Media for social change

This film gives context to the short films that Lucerne School students made about the local history of the Japanese Can...

Artist Tsuneko Kokubo (Koko) shares the story of her childhood through words and dance - though born in Steveston, she l...

Gail Swanson, President of the Kyowakai Society (Living together peacefully) was born in New Denver. She shares her stor...

Kay Takahara shares her story of growing up in Cumberland, her family’s relocation to the interior of BC during WWII a...

Amy Mori shares stories of growing up in Maple Ridge BC, her family’s forced relocation to the interior during WWII, a...

Nobby Hayashi shares stories of growing up on Powell Street before WWII and the relocation to internment camps in New De...

A digital video documenting May Day in New Denver, a tradition that showcases diversity & celebrates community members....

An animated digital story based on writings by Japanese Canadian Muriel Kitagawa's book 'Letters to Wes'. ...

A digital short celebrating the culinary plant contributions of Japanese Canadians to the community of New Denver....

A farcical stop-motion animation made out of paper cut-outs about the experience of the internment through the lens of a...

Students showcase the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre along with the Kohan Reflection Garden that stand in New Denver ...

Through interviews with elder and former internee, Nobby Hayashi, students share his story and the resilience that Japan...

Borrowing the words of Mrs. Pauli Inose from 'A Path of Leaves', students created this claymation to reflect the Japanes...

Through this film, students honour the New Denver Kyowakai Society (Peacefully Working Together) for their resilience an...

Students from Lucerne Secondary School reflect through their B&W film on the wrongful internment of Japanese Canadians d...

Students at Lucerne school 'speak out' about how they felt when they learned about the Japanese Canadian internment that...

A student film about what conditions were like when Japanese Canadians were relocated to internment camps in New Denver ...

A series of interviews with Japanese Canadians still living in New Denver BC that delivers a poignant message. ...

A short stop-motion video based on a haiku written by Mrs. Chie Kamagaya created by students at Lucerne Secondary School...

Students showcase the racial discrimination against the Japanese Canadians during WWII in this film in hopes of it not h...

Bracha Rosenblum was asked many times if she went back to her roots and always said no.  Her son convinced her to visit...

This film was created during the 2010 CIVICUS Conference held in Montreal in August....

Eva Kuper was born in 1940 in Warsaw, Poland.  When she was a baby, she and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghet...

One of the symptoms of the resurgent interest in maintaining the CPA in Sudan is Sudan 365, A Beat for Peace....

This is the day I joined a team of World Vision staff on one of their vaccination programs. We went to Lurcuk Payam in T...

Sudan is holding elections. With Omar Al Bashir, an indicted war criminal assured of victory, how free, fair and represe...

This video employs short clips from life story interviews done withHolocaust survivors who have acted as educators in Mo...

A lamentable tragedy mixed full of pleasant mirth, Yellow Cake is the latest animated epic by Ottawa animator Nick Cross...

Sari Greenberg was born in Poland on November 25th, 1939.  She told her story....

Manuel Cohen was born in 1924 in Montreal.  He, and a life-long friend who is still alive, Harry Heit, were born in tha...

Manuel Cohen was born and raised in Montreal and his father had been born in Poland. In 1939 Manuel’s father got to Po...

The Batory Ship or How Manuel found out what happened to his fatherManuel Cohen was born in 1924 in Montreal to a Jewish...

Everyone has an intriguing life story to tell. We have all experienced significant moments that alter the course of our ...

Sudan is at a crossroads. Again. January 9, 2010 marked the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace ...

This is Alberto Kuol Kuol Makuach’s story. During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed over a dozen Souther...

'Life in the Open Prison' is a short documentary produced by 11 students from St-George's High School in Montreal, Quebe...

During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed about a dozen Southern Sudanese men and women. This is Rose Achan...

Un animation qui utilise l'image d'une arbre comme symbol pour illustrer une nouvelle vision du Canada dans le monde. Ce...

During the next Canadian federal election, Canadians have several important questions about Canada's role in the world. ...

Toronto youth share their ideas and visions for Canada's role in the world....

Toronto youth share their personal reasons for why they care about Canada’s role in the world and how it affects their...

This video documents the situation in the starvation zone of Southern Sudan, in Africa....

This video was done to raise awareness of the medical needs in Southern Sudan....

W.E.E.P. (Women's Educational Empowerment Project) for Southern Sudan is a non-profit organization dedicated to the bett...

Natalie Pendergast presents the work of Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, which relates to her family history, through va...

Slavery still exists.  It is going strong in your city and mine! On August 1, 2009 I will run 500 miles in chains to en...

 Half a world away from the December 2008-January 2009 conflict in the Gaza strip, Montreal's large Arab and Jewish com...

Sara, a student from Kenitra, Morocco talks about what she would like to see changed in the world....

In the 1940's, future Nobel Peace Prize recepient Joseph Rotblat took a stand against nuclear weapons. Where does the nu...

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs was founded in 1957 in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada....

In the 1940s, Joseph Rotblat walke away from the Manhattan Project, no longer believing nuclear weapons were necessary t...

The Cold War is long over, but what threat do we still face from nuclear weapons?...

United States President Barack Obama is the first president to envision a world without nuclear weapons. With thousands ...

SPLA entry to Jub ...

SPLA entry to Juba for the first time sigifying the end 21 years military confrontation between north and south of Suda....

In May of 2008, renewed heavy fighting along the border between north and south Sudan was in full force. Dan Nolan, Al J...

 A trailer by filmmaker Magnus Isacsson for a proposed documentary film, contrasting the writings of Orwell and Huxley ...

Author Varda Burstyn speaks about the impact of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in todays terms....

Author Varda Burstyn speaks about the impact of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World on the environment....

Author Varda Burstyn speaks about the impact of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World on contemporary society....

Author Varda Burstyn gives a brilliant and incisive talk about the Orwellian notion of "Double Think," and applies it to...

Author Varda Burstyn gives a brilliant and incisive talk about the Orwellian notion of "Double Think," and applies it to...

Brave New 1984 invites dialogue regarding contemporary issues such as militarism, globalization, consumption, social ine...

Did you know? 1 in 5 Iraqis have been uprooted by violence in their homeland. Many have fled to Syria where the situati...

Did you know? 1 in 5 Iraqis have been uprooted by violence in their homeland. Many have fled to Syria where the situati...

Toxic Service The Gagetown Atrocity is a series of short videos designed to educate Canadians about our Governments pois...

Rwanda 1994. "One million people were killed in 90 days," Jean Paul reminds us. But he forgives the enemy: he forgives h...

Vera Vertes, born in 1928, in Hungary, was the eldest of three sisters, raised in a well-to-do family. With the German i...

A group of women, from Windsor Ontario, stand in silent protest to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have been doi...

The Iraqi elections in January 2005 sparked lively debate in the media. Were they a farce or a genuine exercise in demo...

Stuck on the Iraqi / Jordanian border, about a dozen men talk to filmmaker Baz Shamoun about their life before and after...

From Baghdad to Manchester is an intimate portrait of a Kurd artist in exile who, metaphorically, remains in his country...

Author Varda Burstyn speaks about the impact of consumerism and the recent economic collapse, through the lens of Aldous...

Since the start of the War in Iraq, many US soldiers have sought refuge in Canada. ...

On the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Alive in Baghdad brings you an assortment of Arabs and Iraqis speaking a...

The Sahwa Councils or what are also known as "Sahwa Forces" had a strong impact and important role in bringing stability...

Imagine spending 30 days confined in a room, always being on the alert of getting shot.  ...

Just who are the Iraqi Police? How do they think? What are there positions on the war and the occupation? Alive in Baghd...

Today thousands of volunteers throughout New York City distributed "special edition" copies of the New York Times. nytim...

Three years of fighting in Darfur have destroyed hundreds of villages, displaced 2.2 million and led to more than 400,00...

In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operati...

It is diffiucult to find images of Iraq before the war. On the internet Iraq appears to be synonymous with war. yoshihar...

The film tells the story of Iraq war veteran Tomas Young. On April 4, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq, Young's unit came und...

The film tells the story of Iraq war veteran Tomas Young. On April 4, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq, Young's unit came und...

 The film tells the story of Iraq war veteran Tomas Young. On April 4, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq, Young's unit came u...

The film tells the story of Iraq war veteran Tomas Young. On April 4, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq, Young's unit came und...

A powerful film that exposes and elucidates the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan....

What happens when a young guy joins a gang?...

 An animated, satirical history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)....

On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a Revolutionary Knitting Circle gathers on the campus of the University of Wind...

The people of Afghanistan are not being taken care of by those in power....

A wounded British soldier leaves the front line to hide in the forest....

A film about the betrayal of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the tenacity of the human spirit....

Think Tank explores how Orwell's writing shaped the twentieth century's war of ideas....

How both the Left and the Right have used and distorted Orwell's catch-phrases and doublethink. Explained by leading Orw...

This video was produced by Secondary 5 students at Ratihente High School in Kanesatake who took part in one of a serie...