Hookers on Davie
1984 Dir: Janis Cole and Holly Dale
On the shelves at: HQ150 .V3 H66 1984 (1st floor Media)
Through mutual cooperation and support, the male, female, transvestite and transsexual prostitutes on Vancouver’s Davie Street have maintained a “pimp free” work environment. With their subjects’ trust and participation, filmmakers Janis Cole and Holly Dale build a portrayal of their lives.
Encounters at the end of the world
2008 Dir: Werner Herzog
On the shelves at: G860 .E53 2008 (1st floor Media)
Herzog profiles the South Pole’s unique residents and their strange, harsh environment at the bottom of the world.
Cesna7em, the city before the city
2017 Dir: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers*
Documentary; trailer
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“Commemorates the resolution of a dramatic and compelling moment in the history of this place now known as metro Vancouver, British Columbia. In late 2011, the Musqueam First Nation learned that a 108-unit condo development was being planned at one of their ancestral village sites without prior consultation with the nation.”
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful
2015 Dir: Nettie Wild
Documentary; trailer
Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award, Hot Docs 2016
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“…a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it. Some hunt on the land. Some mine it. They all love it. Set deep in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, Konelïne captures beauty and complexity as one of Canada’s vast wildernesses undergoes irrevocable change.”
Blockade
2007 Dir: Nettie Wild
Documentary; trailer
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On the shelves at: E99.K55 B556 2007 (1st floor Media)
“For most of us, Native land claims and logging issues fuel political and moral debates. To the people of the Gitksan reserve of Gitwangak and the white village of Kitwanga, these are issues worth fighting for.”
The Anthropologist
2015 Dir: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Documentary; trailer
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“At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularized cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Uniquely revealed from their daughters’ perspectives, Mead and Crate demonstrate a fascination with how societies are forced to negotiate the disruption of their traditional ways of life, whether through encounters with the outside world or the unprecedented change wrought by melting permafrost, receding glaciers and rising tides.”
The Linguists
2007 Dir: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Documentary; trailer
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“Joins David Harrison and Gregory Anderson, scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. In Siberia, India and Bolivia, David and Greg’s resolve is tested by the very forces stifling languages: institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest. The scientists must overcome their own fears and preconceived notions to draw speakers from decades of silence. Their journey takes them deep into the heart of the cultures, knowledge, and communities at stake.”
Family Fundamentals
2004 Dir: Arthur Wong
On the shelves at: HQ759.9145 F365 2004 (1st floor Media)
Arthur Dong interviews families where religiously conservative Christian parents oppose homosexuality despite having homosexual children.
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