What does it mean to be an owner? In We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream, employee owners from New Belgium Brewing, Namasté Solar and DPR Construction answer this important question. Successfully thriving in the global economy of the 21st century and beyond will require new…
During the Catalan independence referendum, Marie, a dominican filmmaker, documents the cultural identity of Sory, a small business owner, single mother and lesbian. Despite becoming friends and after having agreed to being filmed from the outset, Sory turns away Marie’s camera from the hair salon…
Peter Galison and Pamela Hogan Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma explores the secret late-1940s/early-1950s debate over whether to build the H-bomb. In the wake of the destructive power unleashed by the atomic bomb, nuclear physicists found themselves in an agonizing moral quandary over whether or…
For the Community Liaison Unit of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. This film tells the story of Narina Anwar’s dramatic escape, with her two sisters, from the threat of forced marriage in Pakistan.
Documentary for BBC Northern Ireland/TnaG/RTE/Irish film board in production with Glass Machine. Titled after the autobiography of Mici MacGowan, who left his native Donegal for the United States in the late 1880s, this documentary portrays the Irish experience in America at its harshest. MacGowans early…
Documentary about the strike at the Grunwick film processing factory in North London, 1976-78. A film about the modern "civilised" state. The predominantly migrant and female workforce at the photo processing plant began to strike in August 1976 against the long working hours (8am-10pm),…
I SOGNI DI ROMA is a five-part film installation which explores the resilience of imagination in the unpredictable times of a pandemic. Romans impart their own dreams had in the first 50 nights of quarantine, as the camera traverses spaces real and imagined. // In March 2020, the whole of…
A celebrated Palestinian influencer from Israel who quit his lucrative job at PayPal in order to maximize life experience; a young top manager who sacrifices both her job and marriage for the adventure of sailing around the world; an Argentinean couple who apply their computer science skills to distribute…
ABOUT THE FILM The Modern Mambabatok (2019) follows Lane Wilcken as he travels the United States practicing Filipino hand-tap tattooing. Through Wilcken’s personal and professional journeys as a traditional tattoo practitioner, audiences gain insight into the history Filipino tattooing, its near…
In 1997, appalled by the plight of 20,000 Haitians annually lured into laboring for low wages on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic, Catholic priest, Christopher Hartley begins advocating to improve their working conditions. His efforts anger the wealthy plantation owners, who stoke the Dominicans'…
Bernard Kavanagh was born in 1936 in Ferryland, Newfoundland. Despite a grade 2 education, he became one of Newfoundland's most successful businessmen.
St. John's, NL has the potential to be a destination city for anyone with a disability to live or to visit. St. John's is not currently living up to its potential.
