Call Number: DVD E 99 C88T4 2009 (OA), DVD 971.3112 T4 2009 (HP)
3 suicides leave 8 siblings orphaned in a community struggling with 3rd world conditions.
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (the people of the lake) is a remote Native community bound by reserve laws in the forgotten North of Ontario. This Nation dates back to 7,000 years where bones of their ancestors were discovered on the shores of Big Trout Lake. Today this proud Nation is deeply impoverished in 3rd World conditions bound by Treaty laws signed, by their non-English speaking ancestors. Set in the backdrop of the aftermath of the suicide of three parents, the documentary explores the impact of 3rd world conditions on the children left behind and a community's courage in looking after them. In her third documentary film, Gemini-nominee, Andrée Cazabon brings to light the impact of reserve conditions through the poignant testimonies of children and youth. Filmed with the participation of Tikinagan Child & Family Services, the Nation of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and the Mamow-Sha-way-gi-kay-win: North South Partnership for Children.
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, also known as Big Trout Lake First Nation or KI for short, is a First Nations community in Northwestern Ontario. Part of Treaty 9 (James Bay). The community is about 580 km (360 mi) north of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The First Nation's land-base is a 29,937.6 ha (73,976.38 acre) Kitchenuhmaykoosib Aaki 84 Reserve, located on the north shore of Big Trout Lake (Ontario). Big Trout Lake is a fly-in community, accessible by air, and winter road in the colder months ... Language is Oji-Cree.
The seventh installment in Michael Apted's Up Series. In 1964, 14 children from diverse backgrounds were interviewed about their lives and dreams. Every seven years, Apted has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives.
Presents three critical skills of the microtraining program with introductory lectures followed by inappropriate and appropriate counseling demonstrations which enable trainees to see subtle dimensions of skill usage. Vignettes and computer graphics encourage student practice of the skills.
Chronicles the story of a family in western Massachusetts whose home was seized by federal marshalls and IRS agents after they publicly refused to pay federal taxes as a protest against war and military spending.
Asian girls are enslaved in suburban massage parlours. Domestic workers toil like slaves in suburban homes. Vancouver gangs recruit Honduran boys to sell drugs. Girls in a Montreal subway station are lured into prostitution. Human trafficking is still a reality today, and it's happening closer to home than you might think. Featuring candid interviews with victims and witnesses, Avenue Zero weaves a spellbinding portrait of a dark and sinister trade flourishing in the shadows of the law.
While living in the red light district of Calcutta, documenting life in the brothels, New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives.
Timely and wise, this important documentary about the state of prostitution laws in Canada is a revelation. Those laws, forged in the 19th century, are now being challenged by both pro-prostitution and anti-prostitution forces, with no evident consensus about which way forward is either best or likely. The film's examination of the sex industry in Sweden and New Zealand sheds further light on the situation at home. Buying Sex carefully guides the viewer through a wide spectrum of disagreement, exploring the many points of view in this age-old yet contemporary debate. Articulate and impassioned formerly prostituted women and sex workers make their claims for and against the proposed changes, while policy-makers, lawyers and even male consumers also offer insight and commentary on this vexing issue. Respecting the differences of ideology and opinion as Canada works its way toward an uneasy consensus, the film challenges us to think for ourselves and offers a gripping and invaluable account of just what is at stake for all of us
A cluster of neighborhoods lies in the heart of Southern California, streets that form a grid between concrete ribbons of freeway. Nearly a quarter of its young men will end up in prison. Many other will end up dead. These neighborhoods in South Los Angeles are home to two of the most infamous African-American gangs, the Crips and the Bloods. On these mean streets over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in an ongoing cycle of gang violence that continues unabated. Here is where America's most bloody and costly outbreaks in civil unrest erupted - not once, but twice, 27 years and just three miles apart. Combines archival footage with in-depth interviews.
Legendary organizer Saul Alinsky led the movement to empower disenfranchised communities through collective action. The democraric promise examines Alinsky's life and legacy through work being done by two contemporary people's organizations.
In the sudden aftermath of his wife's departure, Steven finds himself as the sole parent and provider of his two children. Exhausting every other option, Steven moves his small family to a homeless shelter in Peterborough, Ontario in the hopes of finding a home in time for Christmas. Over the course of a year, the film explores a family at risk and a father's determination to hang on to his kids.
Percy Paul began his journey in a remote Dene community in northern Saskatchewan, a place where far too often alcohol and violence were close at hand. Despite these circumstances, he excelled in school and sports, eventually proving himself a world class distance runner and gold medallist. Within a few short years, Percy found himself at Princeton, working alongside one of the world's leading authorities on string theory, black holes and quantum field theory. But all this changed when he turned 28. Percy became an alcoholic in an effort to cope with his extreme mood swings. After a failed suicide attempt, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Those afflicted with this life-long disorder suffer flights of mania followed by periods of clinical depression, where many try suicide and, tragically, all too many succeed. Flight from Darkness focuses on the life of Percy Paul, from his dazzling rise and fall as a brilliant mathematician to his continuing struggle to prevail over his illness and realize his full potential.
Portrait of palliative caregiver Stephen Jenkinson and his work. Whether sitting at the bedside of a dying woman or speaking to clinicians whose job it is to delay death as long as possible Jenkinson bears a message most people do not want to hear: that our deaths are not something to be denied or avoided but befriended.
This is the DVD which accompanies the book of the same name, which the downtown Lakehead Orillia library also owns.
students will see Marianne and Jerry Corey in action as they demonstrate their integrative approach to group work. As the two-hour video unfolds, viewers will see a real group--not actors role-playing--move through its various stages and will observe group members discuss real issues and present reactions in the group context.
Shows how to help clients identify their desires and focus on problem-causing behaviors. It teaches how to build and strengthen positive counseling relationships and details strategies for assisting clients who refuse to talk about their behaviors or who want to dwell on the past.
This program is part of the Canada's Social Safety Net series. The series examines the history and possible future of the key components of Canada's social policy and programs. Canadians see their country as a civilized and caring pioneer in compassionate government programs such as health care, pensions, and unemployment insurance. In fact, Canada lagged far behind most of the industrialized world in creating such programs. Terence McKenna takes a comprehensive look back at the development of Canada's social safety net. Archival news footage and contemporary interviews detail the arguments of those who supported benevolent social programming and those who disliked and mistrusted the socialist aspects of such a system.
Shot over a six month period in Toronto, Canada, the film documents the moral, emotional and legal collision between illegal immigrants and immigration officers. Some illegal immigrants are criminals, some have tried (unsuccessfully) to claim refugee status and some are just trying to find a better life in Canada.
On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Behind Mohawk lines that gruelling summer, producer and director Alanis Obomsawin, herself an Abenaki Indian, enrured 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming an armed standoff between the Kanehsatake Mohawk people of First Nations, the Quebec police and the Canadian army.
Street kids are now a feature of the urban landscape, an underclass that fascinates and repels. This program, made by a woman who spent her early teen years as a street kid, offers her own story as a runaway. But, as the title indicates, the emotional turmoil felt by her parents as they watch their young daughter slip further and further away into the nether world of the street plays a significant part as well. Based on the letters her father wrote to her while she was on the streets at age 13-14, the filmmaker honors the nightmare that her family also survived. She employs the letters as a structure to contrast the parents' fear and pain against the violent reality created by their daughter's drug addiction. Moving between the underworld of the streets and the father's insomnia, we witness the scars of addiction, the isolation of the family, the idyllic memories of a happy childhood and the parents' attempt to save their daughter.
For Shadows: A contemplative, multi-layered memoir that unravels the tangled roots of self-harm and explores the process of coming to terms with one's shadows. The home movies of a child's formative years and an interior landscape of traumatic domestic memories are excavated and re-constructed alongside sound clips from archival mental hygiene films.
In Light, In!: A haunting visual essay about the awkward and angry junctures where our culture struggles to manage its emotional distress. Images recycled from 1950's era educational films are accompanied by original compositions by cellist Zoe Keating.
Crooked Beauty: A poetic, social justice documentary that explores positive and compassionate models for transforming the experience of madness in our culture. Artist Jacks Ashley McNamara recounts her journey from the psych ward to innovative mental health activism.
How Ricardo Semler, author of Maverick, has empowered his employees by giving them financial information and changing management roles. Also deals with employee ownership.
A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
The video, workbook and seminars are one of the initiatives of Aboriginal Focus Programs staff to help our instructors understand Indigenous Knowledge, integrate IK into curriculum and teaching methodologies, and develop sensitivity to the issues that arise within the classroom.
'I know we're poor, but it's what we are not who we are.' KAY RICE. Shot in an intimate, cinema verite style, No Place Called Home follows the Rice Family over the course of a year as they move in search for affordable housing. My biggest dream is that all my kids make it in life, says Kay Rice, who has just moved with husband, Karl, and her six children to a small, run-down rental house. Just as the family's circumstances are looking slightly better, things turn sour with the landlord who threatens eviction. Kay, worried that a veiled threat in a letter may mean losing her children, decides to take her landlord to court. With a photojournalist's eye, director Craig Chivers infuses No Place Called Home with humanity and stark realism as he illustrates the desperate struggle faced by the Rices and a growing number of working poor families across Canada.
Cardinal killed himself at the age of 17 after spending 13 years being shifted through a series of 28 different foster homes and shelters, often separated from his brothers and sisters. His death and the diary he left behind captured media attention and prompted reform of Alberta's child welfare system.
Sound and Fury takes viewers inside the seldom seen world of the deaf to witness a painful family struggle over a controversial medical technology called the cochlear implant. Some family members celebrate the implant as a long overdue cure for deafness while others fear it will destroy their language and way of life. Sound and Fury explores this seemingly irreconcilable conflict as it illuminates the ongoing struggle for identity among deaf people today. The Artinian family is at the epicenter of this conflict and their incredible story illustrates the tension and raw emotion on both sides of this highly charged fence. Two brothers, one deaf and one hearing, anguish over the difficult choices they face about how to raise their deaf children. They reach very different conclusions about the cochlear implant, and their decisions spark passionate responses from their hearing and deaf relatives. Out of the Artinian's extraordinary candor emerges a rare and intimate portrait of the deaf that forces viewers to re-examine their definitions of personal identity, disability, culture and community. In addition to raising questions about deaf culture that few people in the hearing world ever consider, Sound and Fury offers the embattled deaf community an opportunity to gain greater understanding, tolerance, and acceptance of personal choice.
Why are the rich becoming richer and the poor poorer? To better understand the "how's" and "why's" of the economic mechanisms which have brought us to this explosive situation, the director travelled the globe. Turbulences highlights the unprecedented power of the financial markets, and the threat they pose to democracy.
The stigma of mental illness reduces access to resources and deprives people of their dignity and rights. Unlearn challenges the negative misconceptions often associated with mental illness by documenting the courage of three Canadians. Darlene Byrom explains the difficulties her son faces growing up with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Bob Rae, former Ontario premier, discusses is early bout with depression and promotes his ongoing desire for public support. Michelle Prosserman explores how the stigma associated with schizophrenia affected her recovery. Dr. David Goldbloom, Senior Medical Advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, ties the stories together with the central message that anyone can suffer mental illness and that we must work together to break the stigma.
Follows four youths for 10 months as they prepare to leave foster care. All between 16 and 20 years old, they give a candid look at their lives and an inept , overburdened foster-care system.