Recent videos of interest

Youth

• 8th fire
  A provocative, high-energy journey through Aboriginal country showing why we need to fix Canada's 500 year-old relationship with Indigenous peoples -- a relationship mired in colonialism, conflict and denial. Episode 1 - INDIGENOUS IN THE CITY . Episode 2 - IT'S TIME . Episode 3 - WHOSE LAND IS IT ANYWAY? Episode 4 - AT THE CROSSROADS.
• Animania
  “Explores Japanese anime and teens' interest in it as a hobby.”
• Attention féministes!
  [French version with option English subtitles]. Portrait de jeunes feministes contemporaines. A une epoque ou on a declare la mort des ideologies, ces jeunes croient encore en un monde meilleur! A travers leur engagement personnel et social, nous decouvrons le nouveau visage du feminisme, celui des filles et des gars des generations X et Y. Un mouvement dynamique, un mode d’action a la fois drole, pertinent, sexy et combatif, demontrant qu'il y a encore plein de manieres de revendiquer l'egalite.
• Beyond good and evil: children, media and violent times
  ....[E]xposes how the media has been used to earn public support for the U.S.-led military campaign against Iraq. ... Examines how the 'good and evil' rhetoric, in both the entertainment and the news media, has helped children to dehumanize the enemies, justify their killing and treat the suffering of innocent civilians as necessary sacrifice.
• Bombay calling
  DVD only. Filmmakers Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal dive into the bustling world of late nights, long hours and hard partying. The result is a compelling insider's look at youth culture in India, and a growing number of young people who choose to follow the American dream...Indian style.
• Carts of Darkness
  In the community of North Vancouver, local bottle collectors have turned the act of binning into a thriving subculture of shopping cart racing. Murray Siple, a former snowboarder and sport film director injured in a serious car accident ten years ago, returns to filmmaking to capture their story.
• China heavyweight
  Profiles the ever-changing Chinese economic landscape through the view of the sport of boxing. Filmmaker Yung Chang follows boxing coach Qi Moxiang as he travels across China's Sichuan province recruiting young fighting talent from impoverished farms and villages. Selected boys and girls are taken to national training centers in hopes of becoming Olympic heroes, but can they leave their families behind to become boxing's finest?
• Consuming kids : the commercialization of childhood
  Interviews with health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders. Focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world.
• Flipping the world: drugs through a blue lens
  An honest look at the world of youth and drug addiction as told by those who have been there. Seven culturally diverse high school students meet with members of the Odd Squad – Vancouver police officers who, since 1998, have been filming people addicted to drugs.
• Girls Rock!
  At RocknRoll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it's OK to sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and that 'it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are'.
• Positive youth
  Looks at the daily lives of four HIV infected or affected young men and women.
• Reservation soldiers
  “Filmed over several years, Reservation Soldiers focuses on the relationship between the Canadian military and aboriginal youth.“
• Richard Cardinal: cry from a diary of a Métis child
  Original version date: 1986. A moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide at 17, in 1984. Removed from his home at age 4 because of family problems, he was then moved between 28 foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta for the next 13 years. His diary upon which this film is based is a sad legacy of a troubled youth, his life and death, and Alberta's child welfare system. His death prompted an inquiry into and reform of Alberta's child welfare system.
• Rize
  A documentary portrayal of inner city youth in Los Angeles, Calif. who though surrounded by drug addiction, gangs and impoverishment, have developed a unique style of dance that evolves on a daily basis.
• Staying alive: [Canada's controversial safe injection site]
  'Insite', located in Vancouver's notorious downtown eastside, has been controversial since it first opened its doors in 2003. An exemption from federal drug laws was granted to allow addicts to bring their drugs onto the premises and inject them; Insite provides clean needles and medical supervision.
• Surviving :) the teenage brain
  This Nature of Things documentary delves deep into the science of the teenage brain to discover evolution's masterpiece. The film combines cutting-edge scientific research, YouTube clips of outrageous teen behaviour and a graphic-novel approach to reveal new research on the immense power and potential of the teen brain. Find out how these all-important years nurture the judgment, adaptation and innovation that ensure the survival of the species.
• The downside of high
  Tells the stories of three young people from British Columbia who believe - along with their doctors - that their mental illness was triggered by marijuana use. Modern growing techniques have dramatically increased the amount of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana - ramping up the threat to the developing teenage brain.
• The world before her
  In the lobby of a modest Bombay hotel, 20 young women from across India arrive for an intense, month-long beauty boot camp. They are the hand-picked contestants for the Miss India pageant, the ultimate glamour event in a country that has gone mad for beauty contests. Winning the coveted title means instant stardom, a lucrative career path and, for some girls, freedom from the constraints of a patriarchal society. But as the popularity of pageants has exploded, so have the controversies surrounding them.
• They think I'm Chinese / On me prend pour une chinoise!
  DVD only. A journey into the inner world of five adopted teenage girls. Girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children adopted in Quebec in the 1990s are now in their teens. Nicole Giguère focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebeckers experience their differences? Includes original French version and French version with subtitles.
• Tiara
  dvd only.Are beauty pageants on the radar of today's young women? Tiara discovers that they certainly are in Asian communities in Canada. Tiara explores the connection between the desires of young women from the Chinese, Filipino and South Asian communities for validation of their appearance in the midst of popular media's narrow representation of beauty.
• Turning away
  Turning Away is not another 'day in the life of a street kid'. Instead, it is a thorough examination of why young people end up on the street, what keeps them there and what it takes to escape. We follow the subjects over time and we will see how they deal with what most people would consider the simplest challenges.
• Two spirits
  Fred Martinez was a [young] nádleehí, or a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, who was murdered in a hate crime at the age of sixteen. Discusses the traditional Native American perspective on gender and sexuality and the need for a balanced interrelationship between the feminine and masculine.
• Why quilts matter : history, art and politics
  A nine-part television series on the history, significance, and culture of quilts. Episode 1. Quilts 101 : antique and contemporary quilts (26:30) -- Episode 2. Quilts bring history alive (26:47) -- Episode 3. The quilt marketplace (26:47) -- Episode 4. What is art ?(25:50) -- Episode 5. Gee's Bend: the most famous quilts in America? (26:35) -- Episode 6. How quilts have been viewed and collected (25:50) -- Episode 7. Empowering women one quilt at a time (26:04) -- Episode 8. Quilt nation : 20,000,000 and counting ...