Nominee - Ted Rogers “Best Feature Length Documentary” - 2024 Canadian Screen Awards
Theatrical Starts May 12, 2023
2023 - DENMARK/ CANADA/ GREENLAND - ENGLISH/ DANISH/ KALAALLISUT, INUKTITUT - 92 MINUTES
A FILM BY LIN ALLUNA
Aaju Peter is a force of nature. She is a renowned Greenlandic Inuit lawyer, an activist, who defends the human rights of indigenous peoples of the Arctic, and the feirce protector of her ancestral lands. She works to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice, and deploys her effusive spirit and illuminating wit to provoke self-examination and personal responsibility among Westerners for imposing their colonial ways. As Aaju launches an effort to establish an indigenous forum at the European Union, she also embarks upon a complex and deeply personal journey to mend her own wounds, including the unexpected passing of her youngest son.
Theatrical starts December 16, 2022
CANADA - 2022 - ENGLISH - 103 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY JACQUELYN MILLS
Hot Docs 2022 - Winner – Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award
Hot Docs 2022 - Winner – The Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world.
The Sadies perform songs from their new record COLDER STREAMS in an impromptu concert which could possibly be their last.
2014 - COLOUR - CANADA - 88 MINUTES
A FILM BY JODY SHAPIRO
"Burt's Buzz" takes an intimate look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burt's Bees, exploring his fascinating and unique life. Exposing the collision between business and personal values, the film is a compelling and fascinating portrait of this highly idiosyncratic pioneer, and a revealing study of what it means to be a living icon.
2019 - CANADA - 79 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY ALBERT NERENBERG AND NIK SHEEHAN
From antiquity’s first fart joke to the ubiquitous whoopee cushion, the act of flatus both amuses and dismays... and now may contribute to civilization’s demise. Who Farted? is a frightening, illuminating, and funny journey through the absurd reality of 21st Century human survival.
1985 - CANADA - COLOUR - 60 MINUTES
A FILM BY NIK SHEEHAN
The first Canadian film on the subject of AIDS. In 1985-86 it was featured in festivals and theatres around the world. "No Sad Songs" attracted much critical attention for its sardonic dramatic performances which are interwoven throughout the documentary footage. The film centres on Jim Black, 37, and his views on the premature death in store for him. Catherine Hunt, who has a brother in the U.S. with the illness, speaks with remarkable emotion of the values such a crisis brings out in families and friends.
CANADA – 2008 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY ASTRA TAYLOR
FEATURING CORNEL WEST, PETER SINGER, SLAVOJ ZIZEK, JUDITH BUTLER, AVITAL RONELL, MICHAEL HARDT, ANTHONY APPIAH AND MARTHA NUSSBAUM.
EXAMINED LIFE takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us.