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Motto: Making Magic and Sharing Secrets

Motto: Making Magic and Sharing Secrets

Every user who experiences Motto—reading the story, contributing their clips—nourishes its archive of material: the library of wiggling toes and ravishing trash, "things that are soft" and "things that are square."

I Am Skylar: Two Years Later

I Am Skylar: Two Years Later

The documentary I Am Skylar was filmed just before Skylar reached puberty. She is now 15 years old. I asked her about her life since the production was completed.

High Wire: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Historic Decision

High Wire: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Historic Decision

The purpose of the film is not to preach to the choir, or to experts, but to raise questions in the viewer’s mind.

The Song and the Sorrow: A Journey into Mental Health and Music

The Song and the Sorrow: A Journey into Mental Health and Music

As we grapple with a surreal and shifting new isolated reality, The Song and the Sorrow, with its contemplation of mental health, resonates in its message.

Unarmed Verses : Where Have All the People Gone?

Unarmed Verses : Where Have All the People Gone?

What do we carry forward into the next 10 months of the year, after sharing experiences and stories from the Black diaspora through music, books, art exhibitions, workshops, dance, talk-back forums, cinema and theatre?

Director’s Notes: Robert Moberg and Way of the Hunter

Director’s Notes: Robert Moberg and Way of the Hunter

I grew up in the 1960s in rural Alberta, on a small farm near the town of Rocky Mountain House. My father had to provide for a large family of four adults and seven kids, and hunting in the nearby woods was a large part of how he did it.

The First Indigenous-made Film I Ever Saw

The First Indigenous-made Film I Ever Saw

The very first Indigenous-made film I saw was Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child by Alanis Obomsawin, and it was the first time I felt that a filmmaker could understand Indigenous social-political issues.