25 years’ worth of home movies is used to tell the story of a young man’s search for his mother in Sam Now. Since he was a teenager, Reed Harkness would film his young half-brother Sam, beginning with simple home movies shot with a VHS camcorder and evolving to more polished Super-8 productions. However, these…
Explore the various ways junk is reutilized in Scrap. When everyday objects reach the end of their lifespan, they are discarded and are left to decay for decades. However, in many ways, old objects become much more unique than when they were new and people around the world have utilized ways to bring new life…
A Chinese geneticist goes missing after developing the world’s first genetically-modified humans in Make People Better. In 2018, Chinese scientist Dr. He “JK” Jiankui made headlines when it was revealed he genetically modified two newborn twins named Lulu and Nana to be immune to HIV. The backlash was swift and JK was taken into custody….
Actor Jay Baruchel hosts a docuseries exploring various apocalyptic scenarios in We’re All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel). There are many ways for humanity to come to an end and Jay Baruchel has made it his mission to explore which one has the greatest chance of ever happening. Over the course of this six-part series,…
A former groundskeeper suffering from non-Hodgkins lymphoma sues the producer of the world’s most popular brand of weedkiller in Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson vs. Monsanto Company. As a groundskeeper, Dewayne “Lee” Johnson routinely used Ranger Pro, the commercial-grade variant of Roundup, the world’s most popular brand of weed-killer developed by the Monsanto company….
Australia’s “Queen of Honky Tonk” sets off to fulfil her dream of recording in Nashville in I’m Wanita. Wanita is a 47-year-old country music singer based in Tamworth, Australia, who has been spending the past 25 years trying to fulfil her dream of being a star like her idol Loretta Lynn. With the help of her…
A group of 11 LQBTQ+ Vancouverites sponsor a refugee from Uganda in Someone Like Me. Canada is the only country in the world with legislation in place to allow LGBTQ refugees from around the globe into the country. Rainbow Refugee is a private sponsorship group in Vancouver, which is currently sponsoring Drake, a queer refugee…
Thousands of women who left their countries to join ISIS find themselves in limbo at a Syrian detention camp in The Return: Life After ISIS. Spurred on by propaganda videos promising a utopia for Muslims, thousands of radicalized teenage women left their Western countries and travelled to Syria as ISIS recruits. However, after arriving in…
A small farm in Wales gets converted into one of the first residential recording studios in Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm. Fifty years ago, brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward decided to convert their family farm outside of the town of Monmouth in Wales into a recording studio. The stables and pig sheds were equipped with…
The stereotypes surrounding black women and the definition of beauty are explored in Subjects of Desire. The year 2019 was a watershed moment, where the winners of the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss America winners were all black women. This goes against the stereotypes that were perpetrated for decades,…
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