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award winning films

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ELEMENTARY
1
THE ARTS
10
BUSINESS
12
EDUCATION
13
ENVIRONMENT
16
GEOGRAPHY
19
HEALTH, SAFETY AND MEDICINE
20
HISTORY
22
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
25
LAW AND JUSTICE
27
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
28
POLITICAL SCIENCE
29
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
32
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
35
AN OPEN WINDOW
ON THE WORLD
elementary
1
Secondary
Post-sec.
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EXPLORING CULTURES
ELEMENTARY
YOUNG EXPLORERS ACROSS AFRICA
Discovering Africa at age 10, leaving your home for the unknown. This will be the adventure of Lea, Jeanne, Louis, Paul-Henry and Hugo, five
budding explorers, as they will share the everyday life of an African child for two weeks. Through their passion for music, dance, rugby or
nature, each learns to make new friends. Whether in South Africa or Mauritania, everything is so different from home: school, food,
showering, playing...
Always curious, sometimes shocked, they will explore through marveled eyes, and in their own spontaneous words will give us a glimpse of
Africa as you've never seen it. A great adventure, and also a lesson of tolerance and sharing, a touching story of friendship between children
who come from different worlds, and yet have so much in common…:
1. PAUL-HENRY IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MANDELA (SOUTH AFRICA) 2. LEA ON THE TRAIL OF GORILLAS (KONGO) 3. JEANNE DANCING TO A NEW
TUNE (MADAGASCAR) 4. LOUIS AND THE SONS OF THE DESERT (MAURITANIA) 5. HUGO, TO THE SOUND OF BEATING DRUMS (BURKINA FASO)
2009 | 5 x 26 min. | Subjects: Society and Culture, Communities, Children and Youth, Africa
Price A
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$175
$70
$790
$315
MY RELIGION
Many nations are undergoing an increase in cultural diversity and learning to live together in a multicultural society is one of the major
challenges of modern society. This series is designed to give an unbiased view of the community life of six world religions.
Each program within this series follows a child and their family, giving an insight into the role of religion, tradition and rituals in their daily lives
and the communities in which they live.
1. I’M A HINDU
2. I’M A BUDDHIST
3. I’M A JEW
4. I’M A CHRISTIAN
5. I’M A MUSLIM 6. I’M A BAHA’I
2010 | 6 x 6 min. on 1 DVD | Price A: $195 | Price B: $80
Subjects: Religion, Society and Culture, Communities
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FEATURE LENGTH FILMS
ELEMENTARY
AWARD WINNING FILMS
Frogs and toads
A wonderful adventure takes shape when a six-year-old boy sets out to help his ailing brother. After having his tonsils removed, Jannus is convinced
he'll never speak without the aid of "frogspawn," so he sends his younger brother Max on a mission to find this mysterious substance. With his
friend Jesse by his side, Max sets out across field, farm, and forest to find the "frogspawn," discovering many interesting creatures in this lovely tale
of determination and adventure.
2010 Cairo International Film Festival | 2009 Golden + Platin Film Festival – Netherlands | 2009 Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival
2009 Montevideo Film Festival for Children
2008 | 75 min. | Price A: $255 | Price B: $100
ON THE SLY
In a not-so-far-away land, not so long ago, lived Cathy, an ordinary little girl, who had grown tired of being constantly ignored by her parents. On a
return trip home from the family’s country house, she lets the car door slam and her parents drive off without her. Cathy decides that she’s better
off in the woods rather than risk a scolding. She takes to the woods with determination, building a small shelter and hiding from search parties.
What could end badly turns into an extraordinary adventure.
“On the Sly," a charming leap into the mind of a child that offers rewards for kids and adults alike.” Jay Weissberg, Variety, Feb.
2011 Montréal International Children's Film Festival | 2011 Munich International Film Festival | 2011 Chicago International Children's Film Festival
FUCHSIA, THE MINI WITCH
A great adventure sometimes hatches from the smallest egg, as wizard Quark finds out when he finds an egg in the Witch’s Wood. This egg
produces not a bird, but a little girl, a mini-witch, who he names Fuchsia.
Fuchsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witch’s school. Flying along on her
brush (she is still too small for a real witch’s broomstick), Fuchsia causes havoc in the Witch’s Wood, and every now and then worries the life out of
her father mainly because Fuchsia is very curious about the “human” world a world Quark wants nothing to do with.
2011 Griffon International Children’s Film Festival | 2010 Cinekid Festival, Netherlands
CHRiSTMAS STORY
WHERE iS Winky’s HORSE? (sequel)
Have you ever wondered how Santa Claus grew up to be Santa? This
award winning film, set against a breathtaking landscape, relates the
untold story of Santa's life, as he overcomes personal tragedy and
hardship to develop a big and pure heart filled with love for children
around the world.
Five-year-old Winky Wong immigrates to the Netherlands with her
mother from China to rejoin her father, a restaurant-owner in a quiet
seaside Dutch town. The stresses of learning a new language and fitting
in at school are eased when Winky makes friends with an elderly pony
owned by her neighbors. Also available – Winky’s Horse
2 Jussi Awards (Finnish Oscars)
Sarasota Film Festival 2008, USA
Madrid ICFF 2008: Audience Award
2008 Festival International du Film de Munich
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2007 | 80 min.
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$100
$460
$180
ELEMENTARY
2008 AMPIA
AWARD
Best Children’s Series
RAVEN TALES
Raven Tales is an award winning children’s animated series based on Aboriginal folklore presented in a humorous and entertaining way. The
episodes follow the many adventures of Raven, the most powerful deity of Aboriginal mythology and a cast of humans as they re-tell the traditional
stories of the Northwest Coast First Nations People, the Kwakwaka wakw, the Squamish and Haida.
Season 1
1. HOW RAVEN STOLE THE SUN 2. THE FIRST PEOPLE 3. SEA WOLF 4. GONE FISHING 5. LOVE AND WAR 6. BALD EAGLE 7. CHILD OF TEARS 8. HOWL
AT THE MOON 9. RAVEN AND COYOTE 10. RAVEN GETS SICK 11. THE FLOOD 12. THE GATHERING 13. THE ROUGH FACE GIRL
Season 2
14. DREAM, DREAM, DREAM 15. DOG DAYS 16. GREAT BEAR ROCK 17. BABY BLUES 18. STARLIGHT, STAR BRIGHT 19. THE GAMES 20. SPIDERS AND
DREAMS 21. BUKWAS 22. WORK AND PLAY 23. CHANGE AND BUTTERFLIES 24. DAY IN THE LIFE 25. RETURN OF KULOS 26. MUSICIANS OF THE SUN
Season 1: 2004-2007 | 13 x 26 min.
Season 2: 2008-2010 | 13 x 26 min.
Subjects: Animation, Aboriginal Peoples, Folklore
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13/26
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$730
$325
$1490
$665
$2635
$1170
BEING …
This series is a great introduction to learning International languages. Each episode comprises ten location-based sections, containing insights
into the life and culture of the country as perceived by children. The narration is in English but each child speaks in their mother tongue. Each
program highlights certain keywords that appear on the screen in the featured language.
Closed captioning
1. BEING CHINESE 2. BEING SPANISH 3. BEING GERMAN 4. BEING FRENCH 5. BEING ITALIAN
2008 | 5 x 30 min. | Subjects: Other Languages, Spanish Language, French Language
Price A
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$175
$70
$790
$315
ELEMENTARY
Write Right - Learning to Print
WRITE RIGHT! LEARING TO PRINT is a fun and engaging instructional video series that utilizes tried and true strategies for primary students
learning to print letters. With a generous dose of music, rhyme, and humor, students make clear connections to their early reading programs by
using common word models. The modular, segmented design of the series allows for the introduction of letters in an interactive, flexible way
so it is self-standing or can be used as a visual supplement to other handwriting programs with different letter sequencing. LEARNING TO PRINT
has two charming characters: Bartleby, the wild and crazy pencil, and his glum chum, Gom, the eraser. Follow Bartleby’s encounters in his
community through illustrated letters that he writes to Gom— which thoughtfully transition to the practice of letter formation.
1. GETTING STARTED 2. ROUND AND ROUND 3. MORE ROUND AND ROUND 4. DOTS OR NOT 5. OVER THE TOP 6. GET DOWN 7. BOUNCE
BACK 8. THE LONERS 9. A NEW SLANT 10. SWERVY CURVY 11. JUMP 12. UP AND DOWN AND SIDEWAYS TOO 13. STICKS AND STONES 14.
STAND UP STRAIGHT 15. SLIP AND SLIDE 16. COUNT ON IT
Teacher’s Guide included
2010 | 16 x (5-10 min.) | Price A Box Set: $995 | Price B Box Set: $595| Subject: Education
Write Right – Learning Cursive
Using research-based interactive strategies to make learning fun, the series tackles the drudgery and redundant nature of learning to write in
cursive handwriting for elementary aged children while helping them develop good habits in order to write right! Strategies include the
repetition of catchy songs for important concepts, programs that are segmented, the use of self-critique after writing practice, and a review
segment at the end of each program—all presented with a large dose of humor. Another well-proven strategy for learners is that they are
encouraged to trace the shape that is being introduced with their finger in the air or on their desktops while students watch the animated
character, Bartleby form the letters.
1. GETTING STARTED 2. GETTING LOOPY BIG TIME 3. GETTING LOOPY SMALL TIME 4. LOOPS AND LINES 5. EXTRA LOOPY 6. MIND THE GAP 7.
ROUND ROLLING WHEELS 8. MAKING WAVES 9. BIG DIPPERS 10. SPIKY TOPS 11. GO LOW WITH LIMBO 12. WILD ROLLER COASTER 13.
MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS 14. AT THE END 15. COUNT ON IT
2009 | 15 x (5-10 min.) | Price A: Box Set: $995 | Price B: Box Set: $595 | Subject: Education
Kragnatz Conquers Language Arts
Students will love the zany perspective of Kragnatz, the alien invader, who is determined to learn the parts of speech so he can conquer the
Earth! His one miscalculation…he is only two-inches tall!
With the help of his trusty robot companion, Ignatz 3000, he explores the earthlings’ ultimate source of top secret information--homework! His
reports to outer space include fun-filled animated sequences that present Language Arts in an entertaining, informative, and engaging format-complete with review segments for student self-evaluation.
Follow the adventures of Kragnatz and Ignatz 3000 as they prepare to conquer the Earth....and your students’ imaginations!
1. NOUNS (8 PARTS) 2. VERBS (5 PARTS) 3. PRONOUNS (4 PARTS) 4. ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS (2 PARTS) 5. PREPOSITIONS, INTERROGATIVES &
CONJUNCTIONS (3 PARTS) 6. CAPITALIZATION & PUNCTUATION (2 PARTS)
2013 | 6 episodes with varying number of chapters | Price A: Box Set: $995 | Price B: Box Set: $595 | Subject: Education
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ELEMENTARY
SCIENCE
2012 GÉMEAUX AWARD WINNER
Best digital project in a children’s or
youth series
2012 NUMIX AWARD WINNER
Convergence production : youth
2013 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS NOMINEE
Best animated program or series
JACK
Jack is a fun loving alien explorer whose coolest discovery yet is the amazing “Planet Earth”! With the help of his alien dog Rocket and his robotic
assistant CHIP, he sets out on a series of fun and daring adventures to learn all about this strange new planet! Showing him the ropes are his
three new friends: a nine‐year‐old boy named Nico, his little sister Sam, and their slacker pal Yoki. Together they help Jack (and us!) understand
how things work here on Earth...and beyond!
Jack is an animated series consisting of 52 eleven‐minute episodes on 13 DVDs, perfect for children from six to nine years old. By mixing humour,
adventure, and science, the series helps children discover amazing new facts about the world and space around us, all while following the
exciting adventures of our hero Jack.
2012 | 13 x 44 min.
Subjects: Natural Science, Animation
Price A
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$195
$80
$1055
$430
1. BATH TIME | BAD HAIR DAY | METEOR SHOWER | JACKOSAURUS
2. THE JACK SHOW | HICCUP PUP! | THE BLACK HOLE | SATURN’S RINGS
3. MISSION: ICE IMPOSSIBLE | EAR WAX| FOOD CHAIN FOR THOUGHT | TUMMY TROUBLES
4. DO THE TWISTER | SWIMMING WITH ALIENS | WEB OF TROUBLE | LET’S GO BATTY
5. ANT IT THE TRUTH | SUPER FLY | DOG DAY AFTERNOON | DR. JACK
6. SINK OR SWIM | ALIENS! | BEANO GETS CAVITIES | WHAT GOES UP…
7. LET IT BE | BOTANICAL MENACE | FREEZIN’ HOT | CRUISE SHIP
8. ROCK N’ ROSE | STINKY BUSINESS | JACK AND THE SNAKE | YETI!
9. TURN LEFT, TURN RIGHT, TURN LEFT | SLEEPWALKING JACK | SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW | SEE NO EVIL
10. JACKY’S COMET | SEASON’S CHANGE | A ROBOT’S BEST FRIEND | POISON IVY
11. POISON PETS | VOLCANO NO! | GHOST STORY | EYE SPY
12. WHITE WATER DIZZIES | RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY | JACK’S FAULT LINE | STINGBERRY JELLY
13. EEL‐ECTRICITY | BITE MAKES RIGHT | A STICKY SITUATION | FEELING BLUE
Help Jack train Rocket, his cute alien dog so he can become a Super Explorer Dog !
36 levels to perform | 6 different skills to master | 3 different worlds to discover | 6 super events combining 2 skills
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SCIENCE
ELEMENTARY
THE adventures of compass and alarm CLOCK
This series makes science lessons interesting and adventurous for young students, presenting the concepts of natural science, technology, and their
practical application through the use of captivating and humorous animation. Compass teaches children the basics with easy to follow and fun
experiments. Alarm Clock is interested in everything, asks many questions and wants to know everything around him. Together Compass and Alarm
Clock show children from K-4, just how fascinating science can be.
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Synopsis
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GETTING CLOSER
Experiments with homemade optical devices demonstrate the magnifying effect of the lenses in glasses,
microscopes and telescopes.
2
RAIN
Learn about the water cycle and its importance to the ecosystem, as well as some of the most fascinating
atmospheric phenomena- lightning and the rainbow.
3
MAGICAL RAYS
The use of sunlight is ideal for experiments. Learn to build a sundial and a shadow box theater. Explore other
effects of sunbeams like desert mirages
4
IN SEARCH OF AIR
Air pressure can be used to launch an air rocket, but what is air, and what is it made of?
5
EXPERIMENT WITH WATER
From tsunami to soap bubbles and capillary action, Compass demonstrates the properties of water in simple
experiments.
6
MYSTERIOUS MAGNET
Alarm Clock learns about magnets and magnetism.
7
WHY DOES EVERYTHING FALL DOWNWARDS?
Experiments demonstrating weight and gravity, the effects of shape on air resistance, and different types of
friction.
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COLORFUL COLORS
HANG ON TO THE EARTH!
Learn about the color spectrum, the rules of color mixing and production of new hues.
The principles of rectilinear and curvilinear motion, centrifugal force and weightlessness.
10 ELECTRIC WONDER
Homemade electroscope and other safe experiments shed light on the ideas of electricity, electrification and
electricity charges.
11 COLORFUL SURPRISE
Alarm Clock learns the importance of patience and some secrets of gardening.
12 ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND
An analogy between batteries and the heart and lungs becomes critical when Alarm Clock is rushing to save his
best friend.
13 A WALK IN THE CLOUDS
Alarm Clock learns about weather, air pollution and the different types of clouds.
14 HOW TO HANDLE HEAT
A homemade volcano model reveals the nature of volcanic processes. More experiments demonstrate thermal
conductivity and heat conservation.
15 WINTER GAMES
Alarm Clock learns about winter, snow and regions where it's cold year-round.
16 BREATHTAKING FLIGHT
Compass teaches the history of flight, and shows how to construct different versions of boomerangs and a
parachute.
17 THE WATER CROSSING
A walk in the woods leads our heroes to consider the weight of objects in the water, hydrostatic force and
buoyancy limit. Alarm Clock gets a lesson in honesty and manners.
18 A LITTLE LOST
Compass and Alarm Clock try to get home on their own by building a wind-driven car and a kite.
19 HIGH PLACES
Playing on a slide teaches our heroes about caution, chain reaction and power transfer.
20 ATTENTION! GERMS
Compass explains to Alarm Clock the nature of germs, mold and bacteria and their role in health, the processing of
dairy products and bread.
21 PAPER FOREST
Learn to build a ladder, a tree, and a whole forest using paper.
22 HOW DOES IT SOUND?
When Compass explains the nature of echoes and sound waves, Alarm Clock overcomes his fear and finds a way
out of a dark cave.
23 PIRATE'S TREASURE
Exploring an old pirate ship, Compass explains the process of rusting, solubility and photographic transfer.
24 LEMON SECRETS
Compass shows Alarm Clock how to make invisible ink, inflate a balloon and conduct other experiments with the
help of a simple lemon.
25 DETECTIVE STORY
A secret note leads Compass and Alarm Clock on an exploration of encrypted messages, hidden maps, and
mysterious tracks to the greatest treasure in the world - knowledge.
26 FIRST TIME AT THE ARENA
A trip to the circus leads our heroes to a magician's toolbox, revealing some tricks.
2010 | 26 x 13 min. | Subjects: Earth Science, Chemistry, Physics, Natural Science
Single
$150
$75
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06/26
$810
$405
12/26
$1530
$765
26/26
$2925
$1465
SCIENCE
ELEMENTARY
THEY LIVE THERE…
THEY LIVE THERE... is a nature series for children ages 8 to 13 that takes a close
look at creatures large and small that we find in everyday places. Discover the
animals, that we love and some that we don’t, those we eat and those that pose
problems…
The DVD is chaptered into 5 x 6 minute segments:
1. IN THE RIVER
2. BY THE SEA
3. ON THE GROUND
4. IN THE GARDEN
5. IN THE FOREST
2008 | 5 x 6 min. on 1 DVD | Price A: $175 | Price B: $70
Subject: Natural Science
NUMERICON
Numericon is an innovative 26-episode science fiction adventure series for middle-school students who are struggling with math skills and
concepts. The focus is on four areas that have traditionally been problematic for this age group: Ratio & Proportion; Linear Equations; Data,
Statistics, & Probability; and Geometry.
Numericon motivates students to learn and apply math concepts while answering the age-old question, “How does this math apply to real life?”
While each episode offers a satisfying beginning and conclusion that can be used as a stand-alone teaching tool, the complete narrative includes
character development that underscores values such as teamwork, loyalty, trust, and responsibility to oneself and others.
1. INTO THE WARP (Ratio and Proportion – Number Sense) 2. GHOST SHIP (Ratio and Proportion – Number Sense) 3. EYE OF POWER (Ratio and
Proportion – Number Sense) 4. DEADLY CHASE (Ratio and Proportion – Number Sense) 5. GIFT OF DESTINY (Ratio and Proportion – Number Sense)
6. DEAL OF DOOM (Ratio and Proportion – Number Sense) 7. HORRIBLE SURPRISE (Ratio and Proportion – Number Sense) 8. CRASH LANDING (Ratio
and Proportion – Measurement and Geometry) 9. MAROONED! (Ratio and Proportion – Measurement and Geometry) 10. THE UNDERGROUND
(Ratio and Proportion – Number Sense) 11. SPIDER WEB (Linear Equations – Algebra and Functions) 12. TRANSMISSION (Linear Equations – Algebra
and Functions) 13. PRISON PLANET (Linear Equations – Algebra and Functions) 14. BREAK OUT (Linear Equations – Algebra and Functions) 15. THE
ETERNEL CIRCLE (Linear Equations – Algebra and Functions) 16. WITNESS (Linear Equations – Algebra and Functions) 17. PLANET OF SECRETS (Data,
Statistics and Probability – Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability) 18. STAR HACK (Data, Statistics and Probability – Statistics, Data Analysis and
Probability) 19. GALAXY CRASH (Data, Statistics and Probability – Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability) 20. BRAINJACKED! (Data, Statistics and
Probability – Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability) 21. WARP TO DANGER (Data, Statistics and Probability – Statistics, Data Analysis and
Probability) 22. PLANET BREAK (Data, Statistics and Probability – Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability) 23. ELECTRIC DREAMS (Geometry –
Measurement and Geometry) 24. SENTINEL OF THE DRAGON (Geometry – Measurement and Geometry) 25. LAIR OF DARKNESS (Geometry –
Measurement and Geometry) 26. OUT OF THE WARP (Geometry – Measurement and Geometry)
2012 | 26 x 8 min. | Price A Box Set: $955 | Price B Box Set: $595
Subject: Mathematics
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SOCIAL STUDIES
ELEMENTARY
DOGGY DAY SCHOOL
Every morning the dogs' busy owners drop them off at daycare and every evening they return to pick them up. In between, the dogs spend their
time playing together, learning about each other and the world around them, and getting in - and out - of merry mischief. Through the guise of
animated dogs, this series teaches children that we live in a multi-cultural world where respecting differences and accepting others and ourselves is
not just polite etiquette but a necessity. DOGGY DAY SCHOOL is designed to encourage children to have a view of the world where diversity is
something to be celebrated.
1. PIG DEAL | SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL | SPORTS DAY | DO THE ITCH
Themes: Accepting ourselves for who we are or how we look | Making someone feel good | Over-coming embarrassment
2. SUPER KODA! | DIAMOND LILI | HIDDEN TALENT | PEDRO’S SECRET
Themes: Don’t be too quick to judge your friends | Importance of friends | Appreciating your friends | Showing compassion
3. OODLES FOR POODLES | FOOD FOR THOUGHT | BATH TIME | KODA AND THE THREE BEARS
Themes: Including others | Everyone is special in their own way | Trying new things can be fun | Learning to cooperate
4. CONE HEAD | MAGIC LAMP | BEST IN SHOW | PATIENCE LUCAS
Themes: Friendship and distractions | Telling the truth and friendship | Showing kindness | Being patient
5. BOSSY BOOTS | ROSIE’S GIFT | THE RUNAROUND | SOMETHING’S FISHY
Themes: Cleaning up | Recycling | Telling the truth | Don’t judge unless you know the facts
6. ZIPPY THE TURTLE | GOOD ENOUGH | MY FIRST DAY | LET’S GET READY
Themes: Respecting others | You don’t have to be the best at everything | First day jitters | Importance of rules and responsibilities
7. DOGS WITH JOBS | VISIT TO THE VET | PEDRO’S FAUX PAS | THE MISUNDERSTANDING
Themes: Everyone is good at something | Not being afraid to visit the doctor | Not everything we overhear is about us
8. STAR TROUBLE | A SORRY STORY | DETECTIVE DOGS | SUBSTITUTE ROSIE
Themes: Jealousy | Accepting apologies | A new person can be fun
9. ROBOT DOG | GIGGLY PIG | UNFAIR TRADE | PEDRO’S PRETEND
Themes: Envy | Being on the receiving end of jokes is not fun | Being fair | Bad moods are not fun
10. CAT ON THE MAT | TOO HOT TO TROT | PIRATE VLAD | WHERE’S ROSIE’S HAT
Themes: Simple things can be fun | Helping each other | Games shouldn’t get too serious | Using your imagination
11. A HEROIC RESCUE | SHARE AFFAIR | SILENT LUCAS | FISH SEES THE WORLD
Themes: Being fair | Sharing | Considering others
12. LUCAS SAVES THE DAY | LITTLE LUCAS | CHEATER IN THE PACK | MIXED BISCUITS
Themes: Working together | Being small isn’t bad at all | Cheating
13. CARNIVAL | HOME FOR HANK | LILI & LULU | A BIG CHANGE
Themes: Jealousy, Trying new things | Helping others in need | Accepting new family members | Using your imagination
2009-2011 | 13 x (4 x 11 min.)
Subject: Animation
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$2155
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BEST SELLERS
1 minute in a museum
3 kids, discover works of art in this sassy series of 1 minute videos.
Rafael, serious and studious, Mona, witty and intuitive and Nabi the
youngest, full of mischief and make-believe, spontaneously tell us what
they think about art.
1. 60 Works of Art to Discover (60 x 1 min.)
2. Islamic Art (40 x 1 min.)
3. Arts of the Peoples of the World (40 x 1 min.)
4. Modern and Contemporary Art (40 x 1 min.)
2004-2011 | Subject: Art History
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$235
$90
$845
$325
Just so stories
Rudyard Kipling’s "JUST SO STORIES", written more than a century ago,
are still incredibly modern filled with humour and fantasy. Made to be
told or read aloud, they use the magic of language to carry the listener
into a world still pure where everything is possible: the world of “all
beginnings”.
1. HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS 2. THE CAT THAT WALKED BY
HIMSELF 3. THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS 4. THE BUTTERFLY
THAT STAMPED 5. HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN and HOW THE
WHALE GOT HIS THROAT 6. HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP and THE
SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO 7. THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH
THE SEA 8. HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS MADE 9. HOW THE ALPHABET
WAS MADE 10. THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD
CHEZ MIMI
Meet Madame Mimi, the cantankerous concierge of a building rather
unusual in a typical French town, where bizarre residents share with us
their day to day life. These episodes combine simple spoken French in
a variety of colorful environments. In a short time, this allow children
to understand everything that was said! This DVD allows your students
to hear genuine accents and the plain language used in daily life
situations, making lessons more exciting, colorful and relevant.
1. EN FAMILLE
2. LES COPAINS
3. À TABLE!
5. ON JOUE?
Teacher’s Guide Available
2000 | 5 x 15 min. | Subject: French
2007 | 10 x 13 min. | Subject: Juvenile Literature
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$135
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$605
$270
4. NOS AMIS LES BÊTES
THE ARTS
It’s a formidable challenge –
building places in a rapidly
urbanizing planet that are
fit for humans to inhabit.
ARCHITECTS ON THE FRONTLINE
Some take the view that our architects and town planners are failing us. But a new kind of architect is rising to the challenge by thinking outside
the square. They’re designing buildings that aren’t just aesthetically pleasing, but also help to make our increasingly crowded planet a better
place to be.
ARCHITECTS ON THE FRONTLINE takes us behind the scenes of the world's richest prize in architecture - The Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
In 2008, 401 projects were presented for consideration of which 19 were selected for competition and 5 winners were chosen at the end of the
two year period by an independent Master Jury.
The Aga Khan Development Network focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of
economic development. It is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or
gender.
2011 | 3 x 22 min. | Subject: Architecture
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Episode 1: 8 finalists are featured in the first episode. We also hear from the master jury and steering committee members including UK artist
Anish Kapoor and world-renowned architect Norman Foster.
Episode 2: This episode presents the final 11 finalists.
Episode 3: This last episode concludes the series by featuring the five chosen winning projects during the ceremony in Doha, Qatar:
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5 WINNING
PROJECTS
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BRIDGE SCHOOL (CHINA) | A school built as a bridge between two ancient Chinese castles.
THE WADI HANIFA WETLANDS (SAUDI ARABIA) | A multimillion dollar project breathing new life into Saudi Arabia’s capital’s
previously polluted and clogged waterways.
THE MANDINAT AL-ZAHRA MUSEUM (SPAIN) | A museum built underground in order minimise the impact on the surrounding
landscape.
THE IPEKYOL TEXTILE FACTORY (TURKEY) | A building seeking to enhance the lives of the factory workers through it’s
aesthetically pleasing and functional design.
THE REVITALISATION OF THE RECENT HERITAGE OF THE CITY OF TUNIS (TUNISIA)
THE ARTS
AT FRIDA KAHLO’S
«The Blue House,» located in Mexico City, is the home where Frida Kahlo
was born (1907) and would die (1954). She was surrounded not only by
painter Diego Rivera, who became her husband, but also by Leon Trotsky,
André Breton, Sergei Eisenstein, Pablo Neruda, Waldo Frank, Pablo
Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Vassily Kandinsky.
After recently commemorating Mexico’s 200 years of national
independence and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, our
film recalls the great adventures of «The Blue House»: its parties, its
manifestoes, its artists, its freewheeling love affairs, its betrayals... as well
as its unlikely melding of art and revolution, of Surrealism and Mexico, of
the Old and the New Worlds.
Subjects: Art History, Drawing, Painting and Print, Biography,
Women, Society and Culture
Margaret & evergon
In 1999, the celebrated Montreal photographer Evergon took a
remarkable series of nude portraits of his own mother, then 80 years old.
The photographs were instantly recognized as a singular achievement: the
black and white images embodied not the infirmities of old age, but the
timeless strength, dignity, even majesty.
In 2007 Margaret Lunt left her long-time home in Niagara Falls, Ontario
and moved to Montreal to live with her son. It was shortly afterwards,
that filmmaker Donald Winkler embarded on a project that would explore
what lay behind that series of photographs, uncovering in the process a
poignant family history, a woman's determination to be her own person,
how readily she threw off her own deepest cultural conditioning when she
discovered both her sons were gay and a most unique and inspiring
relationship between mother and son. The result...is MARGARET &
EVERGON
A many-sided gem of a film, not to be missed
- Marianne Ackerman, Rover Oct. 29, 2011
* Warning: Nudity
Subject: Photography
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BUSINESS
Going going gone (tsukiji fish market)
Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market is the biggest wholesale fish market in the
world. 100 000 people can be found everyday amongst its 850 stalls. Its
name is in every single tourist guide book as a the must-see place to visit.
What is the appeal of this market to millions of tourists from around the
world?
GOING, GOING, GONE is an exclusive insight into the market with neverbefore-filmed sequences showing the unique skills of the fishmongers and
the myriad varieties of seafood available.
Subjects: Industry and Commerce, Food, Asia
Rare earths – the dirty war
Rare earths are minerals critical for today’s state of the art technologies.
Today, China controls over 90% of the world’s rare earth production and
has started to restrict exports. Because prices of some rare earths have
spiked tenfold in recent years, western countries are throwing themselves
into a battle for the acquisition of alternative sources of rare earth in
order to break their dependence on China.
Subjects: Technology, Industry and Commerce
GOLDEN GOLD
Worldwide economic turmoil is driving gold’s longest bull run in the
last six decades. The thirst for this metal seems inextinguishable and
it is reshaping the lives of people around the world.
This edifying investigation draws a parallel between the setup of the
gold market controlled by a handful of financiers and the unexpected
effects of speculation in Indonesia, Europe and Peru.
Subjects: Economy, Industry and Commerce
Dirty money, financial poison
The Mafia and trafficking of all kinds, is well known worldwide but
what is less clear is how Mafia organizations have infiltrated the
economy of well-intentioned democracies with crime money over the
last 20 years. Using concrete examples we will follow the routes and
the mechanics of local money laundering by looking into modern
finance at the international level.
This film helps identify, analyze and explain the movements of
underground and illegal money that supply the global economy, a
major geopolitical fact that is often underrated or ignored altogether.
Subjects: Economy, Industry and Commerce, Law and Justice,
Criminology
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EDUCATION
BAMBOO SCHOOLS
In a Nepal still exhausted after a revolution that was barely over, Uttam
Sanjel, a young actor honed by the rigors of Bollywood, had a
dream: providing an education for all of Nepal’s poor children!
This multi-faceted account takes us to the heart of the struggle for
education from a man with unflagging determination and children
desperate for knowledge. But how long can our hero withstand the
obstacles facing the bamboo schools?
Subjects: Education, Society and Culture, Social Issues, Children
and Youth, Asia
STREET TEACHERS
This documentary follows Narisaraporn Asipong, one of Thailand’s
devoted street teachers as she visits the homeless children in Bangkok in
the hopes of getting them off the streets. Teaching is no longer a priority
because basic survival takes precedent.
We meet three of her young protégés who are struggling to survive
without a home or family with the hope of turning their lives around. This
“classroom” is often the only safe haven these kids have…
AWARD
WINNER
Winning Story from The Asian Pitch 2010 – a MediaCorp-NHK
collaboration
Subjects: Education, Society and Culture, Social Issues, Asia
Building mathematical competenCies
in early childhood
The film will provide students and their teachers with an introduction to
the crucial mathematical understandings, skills and attitudes children
should acquire before entering primary school. Research has revealed that
early math achievement predicts later achievement and that large gaps
exist between mathematical knowledge and attitudes of children of
different social groups in kindergarten.
Learning Guide and Discussion Guide
Subjects: Education, Science, Mathematics
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EDUCATION
EXTRA
Best seller
 For French second Language Learning – Grades 9 to 12
EXTRA EN FRANÇAIS is a French language learning series aimed at 14-19 year olds. The success and innovation of the EXTRA series is that it
combines real learning with a genuinely entertaining format. The series covers all the main programs of study and grammatical areas needed for
success learning beginning French.
1. L'ARRIVÉE DE SAM 2. SAM FAIT DU SHOPPING 3. SAM A UN RENDEZ-VOUS 4. SAM TROUVE DU TRAVAIL 5. UNE ÉTOILE EST NÉE
6. LE JOUR DU LOTO 7. LA JUMELLE 8. LA COUSINE DE LA CONCIERGE 9. DU BOULOT POUR SAM ET NICO 10. ANNIE PROTESTE
11. LES VACANCES 12. FOU DE FOOT 13. UN MARIAGE DANS L'AIR
Teacher’s Guide and Answer Sheet
2002 - 2003 | 13 x 25 min. | Subjects: Education, Language and Literature, French Language
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THE TRADESMEN : MAKING AN ART OF WORK
THE TRADESMEN: MAKING AN ART OF WORK is an exploratory social documentary that portrays the real life work, idiosyncrasies, and personal
convictions of a multitude of Baltimore tradesmen. The documentary recognizes the essential contributions that these working professionals
provide, and displays many of the challenges they face. Their stories are combined with academic analysis of the socioeconomic aspects related
to the trades in modern America.
The film is divided into 6 segments:
1. WE HAVE WAGED A WAR ON WORK (16:10 min.)
2. THE APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE (16:10 min.)
3. EVERYDAY CREATIVITY (17:04 min.)
4. THE DEINDUSTRIALIZATION OF AMERICA (14:49 min.)
5. THE EDUCATIONAL TOOLBOX (7:43 min.)
6. NEW FRONTIERS (16:33 min.)
Subjects: Education, Business and Labour, Careers and Professions
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ENVIRONMENT
We know the problems that
compromise our future …
Some of us already know
how to solve them.
AWARD
WINNER
Gémeaux – Best documentary series 2012
ARCHITECTS OF CHANGE
Best seller
Architects of Change is a 30-part series that uncovers today's new types of pioneers. They are farmers, chemists, architects, doctors, tradesmen
and bankers who are looking for and using innovative solutions to counteract the threats weighing against our future. Far from being political
or economical militants, they are, above all, entrepreneurs. They have decided to undertake new ways of obtaining sustainable and lasting
growth for mankind and our planet.
2009-2012 | 30 x 52 min.
Subjects: Environment, The Arts, Business and Labour, Society and Culture, Agriculture and Food
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1. GROWTH THE GREEN WAY
2. SPREADING HOPE
3. PHILANTHROPY AND CAPITALISM: AN UNLIKELY MARRIAGE?
4. THE NEED OF BIODIVERSITY
5. THE RIGHT TO BE HEALTHY
6. NOTHING IS LOST
7. TO INNOVATE IS TO IMITATE
8. MADE TO LAST
9. ECONOMICS OF TASTE
10. THE TRADITIONAL AND THE NEW
11. WHERE THERE’S HOPE, THERE’S MONEY
12. WATER: A RESSOURCE, A CHALLENGE
13. ENERGY FOR CHANGE
14. TOURISM TAKES ITS TOLL
15. CHANGING TOWNS
16. REINVENTING THAT «COMMUNITY SPIRIT»
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17. CULTURE AS A RESSOURCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
18. TOWARDS THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS
19. HIGH HOPES FOR WOMEN
20. REBUILDING WITH OUR OWN HANDS
FOCUS ON CANADA
21. THE VISIONARIES
22. TEXTILES AND MATERIALS
23. ECONOMY WITH A HUMAN APPROACH
24. PAINTING THE TOWN GREEN
25. ARCHITECTS OF TASTE
26. ENERGY FOR TOMORROW
27. CUTTING-EDGE GARDENERS
28. RESTORING COMMUNITIES THROUGH ART
29. GREEN DOLLARS
30. SEIZE THE INVISIBLE
ENVIRONMENT
Waste your life
Plastic and electronic waste, old medicines thrown into the sewage
water… When buried, this waste seeps into our groundwater, and
resurfaces in the water we drink. When incinerated, it spreads noxious
fumes in the air, which we end up breathing...
Around the world, the race to turn waste into viable resources has begun.
Today’s waste may well be the treasure mines of tomorrow. This
informative and engrossing documentary takes us to countries like Japan,
Spain, France, Switzerland, Scotland, Belgium and even to the European
Space Agency’s laboratories to come up with an optimistic list of the
solutions of the future. We watch how airplanes can be converted into
children’s scooters, we see how houses can be built out of recycled tires
and we learn how marine waste can be detected using homing carp …
Proof that we do possess one truly inexhaustible and completely
recyclable resource: human innovation.
Subjects: Sustainable Development, Political Science, Society and
Culture, Social Issues
GREENPEACE : THE STORY
The creation of Greenpeace is probably the most exciting and heroic
environmental adventure of the 20th century. Not only has Greenpeace
literally invented the concept of ecology, it has also changed people’s
mentalities and international politics forever.
This documentary takes an in-depth look at the functioning and the
strategy of Greenpeace, and analyses the new challenges it has to face.
2011 | 52 min.| Price A: $235 | Price B: $90
Subjects: Sustainable Development, Political Science, Society and
Culture, Social Issues
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ENVIRONMENT
NATURE INC.
NEW
13-17
Nature is priceless, but what if we try to put a price on it? What does it cost in cold hard-cash not to preserve ecosystems and how much can be
made by investing in it? This series reveals just how much nature is worth to our economy ... how a decrease in the honeybee population can
threaten the $2 billion almond industry in California; how preserved watersheds provide renewable power and clean water to vital industries…
1. A FRUIT AND NUT CASE 2. TREES ON TAP 3. THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED 4. CORAL CASHPOINT 5. SLIPPERY SLOPES 6. BLOOM OR BUST
7. NATURAL PREVENTION 8. DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY 9. UNION OF GREEN 10. ONE SEXY TUBER 11. STANDING PROFITS 12. NOW
AND FOREVER
13. ALIEN INVASION 14. CONSERVATION FROM CHAOS? 15. HARD RAIN 16. HARD RAIN II 17. THE 21 GIGATONNE TIMEBOMB
2008-2011 | 17 x 22 min.
Subjects: Agri-Environment, Sustainable Development, Agriculture and Food, Plant Culture
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World challenge
Broadcasted on BBC World, this series features projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown creativity and innovation at
the grassroots level. With very modest means but a lot of enthusiasm and know-how, one can improve the situation of one’s community or the
quality of its environment. WORLD CHALLENGE is about championing bright ideas which really make a difference.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
Part 5:
Part 6:
Part 7:
Part 8:
A BRIGHT IDEA | EMISSION CONTROL | OFF GRID AID
FUNGI TOWN | OLD SCHOOL THAI | AFGHAN HANDS
NO BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH | LOVE N'HAITI | SOLAR SISTERS
NOTHING WASTED | FUEL CELL | JIKO RESCUE
DOUBLE COOKED | BURN AFTER EATING | IN A NUTSHELL
OK CORAL | SAVING FROM A RAINY DAY | CYBER CAPITAL
THE ONLY WAY IS UP | GROWTH CYCLE | A CLASS APART
ONE REEF AT A TIME | PASS IT ON | CHARGE ON THE LIGHT BRIGADE
NEW
Parts 5-8
2010-2011| 8 x 26 min. | Subjects: Business and Labour, Industry and Commerce, Sustainable Development, Ecology
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GEOGRAPHY
USA – THE DEEP SOUTH
From the State of Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico, across Alabama and then down the Mississippi to its mouth, “USA, the Deep South” is a
journey of encounter with those that cherish the Deep South. Elgin Wells combines his two passions: music and stunt flying. Pilot, musician,
poet, he is one of the few in America to present nighttime aerial displays.
At Natchez, on the banks of the Mississippi, Pat Martin and Gay Guercio open the doors to Stanton Hall and Longwood, two magnificent
mansions in the heart of the old cotton plantations.
On Avery Island, the descendants of Edmund McIlhenny produce Tabasco, a simple recipe based on Mexican spices that has remained
unchanged for 150 years.
In the Atchafalaya Basin, an extraordinary nature reserve that is a paradise for birds, crawfish and alligators, Roy Blanchard and Shane Doucet
are fighting to preserve their identity as Acadians, descendants of the first immigrants, who still speak old French.
And finally, as Hurricane Isaac approaches, a most unlikely encounter with Chris and Steve, crab fishermen in the swamps on the shores of the
Gulf of Mexico.
2013 | 52 min. |Price A : $235 | Price B : $90
Subjects: Physical Geography, United States, Society and Culture, Communities, Sports and Recreation, Tourism
LOS ANGELES FROM THE SKY
Episode from: UNITED STATES FROM THE SKY
Sprawling over more than 100 kilometers between ocean and mountains and splintered into a host of neighborhoods lies Los Angeles, a city with
a population of more than ten million and the second biggest metropolis in the United States. Without a real city center and very few skyscrapers
for a city its size, Los Angeles is an enigma sitting on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, an American city like no other.
Subjects: Human Geography, United States, Sports and Recreation, Tourism
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HEALTH, SAFETY AND
MEDICINE
BODY LANGUAGE
What is the connection between the smile of the Mona Lisa and the behaviour of a terrorist? Discover the secrets of nonverbal behaviour in
Body Language, as experts in the USA, Canada and Europe pioneer the use of new technology to decipher our unconscious messages. Our body,
which can decode another person’s state of mind in a flash, is a powerful radar and a non-stop transmitter that we cannot totally control. BODY
LANGUAGE reveals new discoveries that have wide ranging impacts on our personal lives and on the society we live in.
Subjects: Psychology and Psychiatry, Media and Communications
IN GOD WE TRUST
How do you stop the spread of HIV when prevention is a sin?
IN GOD WE TRUST highlights the effects of ideologically driven funding on HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Uganda.
Despite millions of USAID dollars being poured into the country every year, the HIV prevalence rate is currently around 7% and rising.
International funding has been crucial to the treatment of those infected with the virus, but has it been as effective for prevention? For every
person receiving anti-retroviral drugs in Uganda, five more are infected with the virus. And with major USAID funding being diverted into
“Abstinence Only” programs, the access to accurate prevention information and distribution of condoms is restricted.
The church plays an important role in the lives of many Ugandans, and influences a large percentage of HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Many
Ugandan pastors, influenced by the growing American Pentecostal Born Again movement, promote “Abstinence Only” and faithfulness as the
only HIV prevention measures. While sex outside marriage is proclaimed promiscuous and sinful, this message contradicts cultural patterns and
social conditions in current Ugandan society.
The film illustrates the stories of Ugandan health and human rights professionals, pastors, teachers and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. It
highlights the issues faced when international funding, intended to improve lives and to prevent the spread of the virus, is driven by Christian
ideology.
Subjects: Religion, Society and Culture, Diseases, Disorders and Disabilities
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HEALTH, SAFETY AND
MEDICINE
VIVO: BEST DRUG IS LIFE
An in-depth look at the community of San Patrignano, the largest drug rehabilitation and detox centre in the world. This centre, located near
Bologna in Italy, boasts a 2000-person capacity and has been offering its 4-year therapeutic programme free of cost since its inception in 1978.
The centre’s extraordinary success rate is a result of its unwillingness to consider addiction as an illness, and its non-classical therapeutic
approach that aims to eliminate dependence without drug substitution.
This film follows the lives of five community residents in particular, each from different countries, as they recount their journey of struggle and
hope.
Subjects: Addictions, Therapeutics and Pharmacology
THE COMMON LOT
Light at the end of the tunnel, dear ones greeting us, a feeling of eternal well-being…for those people who have returned from Death’s door claim
they have experienced a Near Death Experience. Given their bizarre similarities with certain notions of the Christian faith, the Catholic Church is in
the witness box. What do these NDEs mean? Do they confirm or contradict the Christian faith? Should we take a fresh look at our notions of
judgement, hell, purgatory and paradise? Witnesses, scientists and clerics give their views and lift a corner of the veil.
A film to see further… and clearer.
Subjects: Psychology and Psychiatry, Society and Culture, Manners and Customs, Religion
DO TEDDY BEARS GO TO HEAVEN?
In an attempt to break the isolation and certain taboos of families confronted with the death of their child, four families along with a team of
medical experts, who have supported them, have generously agreed to express their thoughts and how they felt throughout this difficult
experience. Among the questions asked is whether the end of life should be at home or in the hospital.
"The film has proved to be an excellent tool for initiating dialogue as well as training of medical teams." Comment from e-hospice.com -
English subtitles for native speakers
Subjects: Medicine, Diseases, Disorders and Disabilities, Psychology and Psychiatry, Society and Culture, Children and Youth,
Family
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HISTORY
ELIZABETH II AND CANADA, A PORTRAIT
In 2012, the Canadian government commissioned a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, by artist Phil Richards, to celebrate her 60 year reign. As
the features of Elizabeth II are revealed gradually under the brush of the artist, we discover who she is and what she represents for Canadians.
Interviews with specialists allow us to discover the main workings of the Canadian Constitutional Monarchy, and the enduring bonds between
the Queen and Canada.
The film also highlights the 2011 royal tour with the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge and the last visit of Her Majesty the Queen in 2010.
Presented in its full length and in 4 thematic chapters that could be viewed individually:
1. Elizabeth II and the Royal Tours
2. From Queen Victoria to Elizabeth II: Traditions and Canadian Identity
3. Canada : A Constitutional Monarchy
4. Elizabeth II : 60 Years of Dedication
2012 | 52 min. & (4 x 15 min.) | Price A: $255 | Price B: $100
Subjects: Canadian History, Political Science, The Arts, Drawing, Painting and Print, Biography, History and Politics, Women
THE HEIRS OF CHATEAUGUAY
In 1812, the war between England and the United States included thousands of French Canadians who fought to defend their homeland. This war
created heroes such as Charles-Michel de Salaberry and his Canadian Voltigeurs, whose legacy lives on in the Voltigeurs de Québec. Louis-Joseph
Papineau, a young militia captain in 1812, was fighting on another front, that of democracy. French Canada was experiencing a period of political
tension which would peak in 1837 with the Lower Canada Rebellion.
The DVD is chaptered :
1. The film (58 m 20 s)
2. Voltigeurs de Québec: Tradition (19 m 19 s)
3. Salaberry: Strategy (17 m 42 s)
4. Papineau: Democracy (32 m 05 s)
Original French version subtitled in English
Subjects: Modern History, Canadian History, Quebec History
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HISTORY
TRAINS OF LIFE
Kees Vanderheyden, now a children's author living in Quebec, tells a class
of children his story about the brutal German occupation of Holland in
World War II that he lived through and how his mother took in a skinny
little girl from Austria named Traudi Berndl as part of and inspiring project
organized by visionary individuals in the Red Cross. 180 000 traumatized
children travelled by train from Germany, Austria and Hungary to stay
with families in Western Europe. 60 years later, Kees, began a search for
the little girl who had so memorably marked his youth. It took him 5 years
to find Traudi. The film gives place to the children to express their
emotional reactions to Kees touching story.
Subjects: Modern History, Society and Culture, Social Issues
BLACK HEART, WHITE MEN
Black Heart, White Men relives the story of the colonization of Central
Africa from 1480 to the present day, outlining the ties that continue to
link the region to the West by exploring key historical stages: the arrival of
the first Europeans in Africa and the establishment of trade; the religious
conquest; the abuses of slavery; the dividing up of Africa between
imperial powers; economic excesses; the controlling of local elites; failed
independence movements, predatory dictatorships etc...
Subjects: Modern History, Africa
THE BLINDING SEA
Who was Roald Amundsen and how can the prodigious success of this
Norwegian polar explorer be explained?
The Blinding Sea offers an eye-witness perspective on many of the places
explored by Amundsen: from on board the Dutch three-masted bark
Europa travelling from Cape Horn to Antactica, on the Canadian research
icebreaker Amundsen in the Beaufort Sea, by dog teams in Alaska, the
Yukon and Nunavut, on the tundra with caribou, muskox and polar bears,
and along the Antarctic Peninsula with Gentoo penguins and killer whales.
The film focuses on the close relationships he enjoyed with aboriginal
people, the lessons he learned from them, and how the people closest to
him – Norwegians, Inuit and Siberian Chukchi – remember him to this day.
Subjects: Modern History, Biography, History and Politics
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HISTORY
KAPYONG
The Battle at Kapyong, April 1951 - Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand
troops of the Korean War hold back an invading Chinese army which aims
to drive the foreigners into the sea. Often in total darkness, individual is
pitted against individual for the control of a valley - the traditional
invasion route to Seoul. What follows becomes the turning point of
China's spring offensive and decisive moment in the Korean War.
This documentary uses reconstruction, archival imagery, maps and film,
plus commentary by military historians from both sides of the war including retired Chinese soldiers in Taiwan.
Subjects: Modern History, Asia
THE LAST DAYS OF THE USSR
Moscow, 31 December 1991: the Red Flag of the Kremlin is pulled down
and replaced by the three-coloured banner of Russia, marking the end of
the Soviet Union and of its ideologies.
Illustrated with testimonies from top protagonists and Mikhail Gorbatchev
himself, the documentary recounts, day by day, the critical last two years
that led to the fall of the largest and one of the most totalitarian empires
of the 20th century.
Subjects: Contemporary History, Asia, Europe
Shadows within
Cambodians over the age of 40 are all survivors of the great national
trauma that was Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. A quarter of the
population did not survive.
After her brother’s death, Thida, a young Quebecer, whose parents
survived the red regime, travels to the land of her ancestors, in order to
understand what lies behind the Malay family. Her trip to Cambodia
coincides with a trial, sponsored by the United Nations, of five former
Khmer Rouge, that plunges the country into the heart of its deepest
wounds.
Subjects: Law and Justice, Human Rights, Society and Culture,
Asia
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LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE
Every 1 in 6 people
will speak Mandarin
HOOKED ON HUAYU
What happens when you invite the world to speak up? Statistically, every 1 in 6 people will speak Mandarin. To the other five, the Chinese
language may seem intriguing yet elusive, an ancient language they can’t quite get their tongues around.
Accompany the host, Melissa Hyak, as she engages her guests in cultural and popular activities and unearths the quirks, nuances, roots and
literary allusions surrounding the Chinese language. Whether “guoyu”, “putonghua” or “huayu”, HOOKED ON HUAYU will show that you don’t
have to pick up a book to uncover the language’s beauty and intricacies.
2009-2011 | 16 x 23 min.
Subjects: Language and Literature, Other Language, Society and Culture, Manners and Customs, Asia
Price A
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Series 1
1. News and internet language in China | Discovering signature dishes | Multi-media and paper cutting
2. Collecting chinese headgear | Discovering fine food at the Kowloon Club and having high tea | Debates with the best
3. Chinese ethnic dance | The guanzi, a difficult musical intrument to master | Chinese seal carving and Chinese painting
4. The smartest in the land | Opera and costumes | Walking on stilts and battle of the wits
5. Coloured sand painting and red silk dance | The art of food carving | Well known tenor Li Lie Gang and Toy Museum
6. Meet Ms Shih, career diplomat from Taiwan | Learn about hieroglyphics with a multi-media Taiwanese artist | Prepare 4-seasonal Taiwanese
dishes
7. Jade jewellery, tea brewing and bonsai | Art-restoring, tea brewing and tasting | Chinese physical art form
8. Confucious says! | Joy of music and the hulusi and martial arts | Skit written by playwright, Lim Hai Yen and figurine pastries
Series 2
9. Seeing is believing with an Indian family | Learning Chinese can be a lot of fun! | Guided tour of a museum
10. Martial arts from a master | Everything is in a name and seeking divine help at the temple | Reflexology and opera singing
11. Ancient music and dim sum | Heaven and hell | Love - let us count the ways
12. Meet a multi-talented Japanese TCM doctor | Japanese style tea ceremony and lion dance | Chinese social etiquette, red tortoise cakes,
Ikebana
13. Gastronomical and cultural adventure | Learn Chinese fan dance | Curtains up and fans down, finger-painting
14. Visit the Kong Hwa School and sample Hala Chinese food | Cross-talk, a linguistic art form | Acting in Mandarin, art of dough figurines
15. Discovering middle eastern drums | Cooking hot Sichuan and cooling off with herbal teas | Art of Chinese puppetry
16. Austrian sauerkraut and sausages Chinese style | Paper cutting and che-ling, Chinese yoyo | Taiji sword
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LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE
MORDECAI RICHLER, THE LAST OF THE WILD JEWS
Scripted by Richler’s new biographer, writer Charlie Foran, in collaboration with the film's director, Francine Pelletier, the film looks at Mordecai
Richler, the man and the writer, in a new way, as one of a generation of gifted, angry Jewish writers and intellectuals who dominated much of
North American culture from the ‘50s to the end of the century: Saul Bellow, Irving Layton, Lenny Bruce, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer and others.
Richler, like the others, was a « wild Jew ». Born to immigrant parents and raised on a heady mix of talmudic teachings and comic book
superheroes, later inspired by Isaac Babel’s jewish underworld, Richler was a natural agitator and provocateur. Like his famous American
counterparts, he had the courage to rattle the cage of the complacent and the sacred while leaving an indelible mark on the society around
them. Volatile, often contradictory, bereft of nuance, Mordecai Richler was also sensible, engaging, and unnervingly forthright. Richler was an
undeniably rich asset to Canada’s cultural and literary life.
Subjects: English Literature, Biography
EMPIRE OF THE WORD
Eight years in the making, EMPIRE OF THE WORD is a compelling look inside the act of reading and traces its impact on more than five thousand
years of human history.
Introduced and narrated by one of the world's great readers, Canadian writer Alberto Manguel, the series traces reading's origins; examines how
we learn to read; exposes censors' attempts to prevent our reading; and finally, proposes what the future might hold for this most human of
creative acts.
1. THE MAGIC OF READING
2. LEARNING TO READ
3. FORBIDDEN READING
4. THE FUTURE OF READING
Nominated for
3 Geminis
2010
2009 | 4 x 52 min.
Subjects: International Literature
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$90
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LAW AND
JUSTICE
Argentina, the 500 stolen babies of the dictatorship
Between 1976 and 1983, during the military dictatorship in Argentina, the
lives of thousands of citizens became a horrific nightmare when squads of
«special forces» rounded-up political opponents of the regime and sent
them to be tortured and then killed in secret death camps. Young
pregnant women were kept aside in appalling conditions until they gave
birth, and their babies, the "little angels" as they were cynically called by
the torturers, together with other abducted children, became "war booty"
and were handed over to the military and their friends. This film is the
story of the relentless struggle by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
to retrace those abducted children.
GOLDEN FIPA 2013
Grand Prix – FIGRA International Film Festival
Subject: Human Rights
HELL’S ANGELS AGAINST BANDIDOS
Hell’s Angels or Bandidos? Although both are easily recognizable by their
black jackets, these biker gangs are by far the most violent, secretive and
organized in the world. They are also rivals fighting to hold their
territories.
The film takes us from Sturgis, Dakota to France, Germany and Denmark
where the Bandidos are on trial against the Hell’s Angels, after both gangs
were involved in a rival war. It’s the first time, they have agreed to open
their doors to the public.
Learn more +
Subjects: Criminology, Society and Culture, Lifestyles
HUNTING MLADIC, INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AT WORK
Central to the film is Serge Brammertz, prosecutor of the ICTY, the
International Criminal Tribunal for Ex-Yugoslavia. His obsession has finally
turned into reality with the arrest of General Ratko Mladic, a former
Bosnian Serb military leader, responsible for the massacre at Srebrenica,
who has avoided genocide charges for the last 15 years.
Patrick Remacle's film takes us behind the scenes of a dramatic event in
European history, the last genocide in Europe and the political lessons to
be learned from it. On May 26th 2011, Ratko Mladic was arrested and
extradited to The Hague. His trial began June 3rd, 2011.
Subjects: International Law and Justice, Human Rights,
Contemporary History, Europe
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MEDIA AND
COMMUNICATIONS
MY LIFE ON THE WEB
Internet, a tool for communication and exchange can also come back into our lives like a boomerang! Irrespective of age, more and more
Internet users are playing at,
“Do you want to be my friend?” and “My friends’ friends are my friends”.
Illustrated with photos and personal stories, our lives, loves and states of mind are posted and written down for everyone to see… forever.
Employers and headhunters have been quick to see the benefit in collecting as much personal information as possible in their new recruitment
techniques. In this era of globalisation, our lives are spread out on the web for all to see.
From San Francisco to the cyber-cafés of Berlin and Paris, MY LIFE ON THE WEB explores the world of social networks and questions the
dangers inherent in a space that can be entered with just a click.
Subjects: Media and Communications, Society and Culture, Lifestyles
THE REST OF MY LIFE IS FOR SALE
That parallel universe – living big online
A 23-year-old Chinese girl opens an online shore selling “the rest of her
life.” In her own words posted on the website: “It’s your right to
arrange my life, and it’s my duty to serve you. I’ll fulfil your wishes. I’ll
take pictures of the process and put them on my website so all people
will know how I live with your arrangements.” The price for her life? $1
dollar for 8 minutes, $3 dollars for an hour, and $15 for a day. Watch
as she undertakes a myriad of requests – from bringing cat food to an
old lady who takes care of 200 vagrant cats, to collecting 100 pictures
of 100 smiling men for a girl’s birthday. From the day she opened her
online store, she has been living two separate lives – one is her reality,
the other, her virtual world. An intriguing look on how new
technologies are redefining our lives.
Is being infamous in the virtual world just as desirable as being famous
in the real world? Why has “memes”, a perfectly respectable Greek
word that means the transmission of ideas and cultural phenomena,
come to be identified with ideas that are propagated through the
virtual world? America may be the birthplace of the internet but has
Asia taken control of it?
The film, THAT PARALLEL UNIVERSE, LIVING BIG ONLINE uses "old
media" to try and understand "new media". It analyses the truths and
untruths, trends and the phenomena of the parallel online universe
that has collided and become part of modern-day reality.
Subject: Media and Communications
Original Chinese version with English subtitles
Subjects: Media and Communications, Society and Culture,
Lifestyles, Asia
Winning Story from The Asian Pitch 2010
- A MediaCorp - NHK collaboration
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AWARD
WINNER
POLITICAL
SCIENCE
Selected at
FIPA 2013:
Creative
The BROtherhood : investigating the muslim brotherhood Document
ary
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, during a period that witnessed a revival of religious fundamentalism and
armed combat against Western, and in particular British occupation of the Arabic peninsula. According to al-Banna, contemporary Islam had
become corrupted by Western influences. These ideas brought them to power, in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood was born and in most
of the countries of the “Arab Spring” where aging nationalist dictators were deposed through popular uprisings.
Initially keeping a distance from popular demands for democracy, the Brotherhood benefitted from their first democratic election when
Mohammed Morsi came to power in Egypt in 2012 with 51% of the vote.
To understand the movement today we look back on its history and ideas through interviews with founding leaders and analysts.
English Subtitles
2013 | 52 min. ; 80 min.
Subjects: Government, Society and Culture, Communities
Price A
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52 min.
$235
$90
80 min.
$255
$100
A WORLD ON EDGE
End of credit based growth, financial madness, explosion of public debt, runaway population overgrowth, a widening gap between the rich and the
poor, sprawling urbanisation, climate change… today, all the warning signals are flashing red. We are living through the most unsettling upheaval of
checks and balances the planet has ever seen. While most of us, especially in the west, are worried, others see this as a renaissance - an historical
opportunity for the advent of a new kind of harmony in world relations.
Bilingual version (English and French subtitles and narration)
Subjects: Global Politics, Business and Labour, Economy
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POLITICAL
SCIENCE
Every state has within
itself the ability to be
an abusive state.
GHOSTS
Three Canadian Arab men are detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and Egypt. Upon their release they return to Canada
struggling to find some answers.
An internal national inquiry is struck to investigate the role of Canadian agencies and officials in their cases. The results of this inquiry, the first
one in Canadian history to be conducted in almost complete secrecy, were that Canadian agencies such as the national police (RCMP), the
intelligence services (CSIS) and the foreign affairs department (DFAIT), were complicit in all three cases.
The camera team follows the lives and cases of the men for a year and a half as they fight to leave the horror of torture behind them. It is the
first time that they speak about the circumstances surrounding their detention and torture extensively. They discuss the effects of the torture
as well as their confusion as to how and why a democratic country such as Canada would be involved in internationally condemned acts of
torture.
2010 | 54 min. | Price A: $235| Price B: $90
Subjects: Geopolitics, Human Rights, Canada
STATE OF LIMBO
What do physicist Albert Einstein, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and dissident writer Aleksander Solzhenitsyn have in common? All were
“stateless” for some part of their lives.
According to UN estimation, there are around 12 million stateless people in the world on today. "Statelessness" can have many causes, from
war to ethnic discrimination to problematic laws. Stateless people are typically prevented from participating fully in society – lacking access to
rights and services that the rest of us take for granted.
In this program we go to Asia, Africa, Europe and the Pacific to hear the stories of stateless people – what’s it like to be citizens of nowhere?
And as the UN celebrates the 50th Anniversary of its 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, we ask what governments and others
are doing to help them find a way out of their ‘state of limbo’.
2011 | 52 min. | Price A: $235| Price B: $90
Subjects: Human Rights, Citizenship
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POLITICAL
SCIENCE
spratlys - dangerous ground
Somewhere off the coasts of Vietnam and Malaysia, next to the
Philippines, in what is known as the South China Sea lie the Spratly Islands,
a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands that form a
ragged archipelago.
Whoever owns the Spratlys holds a geostrategic key to the region. The
vying countries have decided to occupy the terrain by sending civilian and
military personnel to survive on these remote fragments of rock, willing
hostages of a diplomatic tug of war. They are playing out a tragicomic
fable. The Spratlys are a lawless zone, a paradise for traffickers and
smugglers of all kinds. The Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipinos maintain
excellent relations in their common efforts to plunder the regions
resources.
Subjects: Geopolitics, Asia
INDONESIA DEMOCRACY, HOW FAR SO FAR
Will Indonesia become the largest democracy in the Muslim world or will
it succumb to its demons?
Young, unstable and wealthy, Indonesia sits at the crossroads of many
different fracture lines and at the center of many power struggles. With
235 million inhabitants on its 2 million km² area, Indonesia is a semi-circle
scattered over nearly 5000 km. It is the largest nation in Southeast Asia
and also the world’s largest Muslim country.
Subjects: Government, Asia
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SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Human settlement of
Mars is the next giant
leap for humankind.
ONE WAY ASTRONAUT
Want to spend the rest of your life on Mars? The Mars One initiative plans to establish a permanent settlement on Mars in 2023 and is looking
for future astronauts. No experience necessary.
Bas Lansdorp, co-founder and CEO of the Netherland based group says, «It will be the biggest media spectacle the world has ever seen.» But
there is a catch, this trip is one way only. The total budget is 6 billion dollars and Mars One has to fund the project by producing a reality TV
show - live coverage of the mission which will be broadcast around the world. The initiative is one of love and hate, admiration and
controversy. Mars One has received tens of thousands of testimonials from followers every day, yet at the same time many people around the
globe abhor the idea.
The documentary portrays aspiring astronauts from Germany, America, Brazil and Belgium. They talk about motivates them, and about leaving
their parents, children and loved ones behind in a mission they cannot refuse.
Subject: Astronomy and Space Science
a nobel face - Christian de duve
NOBEL FACE - CHRISTIAN DE DUVE, is an intimate look at the life and work of the 1974 winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and founder of the De
Duve Institute, by his granddaughter Aurélie Wijnants, the film’s director.
Wijnants introduces us to the figure of her grandfather with tenderness and humanity - a balance between the intimate and the universal, both life
story and a broader look at the world. The film follows his research career, his quest to create the Institute and his development as an author.
Through this great mind of the 20th century and his take on issues at the heart of our concerns today, the film gives us new perspectives and food
for thought on some fundamental topics: religion, conflicts, the fate of the planet and the future of mankind.
Subjects: Natural Science, Biography
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SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
100% conductive : superconductors
On the 8th April 1911, while observing mercury at the temperature of liquid helium -269°C, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered a new and
surprising physics phenomenon: superconductivity! This phenomenon is made apparent by two remarkable effects. Superconductors not only
conduct an electric current perfectly, they also expel magnetic fields and make magnets levitate. A hundred years after its discovery,
superconductivity still remains a huge enigma. Many laboratories are concentrating their research on it, and it represents one of most essential
issues of modern physics. This dynamic area of study has already been awarded thirteen Nobel Prizes! A variety of applications already exist
that could change our world from medical imagery to levitating trains, and future applications like energy storage to quantum computers .
This film treats the properties of superconductors, recent progress in research, and the existing and future applications of this extraordinary
phenomenon.
Bonus: "8 avril 1911, the Coldest Day" (10min.) tells how supraconductivity was discovered in Heike Kamerling Onneset's laboratory.
Subject: Physics
Hydrogen at the wheel
We know that fossil fuels contribute to the increase of greenhouse gas emissions and have an impact on climate change. Human activity,
particularly transportation, including cars, contribute significantly to this pollution. We need to look for clean and renewable energy choices for
tomorrow.
The film presents an overview of research being done in France on hydrogen energy for transport. It shows the obstacles to the emergence of a
mass market for hydrogen-powered cars and the solutions that are emerging in the laboratories.
Subject: Physics, Environment, Ecology, Technology, Transport
ALL ABOUT GLUE
Glue is part of our daily lives, but oddly, it is also at the heart of a vast unknown scientific problem. A physicist, a chemist and a researcher in
mechanics provide three approaches to understanding the mechanisms of adhesion. We have all been faced with difficulties when trying to glue
things down. Using different experiments, the researchers explain why it works does or not. What is the physical adhesion phenomena involved
in the process? What is the ideal formula for good glue?
English subtitles
Subjects: Physics, Chemistry
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SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
INGENUITY – ENGINEERING GROUND BREAKER
Asia is currently witnessing a feverish pace to build, build, and build. Each country is trying to outbuild each other for the tallest building in the
world. First it was the Petronas Towers, then it was the Shanghai Financial Centre, then it was the Taipei 101, and now it’s the Burj Dubai. The
competition is now so intense that the developers behind the Burj Dubai are withholding the final height of the building until the actual unveiling
ceremony to prevent others from beating them to the top.
Mega construction projects may seem like new phenomena in the current climate. However, such practices are nothing new in Asia, as the
continent has been home to many mega projects from centuries past, inspiring similar construction in other parts of the world.
INGENUITY - ENGINEERING GROUND BREAKERS is a 8-part series which looks at engineering marvels currently being undertaken in Asia. Juxtaposed
against an archetypal giant from the past, we are now witnessing a modern revival.
1. BURJ DUBAI : The Burj Dubai holds the title as the tallest man-made structure ever built.
2. MARINA BARRAGE: On a fully urbanised island the size of Singapore, water scarcity is a dire issue. The solution is the construction of an urban
reservoir, the first of its kind in the world.
3. KOREAN TANKERS : Tankers are the workhorses of our modern economy and the largest of these are built in Korea.
4. MUMBAI HIGHWAY: For years, the roads of Mumbai were a hotbed of congestion and overcrowding. Now, a dynamic link road promises to ease
the city’s traffic woes.
5. BEIJING AIRPORT : The largest airport terminal in the world in Beijing is an engineering marvel that nonetheless pays strict adherence to the
principles of Chinese fengshui, and marks a new footnote in an age-old tradition of building big.
6. MARMARAY PROJECT: It is the world’s deepest immersed tunnel. Spanning across Asia and Europe, the Marmaray Project promises to ease
Istanbul’s decades-old traffic woes.
7. PALM ISLANDS: The self-declared 8th Wonder of the World, the Palm trilogy is the largest man-made group of islands in the world and a credible
testimony of human mastery over nature.
8. THREE GORGES DAM: The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydro-electric dam in the world, a sheer engineering marvel.
2011 | 8 x 30 min.
Subjects: Technology, Engineering, The Arts, Architecture
Single
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$70
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$475
SOCIETY AND
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
CULTURE
ENCOUNTERS
In 2008, Nancy Bolduc, director of the Jacques-Cartier National Park
decided to conduct a real encounter between the nations of Quebec.
Despite their 400 year old “common” history, they did not really know
each other. This project now takes place each year and allows young
Aboriginal and non-natives to discover their territory and to learn more
about themselves. During the summer solstice, the film follows a group of
young Innu, Huron and Quebecers as they travel the ancestral trail of the
Jesuits, 310 km of land and water which links Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec
City.
GOLDEN
PALM
AWARD
Original French version with English Subtitles
Subjects: Aboriginal Peoples, Children and Youth, Quebec
TRUE WINNERS
Joé Juneau, a native from Pont-Rouge in Quebec and Olympic medalist is
one of the few professional hockey players to hold a university degree. He
was elected by La Presse and Radio-Canada as Personality of the Year in
2007 for his implication in Nunavik. Since 2006, he has been working as
recreation consultant in Kuujjuaq. We follow the kids through the 20082009 season of the Nunavik Select Pee-Wee team, from the very first
training camp in Kuujjuaq all the way through to the Quebec International
Tournament. Here, hockey is more than just a sport, it is a tool to fight the
high dropout and crime rate and to stimulate these young Inuit children’s
sense of leadership.
2009 | 52 min. ; 72 min.
Subjects: Aboriginal Peoples, Children and Youth, Sports
Price A
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52 min.
$235
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72 min.
$255
$100
QALLUNAALIAQPALLIANIQ - hEADING SOUTH
This film explores the stories of Inuit “migrants” to the South: their
dreams, their accomplishments, their preoccupations, the paths they
follow and their interactions with the outside world. This documentary
offers a different point of view from the stereotypical representations of
the Inuit – addiction, alcoholism, vagrancy – that we’re presented with on
a daily basis. These are the representations that the Inuit are trying to
overcome, while steadfastly refusing to be depicted as victims. A new
generation, proud and determined, is seeing the light, resolutely turning
to the future and all the challenges that that implies.
Subjects: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada, Political Science, Emigration and Immigration
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SOCIETY AND
COMMUNITIES
CULTURE
Fouad’s dream
Fouad Sahyoun was born to a Arab-Christian family in Haifa in 1943. His family was forced to leave the country in the Palestinian exodus in 1948,
when he was four years old. They established themselves in Canada. Fouad has “made it” in his adopted country. He is a proud father of three,
runs a thriving real-estate business, and fulfills his duties as a city councilor. He also raises funds for the Canadian Palestinian Foundation and
lobbies the federal government to push the United Nations to recognize the Palestinian’s right to return to their homeland.
Fouad wants to go back to Haifa and reestablish himself in the city of his birth. He remembers the city as a jewel of Muslim-Jewish-Christian
multi-faith and multi-ethnic harmony, before 1948. The film’s story is built around Fouad and his wife Haala’s trip back to Haifa, and his dream to
build a business there.
Fouad Sahyoun’s dream to establish business and cultural links between Montreal and Haifa, is fraught with difficulties - familial as well as
political. But he believes that entrepreneurship can succeed where diplomacy and war have failed.
Subjects: Multiculturalism, Communities
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SOCIETY AND
LIFESTYLES
CULTURE
BHUTAN , BETWEEN MYTH AND REALITY
We set out to discover the small kingdom of Bhutan, in the heart of the Himalayas. For as long as can be remembered, this country has been
the object of many a fantasy. Many myths and legends belonging to the past nevertheless remain very much alive in the hearts of travellers
setting out to explore the country. Thanks to the GNH - Gross National Happiness – everyone lives in perfect harmony. The painted phalluses
on the walls seem to serve as constant reminders of the existence of Drukpa Kunley, a crazy Yogi whom is said to have converted the people of
Bhutan to Buddhism through the use of methods deemed unorthodox to say the least. And then we are told of the yeti, the abominable
snowman, who’s said to inhabit the wilderness of Eastern Bhutan. From the country’s capital, Timphu, to the confines of the forgotten valleys
of Merak and Saktang; the further we go, the more we learn about Bhutan’s lesser known, mysterious side…
Warning – Sexual explicit images (phallic symbols)
Subjects: Communities, Manners and Customs, Lifestyles, Asia
THE GENIE IN THE LIGHT BULB
Today 1,600,000 people live according to the rhythm of the sun, for they have no access to electricity. Their life-style is minimalist, ritualized;
each individual keeps to his or her role. But people are struggling to change this situation.
This film tells the story of the arrival of electricity in Hathine, a tiny, isolated village in the forbidden mountains of Northern Laos -- one of the
last Communist countries in the world, on the borders of China and Vietnam. One sunny morning the village headman announces that electrical
current will soon arrive and with it will come comfort, development, modernity and wealth. The village is in turmoil.
Refrigerators will now keep food fresh for longer and children will do their homework under the streetlamps. The first shops strung with multicoloured lights appear, and in them the first cold drinks that any villager has tasted. Electricity brings progress, unquestionably, but does that
progress bring happiness?
English Subtitles
Subjects: Lifestyles, Social Issues, Asia
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SELECTED AT
FIPATEL
2013
SOCIETY AND
LIFESTYLES
CULTURE
NOMADS , THE GENERATION AFTER
In the Indian region of Laddkah, in the heart of the Himalayas, a few thousands nomadic shepherds still live with their herds at an altitude of
4500 meters.
Through the daily life of a Tibetan family, we try to understand the deep changes these people are confronting. Their 14 years old daughter is
studying in a Tibetan school and lives in a self-administered children village. In a nomadic settlement the routine is grueling, especially during
winter when temperatures, even in the shelter of a tent, can fall below minus 30° Celsius. This is an existence closer to survival than normal life.
Subjects: Social Issues, Manners and Customs, Communities, Family, Asia
WINGS on HIS HEELS
On August 18, 2000, 45 year old, Jean Béliveau took up an unprecedented challenge: go around the world on foot, in one go, without returning
home to Canada once. This is the story of his 75,000 km journey, to which he devoted 11 years of his life.
Racked by a deep existential crisis, this neon sign salesman voluntarily withdrew himself from society in search of the essence of life.
At the end of 2009, after 9 years of walking and more than 60,000 km behind him, steeped in the culture of the 60 countries in which he set
foot… Jean Béliveau completed his world-wide walk in Montreal, on October 16 2011.
Original French Version Subtitled in English
Subjects: Media and Communications, Lifestyles
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SOCIETY AND
SOCIAL ISSUES
CULTURE
BLOOD OF NIGERIA
For fifty years, Nigeria has been an El Dorado for oil companies around the
world. An El Dorado and a hell. As the fourth largest producer in OPEC, the
profits are huge and the conditions extreme.
Hostage-taking, corruption, attacks, massive pollution and environmental
destruction are the flip side of this industry. The Niger Delta is now one of
the most dangerous regions of the world. One of Africa’s most populous
country is a very sick giant.
Subjects: Business and Labour, Industry and Commerce, Social
Issues, Environment, Pollution, Africa
Angels of troubled paradise
AWARD
WINNER
Winning Story from The Asian Pitch 2010
- A MediaCorp - NHK collaboration
Many children in Kashmir, some of whose fathers have been killed,
arrested, or are missing, are forced to help their families survive. One such
boy is Aadil, who lives with his parents in an area referred to as the “Gaza
Strip” of Kashmir. He collects tear gas shells fired by police at protesters
and sells them to a scrap dealer. Because the scrap dealer won’t accept
the shells unless they are cleared of the explosive material, he must often
remove the detonator and take out the explosives from the shells by
hand. There is always the danger of it exploding, but as Aadil says, “I
prefer to die bravely collecting shells rather than dying of hunger.”
Subjects: Social Issues, Children and Youth, Asia
Falluja, a lost generation
In 2004, Fallujah in Iraq became the theater of a major showdown
between the American soldiers and the Iraqi insurgents. But even though
the sounds of this harsh battle have died down a long time ago the
consequences are only showing now. And they are of the toxic kind.
Babies are born with malformations, kids are affected with leukemia and
cancer has multiplied tenfold.
What really happened in Fallujah? Which weapons were used? Has a
generation of Iraqis been sacrificed?
Subjects: Environment, Pollution, Health, Safety and Medicine,
Diseases, Disorders and Disabilities, Social Issues, Middle East
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SOCIETY AND
LIFESTYLES
SOCIAL
ISSUES
CULTURE
The lord’s children
There are 100,000 child soldiers in Africa. According to Amnesty International, in the Central African Republic alone, they number
30,000. For the past ten years, child soldiers have become indispensable and are a trademark of rebel groups.
The film follows in the footsteps of the Lord’s Resistance Army, the LRA, a rebel group which was initially formed to resist the Uganda People’s
Defence Force but now has been accused of widespread human rights violations, including forcing children to participate in acts of violence as
soldiers of the LRA . The army which initially operated in northern Uganda and South Sudan has since spread to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Joseph Kony, the chief of the LRA, was indicted by the International Criminal Court in 2005 on 12 accounts of crime against humanity and 21 counts
of war crimes and is still at large.
From Paris to La Haye, and all the way to the Central African Republic, the film leads us along the path of the Lord’s children to hear their heartwrenching stories.
Complimentary read | War child and LRA Crisis tracker
Subjects: Social Issues, Law and Justice, Violence and Abuse, Human Rights, Africa
A country’s hunger
A COUNTRY'S HUNGER, directed by Mark Chatel, is an unusual and necessary “road movie” and documentary that focuses on the promise made to
Canada’s children.
2009 marked the 20th anniversary of an enthusiastic and unanimous resolution in the Canadian House of Commons. The House sought to achieve
the goal of eliminating poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. Mark Chatel decided to travel across the country to see what progress
had been made in those 20 years. Suspecting that there were still many children living in poverty in Canada, he naively thought that the situation
must have improved by now. But he was wrong.
below the line
Mark went from coast to coast to talk to the parents, teachers, social workers, politicians and, of course, the children who suffer the throes of
poverty on a daily basis. He wanted to see how, as citizens of a country like Canada, we could do our part to end one of the most troubling realities
of our country. Some of his observations are certainly discouraging, but others lead him to believe that the solution to end this national tragedy is
less complex than we think.
Subjects: Social Issues, Children and Youth, Canada
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Malnutrition is a chronic problem particularily in slums where worries about food and shelter is a daily concern. Sitting on one of the world's most
polluted rivers, the district of Kamrangirchar used to be a dumping ground for the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka. Today, the area is a slum that's home
to nearly 400,000 people.
SOCIETY AND
WOMEN
CULTURE
MISSING MILLIONS
Today, we see India as a rising economy and powerhouse set to compete with giants such as the USA and China. However, beneath this
potential and growth lies a pertinent problem yet to be properly addressed: the sex ratio imbalance. This is the direct consequence of bride
trafficking, female feticide and excess female mortality after birth – issues that most of us do not encounter in our daily lives, yet so crucial and
persistent in India.
Heart-wrenching and inspiring, MISSING MILLIONS seeks to educate viewers on the need to valorize and respect the status of women in India
because they are a key driving force behind India’s future growth.
Subjects: Women, Social Issues, Asia
THE BLOOD oF WOMEN
The Pokot people come from north-west Kenya and a part of Uganda. Proud and fiercely independent, the Pokot are bearers of an ancient
culture with some well-entrenched rituals. Female genital mutilation, a rite of passage into womanhood, is one of them. This film presents a
collection of testimonies of those who confront this tradition, of those who fight it and, more often, those who suffer its consequences.
Subjects: Women, Manners and Customs, Human Rights, Africa
THE GREAT INDIAN MARRIAGE BAZAAR
In an era of modernization in India, arranged marriages have become a multi-billion dollar business. Forty percent of the world’s marriages take
place in India. Of them, a staggering ninety percent are arranged. Elaborate matchmaking meetings complete with websites and screening
systems have emerged, making the choice of the ideal marriage partner a business and not an affair of the heart. It is a unique glimpse of
modern India’s concerns: class, economics and status.
Subjects: Women, Manners and Customs, Asia
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