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Can Documentary Films Be Catalysts For Change?

Liz Marshall | Posted 05.28.2013 | Canada
Read More: Documentary, Documentaries, Documentary Film, Animal Rights, Documentary Change, The Ghost in the Machine, Canada News
Liz Marshall

I'm often asked: Do you really believe in change? And while I acknowledge that it's hard to be hopeful sometimes, I do, undeniably, believe that a better world is always possible. This is where documentaries play a significant cultural sociopolitical role. They are the narratives of our times.

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Roméo Dallaire's Fight to Make Child Soldiers an Oxymoron

Adam Moscoe | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Human Rights, Armed Conflict, Child Soldiers, Canada, Documentary, Film, Fight Like Soldiers, Romeo Dallaire, Canada Impact News
Adam Moscoe

Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children humanizes the global struggle to end the use of children in armed conflict. Pushing aside the morass of international norms and NGO reports -- important and useful as they are -- Dallaire asks a simple yet harrowing question: how is it that we can go "apeshit" -- to use his word -- when our own children's rights are violated, but passively accept the reality of child soldiers throughout the world?

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Where Is The Love In Social Struggle?

Jarrah Hodge | Posted 05.02.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Environmentalism, Documentary, Filmmaking, Bc, Velcrow Ripper, Fierce Light Trilogy, Occupy Love, Protest, Environment, Social Activism, Idle No More, Video, Canada British Columbia News
Jarrah Hodge

When B.C. filmmaker Velcrow Ripper started making Occupy Love in 2009, some of his activist friends weren't sure what to make of his questions. How can the crises we're facing socially, economically and environmentally become - of all things - a love story? But as he continued to film social movements from the Arab Spring to the European Summer, Occupy Wall Street and environmental movements, he started seeing a shift, with more and more people responding: "Of course it's a love story."

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Finding Community in Peru

Elia Saikaly | Posted 09.24.2012 | Canada Travel
Read More: Elia-Saikaly, Documentary, Finding Life, Spanish, Adventure, Travel, Peru, Travel Peru, Finding Life Travel, Peru Travel, Travel Finding Life, Canada Travel News
Elia Saikaly

Since my departure from Canada five days ago, I've flown from Lima to Cusco, met up and spent time with my friend's in Cusco, rented a 4x4, explored various remote regions in the Sacred Valley, developed the FindingLife 2014 student initiative, paragliding, mountain biking and canyoning were all part of the agenda.

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Tar Trek: New Short Film Offers a Teenage Take on the Alberta Tar Sands

Heather Libby | Posted 11.27.2011 | Canada
Read More: Energy, Oil Sands, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Fort Mcmurray, Green News, Documentary, Alberta Oil Sands, Canada News
Heather Libby

When we talk about the Alberta tar sands, a lot of phrases come to mind. "Summer vacation spot" is generally not one of them.

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