Betsy Carson

Humorous and often poignant accounts of gay bars as important venues for community, organizing, sex, and safety. This film reveals the threat to queer culture of our disappearing social spaces.

Bevel Up is an educational film designed to give students and instructors access to the experience of health care practitioners who work with the drug-using population of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Produced by the same street nurses who work with these users on a daily basis, the film contains invaluable knowledge that can't be found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals.

Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA and Ayahuasca) and their previously established medicinal potential. Strictly focusing on the science and medicinal properties of these drugs, Neurons to Nirvana looks into why our society has created such a social and political bias against even allowing research to continue the exploration of any possible positive effects they can present in treating some of today's most challenging afflictions.

In sixteen chapters containing four and a half hours of materials, Tracks Across Sand offers a unique chance to travel to the edge of the Kalahari, to a struggle for indigenous rights, and into the heart of contemporary South Africa. Driven from their lands, forced into a life of destitution, and denied the right even to speak their own languages, the ‡Khomani San fight for their heritage. Culled from over 130 hours of video recorded between 1996 and 2010, Tracks presents a unique record of the ‡Khomani San, bringing together the story of Africa's first Bushman claim, from preparation through to ten years after the claim was granted. Seen through the eyes and told in the words of the ‡Khomani San themselves, this film chronicles the struggle for indigenous rights by a people who are defying a history that has attempted and failed to make them disappear.

After an on-set incident lands their leading lady in the hospital, a dysfunctional movie crew is forced into a group therapy session where they're expected to sort out their issues and get back to work. Or else.

세계 최고의 석학들과 떠나는 인류문명 오디세이. 자원고갈과 경제위기라는 위기에 처한 인류는 과연 또 다른 돌파구를 찾을 수 있을까? 그 동안 인류 역사에서 진보라고 규정했던 일들은 때로 역효과를 낳았다. 영화는 세계적으로 유명한 학자들과 활동가들, 금융전문가와 과학자들의 인터뷰를 통해 인류가 진보라는 이름으로 자행한 문명 파괴를 고발하며, 이를 극복하기 위한 노력 역시 함께 비춰준다. 로널드 라이트의 베스트셀러 『진보의 함정』을 원작으로 문명과 진보의 역사를 탐구하는 흥미롭고 지적인 여행. 미국영화의 거장 마틴 스콜세지가 제작에 참여하였다. (2012년 제9회 서울환경영화제)

Star Wars is no longer science fiction The prospect of Earth being ruled from space is no longer science-fiction. The dream of the original Dr. Strangelove, Wernher von Braun (from Nazi rocket-scientist to NASA director) has survived every US administration since WW2 and is coming to life. Today the technology exists to weaponize space, a massive American industry thrives, and nations are maneuvering for advantage. PAX AMERICANA tackles this pivotal moment. Are war machines already orbiting Earth? Can treaties keep space weapons-free? Must the World capitulate to one super-cop on the global beat? With startling archival footage and unprecedented access to US Air Force Space Command, this elegant, forceful documentary reveals the state of play through generals, space-policy analysts, politicians, diplomats, peace activists, and hawks.

A look at the natural beauty and environmental crisis surrounding the Great Lakes.

Captures the exciting movement of Spiritual Activism that is exploding around the planet, and the powerful personalities who are igniting it.

Dean Wilson may be Canada’s most powerful junkie. He shoots heroin in Vancouver’s downtown Eastside and strategizes with federal health policy advisors. He is the president of a network of street-level drug users demanding that Vancouver open North America’s first safe injection site – the most controversial step of a daring new drug strategy. Users, residents, activists and police clash while Dean struggles to shake his addiction and discovers an unlikely ally in Vancouver’s conservative mayor.

When Lulu receives an e-mail from high school friend Duffy, she makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to visit her old pal. Taking her gay friend Fred, the two drive from New York to Maine, where the surprised Duffy welcomes them into her home. In the days that follow all three of them make unexpected connections, even as Lulu begins to suspect that Duffy may be hiding something from her.

In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising.

In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising.

"Blockade" takes place in the mountains and valleys of northern British Columbia, at the heart of the boldest aboriginal land claims case to challenge the white history of Canada. The Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs claim that everything within 22,000 square miles, including the trees, is rightfully theirs.