A new space race begins in a small Texan town in Shifting Baselines. At Spacebase, just outside of the Texan town of Boca Chica, located on the Mexican border, companies such as Space X and Starlink are developing the next generation of rockets and satellites. The rocket tests attract casual observers and independent scientists, who…
The tragic story behind a photo of an indigenous man that went viral is told in #skoden. Beginning around 2008, a photo of an indigenous man putting his dukes up spread around the internet. Initially used in a derogatory fashion by white supremacists, the photo was reclaimed by indigenous individuals as an Internet meme using…
An online vigilante baits alleged sexual predators in Shamed. Jason Nassr built an online following through his YouTube series Creeper Hunter TV, where he would bait alleged sexual predators by posing as underage girls on dating sites, before confronting them on video. However, this online vigilantism and public shaming resulted in multiple individuals Jason Nassr…
A woman tries to find answers to why her brother experienced the same lost-at-sea fate as her father in Ghosts of the Sea. Virginia Tangvald is the youngest daughter of a famous Norwegian sailor, Peter Tangvald. When Virginia was only 5 years old, Peter died in a shipwreck that also claimed the life of her…
A Toronto filmmaker makes an animated documentary about his family in Shamattawa, Manitoba, in Endless Cookie. Seth Scriver receives funding to make a documentary animation featuring stories narrated by Seth’s indigenous half-brother Peter. Seth travels from Toronto to the First Nations reserve of Shamattawa in Northern Manitoba to record the stories with Peter. However, this…
A Cree survivor of colonial trauma finds solace in his passion for the stars in Wilfred Buck. Wilfred Buck had a traumatic upbringing, with his siblings being victims of the Sixties Scoop and his mother dying on the streets of Winnipeg. Today, Wilfred Buck is an astronomer and educator passionate about the stars. Wilfred Buck…
A young man tries to reconcile his father’s death with the help of old home movie recordings in My Dad’s Tapes. On August 9, 2006, Leonard Watson dropped off his 8-year-old son Kurtis at summer camp and promptly disappeared, only to be found dead a month later of an apparent suicide. 14 years after his…
A 25-year-old Quebecois man is willing to do anything to become the best Michael Jackson impersonator in Me, Michael and I. Freddy Duffour is a 25-year-old man from Quebec who has been obsessed with Michael Jackson since he was 16 years old. Already having had multiple plastic surgeries to look like the King of Pop,…
The nearly forgotten story of one of pop music’s first black trans performers is told in Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. In the 1960s Jackie Shane was a groundbreaking R&B star, before disappearing from the public eye in 1971. After her nieces Andrenee Majors and Vonnie Moore inherit her belongings and find her…
The life of morticians is shown in a very tongue-in-cheek fashion in Undertaker for Life! If the world didn’t need undertakers, the people would be pretty happy. Director Georges Hannan tackles the taboo profession of preparing the dead for burial with earnestness and humour. This includes comparing embalming to changing the transmission on a car…
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