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Directed by: Andrew Morgan Film Length: 93 minutes The True Cost (available on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxhCpLzreCw Documentary; environmental; capitalism; consumerism; activist, clothing industry The True Cost explores the everyday lives of garment factory workers in Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia and briefly examines cotton farming in the United States. It highlights the struggles these workers face andContinue reading “Nicola Champoux – The True Cost”

Directed by: Kelsie Moore (2020) Length: 17:00 Link to watch the film: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2020/02/21/the-gray-area/ Poverty; Documentary; Socioeconomic Status; Family; Lifestyle The film, The Gray Area, directed by Kelsie Moore, is an intimate and personal look into the life of a family that falls perfectly into a rather unexamined category of the socioeconomic class scale. They areContinue reading “Jaimie Reynolds – The Gray Area”

Directed by: Jamie Coates (2018) Film Length: 47:52 Intimate; Japan; China; Documentary; Culture; Music Link: https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/1538/1319 Jamie Coates’ 2018 documentary following the life of Chinese musicians in Japan offers an intimate glimpse into the nuances of friendship and what it means to find success. The titular word: pengyou, is defined in the first few minutesContinue reading “Capri Mayes – View of Tokyo Pengyou”

Director: Murray Siple (2008) Length: 59:32 Film:                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi-f_J6hV-g Trailer:             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JHYt7n58E Keywords: alcoholism; homeless; marginalized; freedom; sports Murray Siple’s “Carts of Darkness” is a subversive take on Vancouver’s at-risk homeless population. It presents subjects that are eclectic and three-dimensional to humanize preconceived notions of these at-risk individuals. The characters presented in this film are consideredContinue reading “Michael Ghazarian – Carts of Darkness”

Director: Arcia Tecun (2021) Length: 56:00 Keywords: Kava; Tonga; Culture; Gender; Identity Link: https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v5i01.2844 Arcia Tecun, also known as Daniel Hernandez, is an anthropologist based out of the University of Auckland in New Zealand. From 2015 to 2018, Tecun embarked on a multisite ethnographic film interviewing Tongan people located around the world. He would exploreContinue reading “Robyn Russell – Kava Rootz”

Director: Julie Høj Thomsen (2019) Film Length: 22 minutes Link: https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/2693/2800 Keywords: undocumented migrants; Afghan refugees; Migrant illegality; deportability; rightlessness; short film The focus of the Ethnographic film ‘Underground’ is on what life as an illegal undocumented immigrant is like. The story of Ali takes place as a powerful monologue in Denmark where he hasContinue reading “Emily Lehmann – Underground: A Filmic Exploration of “Migrant Illegality” in Copenhagen”