Genres: documentary

  • Mother’s Bond

    When Aisha’s husband is convicted of being a “leading” member of a vicious street gang, she and her six children must confront a world of judgment in order to survive

  • Island Cowboy

    Island Cowboy is a documentary that follows a Canadian beekeeper on Prince Edward Island during one of his last years of work. At the age of 68, Stan Sandler would like to retire, but impending threats to his island home’s ecosystem threaten the future of the bees, and the health of the environment. The relationship between a beekeeper’s labour and the economy of the island’s blueberry crop is explored through a season of beekeeping, as we get an intimate look at Stan and the “bee cowboys”.

  • Queering Yoga

    Queering Yoga tells the story of 6 Queer/Trans/QTPOC yoga teachers and their personal stories of healing, transformation, and yoga journey. Themes explored include: What is the intersection of Queer, Trans, and QTPOC identities and yoga? What does empowered and embodied visibility look like for the Queer, Trans, and QTPOC communities? What does it mean to decolonize one’s yoga practice and why is this important? Queering Yoga embraces an intersectional lens to explore identity, personal, and community transformation. The film positions Queer/Trans/QTPOC yoga teachers as important voices and leaders in current day yoga conversations and spaces committed to ending racism, homophobia,…

  • Beyond Curls & Kinks

    Beyond Curls & Kinks follows a group of women who are challenging beauty standards and empowering each other and the next generation to embrace their coily kinky curly hair. The film explores the complex relationship they have with their Afro-textured hair and issues such as self-esteem, confidence and identity. It also challenges society to see women and girls beyond their curls & kinks.

  • Red Tunnel (紅色隧道)

    To celebrate Grandma Wu’s birthday, the villagers assembled plastic tarps around the village—a canopy that resembled a red tunnel. Weaving inside and outside of the canopy, a secret mechanism of domination may be glimpsed. Entrapped under a makeshift space, the villagers waver between laughter and labour as poetics intermittently exceed the banality of life.

  • The Space Shuttle Challenger

    Through found footage, The Space Shuttle Challenger entwines the Challenger disaster, Guantanamo Bay, Chile’s coup d’état and the experience of being 16. It reflects on the personal impact of large events in world history and small moments of hope that survive.

  • What Comes Between

    What Comes Between is an examination of personal memory and loss rooted in the filmmaker’s birth place – Chile – and her departure from that country long ago. The work is a collage film created with found footage from personal and historic sources, and original hand printed and tinted footage.

  • Recollection – Premonition

    Am I him or am I not? Did I know her or did she know me? I’m not certain who they are yet I feel I have always known them and I can’t help but wonder what became of them. A figure appears then dissolves as the film becomes a memory map. Another figure then appears and merges into the topography of the aged film before once again the first figure briefly reappears. In March 2020 the Province of British Columbia declared a State of COVID-19 Emergency. Since that time I’ve been projecting and recording some of my family’s regular/super…

  • Transit – Destination

    Cities are where people tend to nest. This is where we can engage in the greatest range of pursuits while being provided a reasonable likelihood of day to day sustenance. While not apparent for the most part, cities require far flung resources making them islands or something akin to a space station. Cities are also de facto barriers for many other animal species, especially those that require migration routes to survive. Note: The voices are Kent Tate and a friendly passerby engaging in a conversation about birds while he was filming some office towers.

  • Focal point

    We live in a holographic world. It is a busy, busy place with much to do, with not enough time to do it. We also live in a world where a host of entities are vying for our attention. With so much competition to retain our gaze a clutter threshold is a very real hazard. I have always been sensitive to movement. There is either too much movement or too little movement, so I try to seek a balance, or at least make efforts to set aside moments where I can calm my overstimulated nervous system. I am partial to…