Editor
In a world of fixed positions and prescribed roles, expanding the definition of gender requires the courage to dive deep into understanding and acceptance. Written and directed by Christina Willings, Beauty explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human. Claiming your own sense of gender when everything around you insists that you comply and conform can be challenging, and sometimes scary—but family and friends are there to help. Free-flowing animated elements, ranging from images of octopuses to astronauts, draw together the kids’ shared experiences in beautifully rendered fantasias that celebrate the power of imagination and the flourishing force of self-determination. Playful, goofy, loving and brave, each of these remarkable young people—including Ladner, B.C.’s transgender advocate Tru Wilson—have found their own way to break free and show the world what it really means to be your true self.
Editor
Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.
Editor
Rosie Ming, una joven poeta canadiense, es invitada a tocar en un Festival de Poesía en Shiraz, Irán, pero ella preferiría estar en París. Ella vive en casa con sus abuelos chinos sobre protectores y nunca ha estado en ningún lado sola. Una vez en Irán, se encuentra en compañía de poetas y persas, todos los que cuentan historias que la obligan a confrontar su pasado; el padre iraní que ella asumió la abandonó y la naturaleza de la poesía misma. Se trata de construir puentes entre divisiones culturales y generacionales. Se trata de ser curioso. Mantenerse abierto. Y encontrar tu propia voz a través de la magia de la poesía. Rosie emprende un viaje involuntario de perdón, reconciliación y quizás, sobre todo, comprensión, al conocer el pasado de su padre, su propia identidad cultural y su responsabilidad con respecto a ella.
Director
Un hombre obsesionado con las prostitutas descubre que el amor es mucho más caro que el sexo. Una mirada divertida en el mundo de la prostitución desde el punto de vista del cliente.
Writer
Un hombre obsesionado con las prostitutas descubre que el amor es mucho más caro que el sexo. Una mirada divertida en el mundo de la prostitución desde el punto de vista del cliente.
Editor
Corto de animación que explora la construcción del ferrocarril intercontinental de Canada.
Editor
An enigmatic Japanese woman, abandoned by her wealthy Chinese husband in a remote Pacific Northwest village, becomes entwined in the lives of two rugged locals.
Art Direction
Butch, a handsome, but naive baby butch, is compelled by the Queen to seek out and bring back her purlined "Koilos" the source of all pleasures and the key to order and harmony on her island. As an additional inducement, the Queen holds out to Butch, the promised return of the hostaged Claudia, a beautiful and feisty femme, who is not about to sit idly by awaiting rescue!. Under the Queen's wrathful gaze, tops are bottomed, tranny sailors seduce pirate Captains, Kings are Mothers and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop
Editor
Butch, a handsome, but naive baby butch, is compelled by the Queen to seek out and bring back her purlined "Koilos" the source of all pleasures and the key to order and harmony on her island. As an additional inducement, the Queen holds out to Butch, the promised return of the hostaged Claudia, a beautiful and feisty femme, who is not about to sit idly by awaiting rescue!. Under the Queen's wrathful gaze, tops are bottomed, tranny sailors seduce pirate Captains, Kings are Mothers and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop
Producer
Butch, a handsome, but naive baby butch, is compelled by the Queen to seek out and bring back her purlined "Koilos" the source of all pleasures and the key to order and harmony on her island. As an additional inducement, the Queen holds out to Butch, the promised return of the hostaged Claudia, a beautiful and feisty femme, who is not about to sit idly by awaiting rescue!. Under the Queen's wrathful gaze, tops are bottomed, tranny sailors seduce pirate Captains, Kings are Mothers and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop
Screenplay
Butch, a handsome, but naive baby butch, is compelled by the Queen to seek out and bring back her purlined "Koilos" the source of all pleasures and the key to order and harmony on her island. As an additional inducement, the Queen holds out to Butch, the promised return of the hostaged Claudia, a beautiful and feisty femme, who is not about to sit idly by awaiting rescue!. Under the Queen's wrathful gaze, tops are bottomed, tranny sailors seduce pirate Captains, Kings are Mothers and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop
Director
Butch, a handsome, but naive baby butch, is compelled by the Queen to seek out and bring back her purlined "Koilos" the source of all pleasures and the key to order and harmony on her island. As an additional inducement, the Queen holds out to Butch, the promised return of the hostaged Claudia, a beautiful and feisty femme, who is not about to sit idly by awaiting rescue!. Under the Queen's wrathful gaze, tops are bottomed, tranny sailors seduce pirate Captains, Kings are Mothers and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop
Editor
In this animated short, a young girl and her father move from China to Canada, bringing only their Chinese violin along for the journey. As they face the challenge of starting fresh in a new place, the music of the violin connects them to the life they left behind and guides the girl towards a musical future.
Editor
This personal documentary is the story of Teresa Marshall, who grew up on a British Columbia ranch. Every child needs a demon, and Teresa took battle against rattlesnakes. In the dry interior of B.C., the south Okanagan and Similkameen valleys form the bio-region known as Canada's "pocket desert." As settlers' dreams of creating an agricultural Eden erase fragile desert lands that support a breathtaking array of wild species, the narrator and her snake-hunting neighbours are forced to examine their environmental attitudes.
Director
Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!, Ileana Pietrobruno's triumph of mid-vaginal modernism masterfully confronts the surreal nature of societal attitudes towards the female body. Beautifully shot at Riverview Hospital (formerly an insane asylum), the film follows the journey of Scheherazade, a young model attempting to insulate herself from paternalistic and sinister medicalization throught the re-telling of tabloid tales. Replete with lesbians, anorexics, necrophillic undertones and a deluge of menstrual blood, Pietrobruno's febrile fable contains enough raw passion to ignite the sensiblities of even the most faded feminists.
Editor
The director of the underground feature "Cat Swallows Parakeet And Speaks!" turns her eye for stunning metaphoric imagery to the myth of Narcissus.
Producer
The director of the underground feature "Cat Swallows Parakeet And Speaks!" turns her eye for stunning metaphoric imagery to the myth of Narcissus.
Writer
The director of the underground feature "Cat Swallows Parakeet And Speaks!" turns her eye for stunning metaphoric imagery to the myth of Narcissus.
Director
The director of the underground feature "Cat Swallows Parakeet And Speaks!" turns her eye for stunning metaphoric imagery to the myth of Narcissus.
