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Director & Producer: Tracey Moffat (1987) Length: 16:22 Link to Watch the Film: https://vimeo.com/201245792 Keywords: Political; Social Commentary; Colonization; Racism; Sexism; Experimental; Avant-Garde; Australian Aboriginal Women; Indigenous Film; Female Filmmaker Tracey Moffat’s impactful first short film, carrying the tongue-in-cheek title of Nice Coloured Girls (1987), uses juxtaposition, opposition, and experimental film techniques to comment onContinue reading “Hailey Ackinclose – Nice Coloured Girls”

Director: Brad Abrahams (2021) Length: 12:06 Link to watch the film: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2021/07/22/do-you-see-what-i-see/ Keywords: Conspiracy; extremist; politics; society; transcendence; USA; psychological As extremists and conspiracy theories create a façade of fear and pull back the curtains of what deep states are like, filmmaker Brad Abrahams explores a once talented and prevalent Hollywood artist’s fall into theContinue reading “Hannah Thomson – Do You See What I See?”

Directors: Jack Jones, Ann-Kathrine Kværnoe (2019) Length: 21:44 Link: https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/2825/2799 Keywords: Greece; fishermen; refugees; sea; displacement; rescue In their film When You Are In The Sea: Where Can You Hide? Jack Jones and Ann-Kathrine Kværnoe, both graduates of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, show us two fishermen whose workContinue reading “ANON – When You Are In The Sea: Where Can You Hide?”

Directed by: Christina Willings (2017) Film Duration: 23 minutes Keywords: gender creativity; gender diversity; identity; youth; short film Freely available on the National Film Board of Canada website: https://www.nfb.ca/film/beauty/ Have you ever felt like you were playing a game of pretend, sacrificing your individuality just to fit the mould? Have you felt the need toContinue reading “Arianne Pugsley Villard – Beauty: Beyond Binary”

Director: Jia Yuchuan (2019) Length: 1:29:26 (90 minutes) Awards: Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival (Audience Prize) Link to trailer: https://vimeo.com/366759058/f34f40d86b Link to film: https://vimeopro.com/ictvsolferino/china-screen-2020/video/444981880 Keywords: Transgender; China; identity; LGBTQ2+; acceptance; love; documentary; migrant ‘The Two Lives of Li Ermao’ chronicles 17 years of the life of a transgender person, as she searches frantically for love,Continue reading “Zoe Ryde-Kruse – The Two Lives of Li Ermao”

Director: Paul Hairston (2019) Film length: 9:11 Available on Short of the Week: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2020/03/15/lions-in-the-corner/ Key words: violence; fight-club; community; conflict-resolution; cinematic; multimedia; documentary Is all violence bad? Lions in the Corner is an award-winning short film that aims to answer just that. It follows the story of Scarface – an ex-convict who found his purposeContinue reading “Paige McLachlan – Lions in the Corner”

Directed by: Andrea Mura and Umberto Cao (2020) Duration: 29:52 Link: https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/2918/3052 Keywords: Folk music; Economic crisis; Italy; Youth; Education On the Italian island of Sardinia, conditions are bleak. Poverty is rampant, school dropout rates are high, and many young people are unemployed. During this time of economic crisis, an unusual revitalization of a traditionalContinue reading “Brian Levesque – Nodas. Launeddas at the Time of Crisis”

Director: Don Owen (1965) Duration: 14 minutes Link to watch: https://www.nfb.ca/film/high_steel/ Keywords: Indigenous; 1960s; ironworking; construction; New York City; Québec Bridge; Canadian Documentary; history; Canada; USA High Steel is a 14-minute documentary film made for the National Film Board of Canada released in 1965 and directed by Don Owen. The film shows an ironwork crewContinue reading “Caitlyn Dubé – High Steel”

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 – Homelessness; Grungy; Poverty; Life; Enjoyment; Alcoholism; Vancouver Opening on a shot of the Rocky Mountains, which flank on all sides, the city of Vancouver, we meet one of the main characters of the film “Big Al,” He is one of North Vancouver’s many homelessContinue reading “Callum Masterton – Carts of Darkness”

Directed and produced by: Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman (2004) Music: John McDowell Length: 85 minutes Link to the trailer: http://www.zanabriski.com/born-into-brothels Link to the film: https://vimeo.com/365877481 Link to an NPR review: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4516884 Keywords: Brothels; Children; Calcutta, India; Red-light district; Sex workers; Education; Art; Photography; India; Prostitutes Zana Briski and Ross Kaufman wrote and produced BornContinue reading “Rachel Hooton – Born into Brothels”