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Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A journey of discovery into how an American artist and a Canadian artist with a father and son generation gap team up to revive the ancient Japanese woodcut printing by juxtaposing traditional art with pop culture icons such as Super Mario and Pokémon. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs International Documentary Festival**. *"UKIYO-E HEROES is a beautiful film about people who strive to make beautiful things, and that lesson resonates regardless...
Publisher
Fighting Chance Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A two-year journey exploring the lives of Canadians in every province and territory who have made the choice to disconnect. Life Off Grid is a film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewable energy, with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the canvas of dance and choreography has shifted to encompass a multitude of meanings, but it always starts with one brave artistic voice and a calling - to bring a world, born from nothing, to the stage. Apart from the work itself, it is the fragile, ephemeral quality of dance that creates a bond of intimacy between a performer and the viewer. In this age of YouTube, the very act of presenting live bodies in a performance...
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The girl next door, having coffee, lunch with a friend, shopping, unaware she is becoming an obsession. She has been chosen. A young woman awakes to find herself imprisoned in a serial killer’s basement. She is not the first to be entrapped in this diabolical torture chamber. She is not the first to captivate his perverse affection, Herman has been searching for the perfect girl, but all he’s collected are pieces – a chunk of hair; a severed...
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At the far-flung edge of Canada’s boreal forest, outside the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, Yukon, a handful of unlikely farmers are growing everything from snow-covered Brussels sprouts to apples. These modern-day agrarians have carved out small patches of fertile soil in an otherwise unforgiving expanse of isolated wilderness to make a living and a life. Over the course of a year, Dawson filmmaker David Curtis follows these resilient, unassuming...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Vincent, a successful forty-something, is about to become a father for the first time. His sister invites him to a dinner party at her beautiful apartment in Paris, with her academic husband and his childhood friend.. Whilst waiting for Anna, his stylish younger spouse who is always running late, his cohorts gleefully bombard him with questions on his fast approaching fatherhood. But when his hosts ask Vincent what name he has chosen for his future...
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Watch this film ticket-free through February 19, 2024 and discuss the film with others on the [Big Movie Watch discussion board]( https://lib.kanopy.com/bigmoviewatch/join-the-discussion/?utm_medium=web&utm_source=[…]=big_movie_watch&utm_content=discussionboard_titledescription). How do you find lasting love in today’s world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr....
9) Yellow fella
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Yellow Fella is a portrait of Tom E. Lewis who as a young man in 1978 was chosen by director Fred Schepisi to star in The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own - a restless young man of mixed heritage, struggling between two cultures to find his own identity. Tom's mother is an Indigenous woman from southern Arnhem Land who was working as a station hand and cook when she met Tom's father, a...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe, swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry...
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