“A Modern Castle” is the story of the massive $250 million rebuilding project of one of Canada’s most treasured historical
buildings, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
A Modern Castle
Judith Jasmin Televising a Revolution
She was the globe trotting, pioneering French Canadian reporter in the 1940s and 50s. Sophisticated and brilliant, Judith Jasmin had the chance to experience and report on things few women of the era dared imagine seeing.
Continue readingLa Bolduc
The poignant biography of Mary Travers-Bolduc, Quebec’s risqué singing/songwriting star of the 1930s.
Continue readingJay Silverheels: The Man Beside the Mask
Before Johnny Depp stepped into the role of Tonto, Ontario-born Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels was always known and remembered as the original Tonto, the faithful ‘Injun sidekick’, in the 1950s TV series “The Lone Ranger”.
Continue readingOnce Upon a Journey
Once Upon a Journey tells the story of a unique media studies program at Laurier Macdonald High School in the east end of Montreal. The overwhelming majority of the students in this school are second and third generation Canadians, most of Italian descent.
Continue readingLouis Cyr: The Father of Strength
This entertaining documentary travels into the theatrical world of old time strongmen and into the start of the cult of modern day bodybuilding.
Continue readingBackroads
In this sequel to Longshots, two young adult siblings, Adam, 21 and Harmony, 19, hitchhike across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver Island to find the mother who disappeared from their lives almost two decades earlier.
Continue readingStill Longshots
Still Longshots follows four at-risk young people through a summer-long video-making workshop. Learning to make videos about their lives becomes a creative healing process for these young men and women, aged 19-24.
Continue readingLongshots
When Longshots premiered in 1994, the film was recognized as being at the forefront of a whole new movement of putting filmmaking into the hands of documentary subjects.
Continue readingWhen Two Won’t Do
When Two Won’t Do takes viewers on an intimate road trip across North America – from a polyamory conference in the Catskills, a swingers’ convention in Las Vegas, to long-term multipartner families in California.
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