Underrepresented female rock pioneers prepare to make a comeback in FANNY: The Right to Rock. FANNY is a band formed in the late-1960s by Filipino-American sisters Jene and June Millington, along with a rotating line-up that included drummers Brie Darling and Alice de Buhr, keyboardist Nickey Barclay, and guitarist Patti Quatro. The band was one of…
The rise and fall of WeWork CEO Adam Neumann is recounted in WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn. When it was founded in 2010, Adam Neumann described his shared workspace company WeWork as the world’s first “physical social network.” Preferring to call themselves a technology company over real estate, the estimated…
The evolving relationship of three Goth friends in a small town in Denmark in Dark Blossom. Josephine is a 20-year-old living in a small town, who has embraced Goth culture with her friends Nightmare, a gay, half-Pakistani musician and Jay, a pensive Christian with a skyscraping mohawk. Together, the three share their love of darkness…
A mischievous filmmaking duo creates their own currency and bank with the lofty goal of eliminating debut in Bank Job. Debt forms the backbone of a financial system, where credit issuers don’t want us to pay off our balances. Part of the reasoning for this comes from the fact that 97% of all money is…
The mysterious rise and fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in Canada is examined in Dead Man’s Switch: A Crypto Mystery. Founded in 2013 by Gerald Cotten and Michael Patryn, QuadrigaCX quickly grew to become the largest exchange of Bitcoin in Canada. However, it is revealed in early 2019 that Cotton suddenly died while in India…
Six female Cannabis cultivators and entrepreneurs struggle to survive, following the legalization of recreational marijuana in California in Lady Buds. The passing of Proposition 64 in California resulted in Cannabis becoming legal for recreational is. This allowed many involved in the Cannabis industry to try and legitimize their businesses, including second-generation cultivator Chiah Rodriques, retired…
Members of a deaf high school football team head towards homecoming coming to terms with the loss of a close friend in Audible. Amaree McKenstry-Hall became deaf when he received meningitis as a child and he is currently a member of the championship football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf. After a heartbreaking…
The substance-use crisis and drug-poisoning epidemic among the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta is explored in Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. Since 2014, the opioid crisis has cost hundreds of lives to members of the Kainai First Nation, which is on top of the ongoing issue of alcoholism and other substance abuse crises. Filmmaker…
A veteran gamer attempts to play for 100 hours in a single stretch in Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest. Kim “Cannon Arm” Købke is a Danish man, who has been an avid player of arcade games since 1977. Kim regularly gathers with his friends at the Bip Bip Bar and plays his game of…
Commander X of the hacktivist group Anonymous tells his story in The Face of Anonymous. One day novelist Ian Thornton struck up a conversation with a homeless man on the streets of Toronto, who turned out to be Christopher Mark Doyon, aka “Commander X” of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Now living in political asylum in Mexico,…
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