Sing-Turner, Doralynn Mui
Producers
Emma Peterson, David Kelso
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Environment, Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
Kee Household
Meltdown
Director
Carrie Mombourquette
Writer
Carrie Mombourquette
Producer
Michael Fukushima
Genres
Animation, Family
Interest
Environment
Original Languages
English, French
Language Version
None
Canadian Distributor
National Film Board (NFB)
What on Earth!
This Oscar-nominated animated short proposes what many earthlings have long feared – that the automobile has inherited the planet!
Directors
Les Drew, Kaj Pindal
Genre
Animation
Interest
Environment
Original Language
English
Sharkwater Revolution Saipan
Director
Rob Stewart
Stewart was an award-winning journalist and filmmaker, whose docs Sharkwater, and Revolution earned awards at festivals worldwide. A tireless activist, Stewart was credited with saving a third of the world’s sharks. He tragically passed away in 2017, while filming Sharkwater: Extinction, which was completed posthumously and premiered at TIFF 2018.
Genre
Documentary
Interest
Environment
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Stories From Our Land – Tide
A beautiful short film that captures the majesty of ice sculpted by wind and water. Time-lapse imagery reveals the dynamic dance of water and ice in the Arctic, in Nunavut.
Director
Ericka Chemko
Writer
Ericka Chemko
Producer
David Christensen
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Environment, Female Filmmaker, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
No Dialogue
- Own Voice
Rise: Sacred Water – Standing Rock Part 1
This powerful documentary series from VICELAND gives viewers a rare glimpse into the frontline of Indigenous-led resistance, examining Indigenous life through the stories of people in diverse communities who are working to protect their homelands. Several episodes of this urgent and timely show debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and were hailed as “persuasive and poignant” by The New York Times.
Sacred Water: Standing Rock Part 1 The residents of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation of South Dakota are fighting to stop a pipeline from being built on their ancestral homeland. In this absorbing account of the events leading up to the protests, Anishinaabe host Sarain Carson-Fox provides context and background, telling the water protectors’ side of the story as the conflict develops right before our eyes.
Director
Michelle Latimer
A filmmaker and actor, Latimer’s first short, Choke, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her credits include several documentaries and dramatic shorts, such as The Underground and Nuuca. She has directed the television series Rise, Burden of Truth and Trickster.
Cast
Gitz Crazyboy (Blackfoot/Dene), Sarain Carson-Fox (Anishinaabe)
Producer
Jarrett Martineau (nēhiyaw/Dene Sųłiné)
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Discrimination, Environment, Female Filmmaker, History, Indigenous Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Rise: Red Power – Standing Rock Part 2
This powerful documentary series from VICELAND gives viewers a rare glimpse into the frontline of Indigenous-led resistance, examining Indigenous life through the stories of people in diverse communities who are working to protect their homelands. Several episodes of this urgent and timely show debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and were hailed as “persuasive and poignant” by The New York Times.
Red Power: Standing Rock Part 2 As the #noDAPL movement grows in size and reaches a boiling point, over 5,000 people descend on the Standing Rock camp. Using the unprecedented occupation at Standing Rock as its starting point, this episode delves into the evolution of the Red Power Movement, combining history lessons about Indigenous-led resistance with explosive footage of this urgent and historic moment.
Director
Michelle Latimer
A filmmaker and actor, Latimer’s first short, Choke, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her credits include several documentaries and dramatic shorts, such as The Underground and Nuuca. She has directed the television series Rise, Burden of Truth and Trickster.
Cast
Sarain Carson-Fox (Anishinaabe), Gitz Crazyboy (Blackfoot/Dene)
Producer
Jarrett Martineau (nēhiyaw/Dene Sųłiné)
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Discrimination, Environment, Female Filmmaker, History, Indigenous Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Rise: The Urban Rez
Winnipeg is home to the largest urban Indigenous population in the country, with a high percentage living in a low-income neighbourhood with the highest crime rate in the city. In the face of a staggering number of cases of missing Indigenous women and girls, the community has decided to take a stand, working on an individual level to support, protect and improve the lives of its residents.
Hosted by Gitz Crazyboy (Blackfoot, Dene) this documentary shows the brave fighters who have dedicated themselves to the cause and delves into the underlying factors and intergenerational trauma that has allowed this environment to develop in the first place.
Director
Michelle Latimer
A filmmaker and actor, Latimer’s first short, Choke, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her credits include several documentaries and dramatic shorts, such as The Underground and Nuuca. She has directed the television series Rise, Burden of Truth and Trickster.
Cast
Sarain Carson-Fox (Anishinaabe), Gitz Crazyboy (Blackfoot/Dene)
Producer
Jarrett Martineau (nēhiyaw/Dene Sųłiné)
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Discrimination, Environment, Female Filmmaker, History, Indigenous Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Overburden
Directors
Warren Cariou (Métis), Neil McArthur
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Environment
Original Language
English
Language Version
None
Canadian Distributor
Winnipeg Film Group
- Own Voice
Traditional Healing
Director
Raymond Caplin (Mi’qmaw)
Writer
Raymond Caplin (Mi’qmaw)
Cast
Kaelyn Martin
Genres
Animation, Drama
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Environment, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
Wapikoni Mobile
Le givre de Bobby-Yves
Directors
Bogdan Anifrani, Ranee Inez
Writers
Bogdan Anifrani, Ranee Inez
Producer
Sharon Corder
Genre
Drama
Interests
Arts and Culture, Environment, Female Filmmaker
Original Language
French
The Ghosts in Our Machine
In a film that explores the rights of non-human animals through the compassionate lens of international photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, we meet individual animals living within — and rescued from — the machine of our modern world.
Director
Liz Marshall
Writer
Liz Marshall
Producers
Nina Beveridge, Liz Marshall
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Environment, Female Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Languages
English, French, Other Language
Canadian Distributor
INDIECAN ENTERTAINMENT INC
- Own Voice
Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World
Director
Charles Wilkinson
Producer
Tina Schliessler
Genre
Documentary
Interest
Environment
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
Wilkinson Household
How to Change the World
Eco-organization Greenpeace has boots on the ground all over the world. But their origin story begins in 1971, when a group of activists sailed on an old fishing boat from Vancouver to Amchitka, Alaska for one goal — to stop then-President Nixon’s atomic bomb tests.
Based on memoirs by eco-activist and Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter, this inspiring film won two Canadian Screen Awards and the documentary editing award at the Sundance Film Festival, for its skillfully layered storytelling.
Director
Jerry Rothwell
Writer
Jerry Rothwell
Producers
Bous De Jong, Al Morrow
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Environment, History, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
levelFILM
- Own Voice
Up the Yangtze
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
Director
Yung Chang
Writer
Yung Chang
Producers
Mila Aung-Thwin, John Christou, Germaine Wong
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Asian Filmmaker, BIPOC Stories, Environment, Global Experiences, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
National Film Board (NFB)
Hadwin’s Judgement
Inspired by John Vaillant’s award-winning book The Golden Spruce, the film introduces us to the complex character of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer and expert woodsman who lived and worked in British Columbia’s remote and ancient forests.
In 1997, Hadwin was driven to commit what some would say was an extraordinary and incomprehensible act, one that ran contrary to all he had come to value. To some, he became an environmental terrorist, and to others, a misunderstood activist — but what was he, really? Weaving together speculation and reality, Hadwin’s Judgement paints a complex portrait of the devastation and internal turmoil that led Hadwin to his decision.
Director
Sasha Snow
Writers
Sasha Snow, John Vaillant
Cast
Sasha Snow
Producers
David Allen, David Christensen, Yves J. Ma, Elizabeth Yake
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Biography, Environment, History, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
National Film Board (NFB)
Sea of Life
Culminating in the demonstrations leading up to the important but ultimately ineffective Paris Climate Agreement, this documentary charts a path for what comes next and how a conscious treatment of the ocean could present the answer to keeping our planet liveable and beautiful for generations to come.
Director
Julia Barnes
Writer
Julia Barnes
Cast
Julia Barnes, Rob Stewart
Producer
Julia Barnes
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Environment, Female Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
Oceanic Productions