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World Social Forum 2011 - Dakar
From 'the personal is political' to the Canadian Parliament, to Native Band Councils, our world is organized around political movements. Through our love and curiosity of the body politic, this Topic presents a large variety of media work...
From 'the personal is political' to the Canadian Parliament, to Native Band Councils, our world is organized around political movements. Through our love and curiosity of the body politic, this Topic presents a large variety of media works examining all aspects of our political lives. Have something to say, get on the media soap-box and contribute!
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Canada and the President Elects Policies

Across Canada, Barack Obama is posting approval ratings our own leaders can only dream of. In the run-up to the American Presidential Election, as many as 80 per cent of Canadians said they approved of Obama. But there are some Canadians who are withholdin...

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How to make development effective
How to make development effective
Amy Bartlett, CIVICUS Civil Society Index Officer, and Antonio Tujan, social activist and chairman of both the Asia Pac...
CIVICUS 2010-Vox Pop 1
CIVICUS 2010-Vox Pop 1
 How much money do you have in your pocket and what can you do with this amount in your country? - Question posed to CI...
Youth Participation for a Just World
Youth Participation for a Just World
Sauvé Scholar Janet Jobson, former Rhodes Scholar and Chairperson of the International Steering Group of the CIVICUS Y...
Freedom From Poverty
Freedom From Poverty
This film was created during the 2010 CIVICUS Conference held in Montreal in August....
Geoffrey Tumusiime
Geoffrey Tumusiime
In the summer of 2010, Geoffrey Tumusiime participated in the International Human Rights Training Program offered by Equ...
The New Farmer
The New Farmer
Carlyn Ross moves out of Montreal and decides to learn the ways of farming while trying to live her polical ideals....
Neglected Sky
In this fast-paced animation, youth producer John Cooney shows us that a little effort can go a long way in reversing gl...
Saving the Seed Documentary Trailer
This short film looks at a team of farmer-scientists from the hillsides of Honduras, on the frontlines of food sovereign...
Banking Diversity
Set in Ethiopia, this short film explores the critical role that seed saving and seed diversity play in ensuring a susta...
Food Inc. Trailer
Food Inc. reveals the dark side of America's corporate food industry....
Hijacked Future Documentary Trailer
For 10,000 years, farmers have planted and saved their seeds, but now the control of seeds and our foodcrops have shifte...
The Story Of Food
It's time to rethink our global food production systems.  In this short animation USC Canada critiques mass food p...
The Day of the Apology
The Day of the Apology
The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for fai...
What's in a name?
What's in a name?
Egerton Ryerson – what do Ryerson students really know about who he is and what he stood for?...
Out at the Games: Pride House and the Podium
Out at the Games: Pride House and the Podium
 Out Olympic Gold medalist Mark Tewksbury returns to the 2010 games to visit Pride House....
2010 Heart Attack - Anti-Olympic protest march, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Heart Attack - Anti-Olympic protest march, Vancouver, Canada
 Demonstrators wearing bandanas and balaclavas smashed windows and overturned newspaper boxes before clashing with riot...
The 2010 Welcoming Committee: anti-Olympic opening ceremonies
The 2010 Welcoming Committee: anti-Olympic opening ceremonies
 On February 12, 2010, the Vancouver-based Olympic Resistance Network joined a coalition of other activist groups to ho...
Sudanese Elections Preview
Sudan is holding elections. With Omar Al Bashir, an indicted war criminal assured of victory, how free, fair and represe...
2010 Olympic Torch Blockade - Victory Square, East Vancouver, Canada
2010 Olympic Torch Blockade - Victory Square, East Vancouver, Canada
At 8:50 a.m. the Olympic Resistance Network massed to 'resist the torch' as it passed through Vancouver's Downtown Easts...
o... you suck!
o... you suck!
After the lead up, count down, investment, crackdown, security, money and hype...  what will be left when the olympic r...
Stealing flame at Olympic torch relay in Vancouver
This man has been nick named Olympic Jesus,  after lighting his cigarette off the Olympic torch, and then getting tackl...
Five Ring Circus (part 2 of 8)
Exposes a side to the Vancouver Olympics which has not been revealed before. This film shows how this three week event i...
Five Ring Circus (part 1 of 8)
Exposes a side to the Vancouver Olympics which has not been revealed before. This film shows how this three week event i...
Yellow Cake
A lamentable tragedy mixed full of pleasant mirth, Yellow Cake is the latest animated epic by Ottawa animator Nick Cross...
Sudanese-Canadian, Abousfian Abdelrazik’s Story Reads Like Spy Novel
Everyone has an intriguing life story to tell. We have all experienced significant moments that alter the course of our ...
Global Campaign: Drumbeat for Peace in Sudan on 5th Annivesary of CPA
Sudan is at a crossroads. Again. January 9, 2010 marked the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace ...
Popular Protest and Sudan’s Electoral Law Reform
It’s refreshing to see a major international media network devoting and entire show about the present situation in Sud...
Video Portrait #2 from Southern Sudan: Alberto Kuol Kuol Makuach
This is Alberto Kuol Kuol Makuach’s story. During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed over a dozen Souther...
In His Own Words
In His Own Words
On June 27, 2009, Abousfian Abdelrazik returned to Canada after six years of forced exile in Sudan. This is his story....
Life in the Open Prison: Students' Q & A
Life in the Open Prison: Students' Q & A
Live question and answer discussion after the premier screening of 'Life in the Open Prison' at St. Georges High School....
Life in the Open Prison trailer
Life in the Open Prison trailer
Trailer for the short documentary 'Life in the Open Prison'...
From Southern Sudan, Video Portrait #1: Rose Achan Beryl
During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed about a dozen Southern Sudanese men and women. This is Rose Achan...
You, Me and the SPP Trailer
This is the trailer for the feature length documentary 'You, Me and the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule' now a...
Une Nouvelle Vision du Canada dans le Monde
Une Nouvelle Vision du Canada dans le Monde
Un animation qui utilise l'image d'une arbre comme symbol pour illustrer une nouvelle vision du Canada dans le monde. Ce...
A New Vision for Canada's Role in the World
A New Vision for Canada's Role in the World
An animation that uses a tree metaphor to illustrate a new vision for Canada's role in the world that resulted from the...
Questions About Canada's Role in the World
During the next Canadian federal election, Canadians have several important questions about Canada's role in the world. ...
Youth Ideas on Canada's Role in the World
Toronto youth share their ideas and visions for Canada's role in the world....
Personal Connections to Canada's Role in the World
Toronto youth share their personal reasons for why they care about Canada’s role in the world and how it affects their...
Abyei: International Court ruling redraw boundaries
Abyei remains one of the most prized and fought over pieces of land in Africa's largest country.The Permanent Court of A...
A Starving Land
This video documents the situation in the starvation zone of Southern Sudan, in Africa....
The Journey Home
W.E.E.P. (Women's Educational Empowerment Project) for Southern Sudan is a non-profit organization dedicated to the bett...
A Dog's Life Part 2
A Dog's Life Part 2
What is the value of a dog's life in Quebec? ...
Wired Safety introduces Net-Etiquettes
In this video not only does she address online etiquettes but Cyberlawyer Parry Aftab deals with cyberbullying head-on. ...
A Dog's Life Part 1
A Dog's Life Part 1
What is the value of a dog's life in Quebec? The filmmakers provide an overview of the functioning of Quebec animal serv...
what I want to see changed
what I want to see changed
Sara, a student from Kenitra, Morocco talks about what she would like to see changed in the world....
DoubleThink trailer
DoubleThink trailer
 A trailer by filmmaker Magnus Isacsson for a proposed documentary film, contrasting the writings of Orwell and Huxley ...
Varda Burstyn: Huxley today - introduction
Varda Burstyn: Huxley today - introduction
Author Varda Burstyn speaks about the impact of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in todays terms....
Varda Burstyn: Huxley today - consumerism & the environment
Varda Burstyn: Huxley today - consumerism & the environment
Author Varda Burstyn speaks about the impact of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World on the environment....
Varda Burstyn: Huxley today - consumerism & society
Varda Burstyn: Huxley today - consumerism & society
Author Varda Burstyn speaks about the impact of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World on contemporary society....
Varda Burstyn on "Double Think" - concluding remarks
Varda Burstyn on "Double Think" - concluding remarks
Author Varda Burstyn gives a brilliant and incisive talk about the Orwellian notion of "Double Think," and applies it to...
Varda Burstyn on "Double Think"
Varda Burstyn on "Double Think"
Author Varda Burstyn gives a brilliant and incisive talk about the Orwellian notion of "Double Think," and applies it to...
Here we do Business in French
Here we do Business in French
Tv documentary on the governmental initiative "Ici on commerce en Français". How such a timid project generates many re...
Brave New 1984 - welcome video
Brave New 1984 - welcome video
Brave New 1984 invites dialogue regarding contemporary issues such as militarism, globalization, consumption, social ine...
South Fraser Perimeter Road: Part 1
Part one of this series introduces us to Delta BC resident Brad Major and his fight against the expropriation of his lan...
Iraqi Refugees: The View from Syria
Iraqi Refugees: The View from Syria
Did you know? 1 in 5 Iraqis have been uprooted by violence in their homeland. Many have fled to Syria where the situati...
Iraqi Refugees: Khaled's Story
Iraqi Refugees: Khaled's Story
Did you know? 1 in 5 Iraqis have been uprooted by violence in their homeland. Many have fled to Syria where the situati...
Free the Shministim
A video produced to raise awareness about Shministim, or conscientious objector, who say why they refuse to serve in an ...
You Can Vote However You Like
Incredibly bright 6th and 7th graders from Ron Clark Academy serve up a political chant that will make politics seem...e...
Toxic Service The Gagetown Atrocity ( Chapter 1 )
Toxic Service The Gagetown Atrocity ( Chapter 1 )
Toxic Service The Gagetown Atrocity revials the truth about Canada's Government spraying of deadly toxic chemicals on CF...
Toxic Service The Gagetown Atrocity
Toxic Service The Gagetown Atrocity
Toxic Service The Gagetown Atrocity is a series of short videos designed to educate Canadians about our Governments pois...
RiP: A Remix manifesto
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age,...
Bibliothèque DIRA library
Bibliothèque DIRA library
Montreal's own Anarchist Library, DIRA, on StLaurent gives us a rundown of their activities and anarchist thought. Visit...
Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Bangladesh
Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Bangladesh
Is foreign aid necessary? This video takes an informal look at the current picture of foreign aid in Bangladesh, its pro...
Vera Vertes talks about her arrival to Auschwitz
Vera Vertes talks about her arrival to Auschwitz
Vera Vertes, born in 1928, in Hungary, was the eldest of three sisters, raised in a well-to-do family. With the German i...
Raphael and Sasha
Raphael and Sasha
Raphael et Sasha promises to be both the most intriguing and telling remake of Romeo and Julliette you've ever seen. Ins...
645 Wellington
645 Wellington
645 Wellington looks at a Montreal, Quebec loft and its residents who are fighting to keep their home against high-tech ...
Le Quartier - Notre Environnement Quotidien (English version)
A documentary about the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre's sustainability plan for the neighbourhood of Milton-Parc....
The Canadian Water Crisis
The Canadian Water Crisis
Excerpts of CitizenShift's cross-Canada tour on Water. Local water activists from 5 Canadian cities speak to subject of ...
Roadsworth trailer
Roadsworth trailer
The official trailer for Roadsworth: Crossing the Line! Feature documentary directed by Alan Kohl.A Loaded Pictures pro...
Work for All: Panel Discussion -Toronto, 2008
Work for All: Panel Discussion -Toronto, 2008
In this engaging piece, put together with footage taken from the 'Stop Racism in the Workplace' screening, panelists sha...
A Place Called Chiapas (clip 1)
A Place Called Chiapas (clip 1)
Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos is surrounded by 30,000 Mexican troops but still finds the time for interviews wit...
War Resisters Support Campaign Canada
Since the start of the War in Iraq, many US soldiers have sought refuge in Canada. ...
Interview with Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute Director
Interview with Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute Director
Gordon Laxer is the Director of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate Alberta research network that studies public policy ...
Effects of the Tar Sands: Fort Mackay, Alberta
Clips from an interview with Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort Mackay, about 40km downstream from Sun...
A Place Called Chiapas (clip 2)
A Place Called Chiapas (clip 2)
A Zapatista leader discusses his philosophy on life and death....
How to Run a School: 2010 Winter Games Style
How to Run a School: 2010 Winter Games Style
At Olympic Elementary, the walls are crumbling, classrooms are over-crowded and the food stinks. So when it comes to bud...
Wafaa Bilal discusses Shoot an Iraqi
Imagine spending 30 days confined in a room, always being on the alert of getting shot.  ...
Conversation With Iraqi Policeman: Alive In Baghdad
Just who are the Iraqi Police? How do they think? What are there positions on the war and the occupation? Alive in Baghd...
Blockade (clip 1)
Blockade (clip 1)
A family from Ontario talks with a Native-American clan to resolve territorial differences....
Blockade (clip 2)
Blockade (clip 2)
Members of a small logging community become angry when the Eagle Clan set up a road block....
In the barber-shop
In the barber-shop
In a naval barber-shop in San Diego, filmmaker Annie Richer finds a range of American opinions....
Black Community Must Remain Critical of Obama
University Professor El Jones speaks on Obama and difficulties he faces -  in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the montly SPEAK!...
A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: Inside the Philippine Revolution (clip 1)
A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: Inside the Philippine Revolution (clip 1)
A right-wing radio host discusses his tactics to win the war on communism....
A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: Inside the Philippine Revolution (clip 2)
A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: Inside the Philippine Revolution (clip 2)
A filmmaker gets get up in an ambush between government forces and communist rebel forces....
Highway of Tears (Clip 1)
Highway of Tears (Clip 1)
The opening of Highway of Tears, a film about the women who have gone missing along a lonely B.C. highway....
To The Tar Sands Trailer
To The Tar Sands Trailer
To The Tar Sands follows a group of young environmentalists across Alberta learning firsthand about the Alberta oil sand...
Resist 2010: Eight Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Winter Olympics
Resist 2010: 8 Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Winter Olympics, is a short, fast-paced documentary focusing on the negative i...
Narrating Haiti
Narrating Haiti
Narrating Haiti is a look at the work of a Canadian doctor working to set up a medical clinic in a Haitian fishing villa...
La Toile
La Toile
Identity protection, open-software and defending democracy in the name of liberty are the topics at hand in this clip fr...
Malalai Joya: Corruption in Afghanistan
Malalai Joya: Corruption in Afghanistan
The people of Afghanistan are not being taken care of by those in power....
The Tree that Remembers
The Tree that Remembers
A film about the betrayal of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the tenacity of the human spirit....
Threadbare
Threadbare
Threadbare recounts the stunning events when 25 ordinary men were were arrested in Toronto on suspicion of terrorism....
Security Consciousness: Detained In Guelph
Security Consciousness: Detained In Guelph
University of Guelph students-turned-filmmakers grapple with the use of the Guelph Correctional Facility for detaining i...
Raoul Léger, The Elusive Truth
Raoul Léger, The Elusive Truth
San Juan Ostuncaico parish was the home of many Canadian missionaries who fought with the Mayan people....
Raoul Léger, The Elusive Truth
Raoul Léger, The Elusive Truth
Andréa and Cléola Léger ask those close to their brother about his life....
Raoul Léger, The Elusive Truth
Raoul Léger, The Elusive Truth
Summer 2001, Andréa and Cléola Léger travel to Guatemala seeking traces of their brother Raoul, a Canadian lay missio...
FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (clip 2)
FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (clip 2)
A heroin addict leads a group of protesters into the Vancouver legislator to demand a safe injection site....
Nettie Wild - Changing Minds
Nettie Wild - Changing Minds
Documentary film can make people change their mind about a cause or situation....
Nettie Wild - Local Film Crew
Nettie Wild - Local Film Crew
When filming a war, the local film crew could be in danger....
Nettie Wild - In it together
Nettie Wild - In it together
"My Crew suffers with me!"...
Nettie Wild - Dogma is Death
Nettie Wild - Dogma is Death
Why getting carried away with the rhetoric is static....
Nettie Wild - Find a Mentor
Nettie Wild - Find a Mentor
Go make movies with a filmmaker that you love....
Texas, Beer and Politics
Texas, Beer and Politics
A group of Texans talk about American politics while drinking beer in a bar in Austin, Texas....
Nettie Wild - Introduction as a filmmaker
Nettie Wild - Introduction as a filmmaker
Nettie Wild introduces herself and how she approaches making a documentary film....
Nettie Wild on activist filmmaking
Nettie Wild on activist filmmaking
Nettie Wild says she's not an activist filmmaker and explains why....
Nettie Wild - Activist Distribution
Nettie Wild - Activist Distribution
Wild speaks about screening her films in the community, and speaking at mainstream theatres....
Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg Orwell's Century. part 1 of 3
Think Tank explores how Orwell's writing shaped the twentieth century's war of ideas....
Graverobbing! Orwell: how his ideas have been used politically
How both the Left and the Right have used and distorted Orwell's catch-phrases and doublethink. Explained by leading Orw...
TVMcGill Election Coverage from New Hampshire
Canadians seemed to be more enthusiastic about the US presidential election than their own, so 5 McGill students headed ...
Liberty, USA (trailer)
In the United States, more than 200 towns and counties are called Liberty. In this historic election year, a new documen...
Chuck D from Public Enemy speaks to CUTV news
Chuck D from Public Enemy speaks to CUTV news
 An interview with Chuck D. of Public Enemy. He talks about education reform, individualism and consumerism, etc. Chuck...
World Social Forum 2011 - Dakar
Killer's Paradise
The team - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 13
Lake Malawi - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 12
A picture of a picture - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 11
The village in the eye of the storm - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 9
The Chief - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 10
Hard times in Kayelekera - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 8
No-show mine - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 7
Unionising from the ground up - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 6
A widow’s story - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 5
Dreams up in flames - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 4
Mapping out Malawi’s Resources - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 3
What else is there? - Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine Photo 2
CIVICUS Youth Assembly March
CIVICUS Youth Assembly March
CIVICUS Youth Assembly March
CIVICUS Youth Assembly March
CIVICUS Youth Assembly March
CIVICUS Youth Assembly March
Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan Indian Industrial School
Gambling Boys
2010 Olympic Torch Blockade - Victory Square, East Vancouver, Canada - Video Thumbnail
Choose your weapon
How to Run a School: 2010 Winter Games Style - Video Thumbnail
Pictures of Departure - Video Thumbnail
Winnipeg Regional Dialogue Session
Vancouver Regional Dialogue Session
Toronto Regional Dialogue
Ottawa Regional Dialogue Session
Montreal Regional Dialogue Session
Moncton Regional Dialogue Session
A Metaphor for Canadian Global Leadership - After The Vision
A Metaphor for Canadian Global Leadership - Before The Vision
Word Cloud
Halifax Regional Dialogue Session
Calgary Regional Dialogue
Steady as she goes
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IDPs Return to southern Sudan 2
IDPs Return to southern Sudan 2
IDP's return to Southern Sudan 1
a festival within a festival
Neighbourhoods
Remnants of war in Southern Sudan 2
Remnants of war in Southern Sudan (1/2)
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!
Our Choice is to Obey
BNW: Genetically modified food
Bunny clone - Brave New World
Surveillance camera at the depanneur
Yet another sureveillance camera...
"Operation Enduring Freedom": doublethink for "War Is Peace" ?
Brave New 1984- bioterror in America's Capitol Hill
NFB DoubleThink/ Brave New 1984 loft party flyer
Medieval surveillance cartoon
George Orwell writing, 1945
Original manuscript of '1984' - opening paragraph
1984 - paperback
"Man the Machine" - humans serving the state in Orwell's 1984
Peak Oil
Orwell: If he were alive today - An exchange with John Rodden
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Nettie Wild
Southern Sudan
Syncrude Oil Sands Upgrader Plant
"After the Storm" - oil on canvas
Protest for Shoe Throwing Journalist
"Tiananmen Square"
"Diversity is Innocence"
KK Rhymes
Harp Remains
Gilgamesh and Enkido
"Picnic" - oil on canvas
FIX - film still 1
Man's Destiny
Photography of N. Ramzi
A Place Called Chiapas - film still 2
Blockade - film still 2
Blockade - film still 1
Common Man
Rustling of Leaves - film still 2
Rustling of Leaves - film still 1
Rustling of Leaves - film still 3
Mandla Oliphant
Cape Town
Pledge
Development Debris
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