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In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays. Her success enraged her writer husband and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books were banned and […]

shalan joundry is an L’nu (Mi’kmaw)/European multi-disciplinary storyteller working in many mediums. She is a poet, playwright, actor, podcast producer, as well as emerging filmmaker. Having worked as a professional oral storyteller for over two decades, shalan has been focused on professional theatre and dance as a writer, director, producer or performer under her company, […]

Documentary film My Own Normal, directed by Alexander Freeman, shares his personal story as he navigates fatherhood, relationship, family conflict, and working as a filmmaker while living with cerebral palsy. This autobiographical film take us inside the familiar life of any new father, from the struggles of self doubt to the joy of father-daughter playtime. And it […]

Director Michael Lippert’s homage to the great “unknown” jazz legend, Carol Sloane doesn’t just introduce you to someone you may not have known, it makes you fall in love with her. And jazz. It makes you wonder why you don’t know her name and forces you to consider the possibility that out there, in the […]

The Power of Film is a six-part series hosted and curated by renowned UCLA professor emeritus, founding chair of UCLA’s Film and Television Producers Program, and one of the founders of the UCLA Film Archive, Howard Suber. Each 40-minute episode in The Power of Film dives deep into the art of storytelling by examining the […]

In the spring of 2019, before anyone had heard of COVID-19, filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy began investigating the global measles epidemic. He began filming a documentary with top public health officials—including Tony Fauci, Paul Offit, and Peter Hotez—and compiling rare interviews with anti-vaccine activists—like Robert Kennedy, Jr., Andrew Wakefield, and Del Bigtree—who were persuading parents […]

Songs of Earth (Fedrelandet) is a majestic symphony of sight and sound with filmmaker Margreth Olin’s 85-year-old father at its center. Acclaimed director Olin spends a year with her father Jørgen a lifelong trekker who guides us through Norway’s most spectacular valley — the place he grew up and where generations have been living alongside […]

Homecoming (Máhccan), from acclaimed documentarians Suvi West and Anssi Kömi, is slated to World Premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival running September 7-17 as part of the TIFF Docs section. The film follows Sámi filmmakers West and Kömi as they observe and help assist in the return of Sámi cultural artifacts, which hold […]

In response to a diversity directive from city hall, Rein Wolfs, the new director of Amsterdam’s preeminent museum of modern art, the Stedelijk, and his team navigate a path that snakes between integrity and opportunism, while attempting to correct a history of exclusion and underrepresentation. Bringing her camera inside an institution that has exhibited predominately […]

In the Central African Republic, a Chinese construction manager and a central African laborer areassigned to construct a sparkling new bank. A looming civil war, poverty, the covid-19 pandemic,attempted suicide all come into play as the two men face unexpected twists that threaten their plans for a better life. Eat Bitter, the documentary film following […]