PARENTS TRANSGENRES est un documentaire qui parle de l’amour, de la vie et des enfants après une transition de genre. Le film partage les difficultés et les forces de plusieurs femmes et hommes transgenres naviguant différents stades de leur vie parentale: de la grossesse à…
People with learning disabilities speak about people's attitudes to them. What do we mean when we say "mentally handicapped"? Historically, people with learning disabilities have been seen as demons, ogres, monsters or helpless objects of pity. The programme asks if any of these attitudes…
Mount Lawrence follows filmmaker Chandler Wild as he embarks on a journey to reconnect with his adventure-seeking and outdoor-loving father, who committed suicide years before. Chandler sets off on a 6,708 mile bicycle journey from NYC to the end of the road in Alaska, where he'll…
— For Home Use Only — A Moving Images Production The Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives…
— For Home Use Only — A film by Polly Bennell and Andrea Sarris This film examines the lives and deaths of Maine author Helen Nearing and her husband, Scott, who were best known for their book about homesteading practices called "Living the Good Life". More than a biography,…
The skilled restoration of books damaged by floods in Florence. Florence - The Restoration of Books: Shows the enormous task of restoring many thousands of manuscripts and priceless rare books which had been immersed in the Florence floods of 1967. The explanatory narration is by the bookbinder, Peter…
Puffin Patrol a 60-minute documentary for CBC Television’s The Nature of Things that explores the life of puffins from eastern Newfoundland, to remote locations in Maine and Wales. The documentary examines puffin’s unique migration patterns, feeding habits, navigational patterns, and decreasing…
Father Joseph established Haiti’s largest micro-credit bank for the poor (Fonkoze), which has given literacy training and financial opportunity to hundreds of thousands of peasant women and their families. He also founded a 700-student K-14 school, an orphanage, a clean water project, a reforestation…
A documentary about a young man named Zimbabwe Davies, focusing on his early years in Oakland, California's foster care system. On his journey, love is lost and found and tragedy seems to follow closely. Finally, through several beautiful examples of community and of family in its many forms,…
In an intimate and deeply personal documentary, immigrant Latino fathers across the U.S. recount the impact of their children’s coming out. Through raw, heartfelt testimonies, these families delve deeply into issues of immigration, prejudice, and isolation, while thoughtfully asking questions of…
A film by Mia Donovan (Inside Lara Roxx). DEPROGRAMMED chronicles Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His practice of ‘deprogramming’, also known as ‘reverse brainwashing’, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground…
Family Foibles is a series of five half-hour documentaries that examine contemporary Australian families. Each story revolves around a family confronting a problem. These range from the relatively benign issue of omission in the telling of a family history to domestic violence and the threat of family…
