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- Exploding with visual and aural excitement, this one hour special captures the passion, vision and inspiration of world-renowned scientist/visionary David Suzuki on the human animal and our place in the universe. Using the latest in computer generated imagery, motion graphics and innovative editing, Suzuki Speaks blends the vitality of Suzuki's face and voice with exciting pictures exploring the beauty and complexity of our world and a driving soundtrack of natural sounds and rhythmic music, including a song by Leonard Cohen
- A thriller that gets to the heart of late 90's youth culture and its relationship to the teen experience. Set at an all-night rave, this strobe-lit suspense is a searing look at the contradictions and trials of being a modern day youth.
- Going from small town prairie life to a youth spent in the cockpit changed Jim forever, and his passion for "his" Liberator has never left him. Unfortunately, his Squadron has seemed to disappear from the record, and from the minds of fellow veterans, a fact which saddens the members of the squadron, but one to which they were resigned. "Quiet Heroes" is the heart-warming story of a daughter's quest to honour the wartime flying career of her WWII veteran father and his crew and squadron mates. "Quiet Heroes" quickly became one of the most popular Remembrance Day tributes in recent years, and airs every year on November 11th all across Canada.
- A dazzling performance profile of a ballet superstar... A one hour performance/profile on ballet superstar Vladimir Malakhov, Principal Dancer in several prominent ballet companies. Named "best male dancer in the world" three years in succession by the prestigious Japanese "Dance" magazine, hailed as the "New Nureyev" by European critics, and nicknamed the "Phenom" in New York, Malakhov transfixes audiences with his combination of technical brilliance and lyrical eloquence. Jennifer Dunning, of the New York Times says that "In person, Mr. Malakhov is an eager, almost frighteningly disciplined young dancer with an endearing exuberance and sense of comedy..." This dazzling program captures the magnetic presence of this consummate dancer in the rarified atmosphere that surrounds an artist devoted to his art. "True Prince" chronicles the textures of a dancer's daily life - the rehearsals, the backstage rituals, the fans, and the strenuous performance demands of an international star. Through it all, Malakhov remains a modern man with an old fashioned virtue - complete dedication to his art. Combining rehearsals with performance, and mixing modern and classic film techniques creates a chic, hip, and engaging mix of the whimsical and the sublime. Shot in Vienna, Toronto, and Vancouver Canada, True Prince includes segments from Manon, Giselle, and a complete solo performance of the modern ballet Voyage, which was choreographed for Malakhov, based on his experience of being a rootless jet-setter. True Prince is an intimate portrait of a young man already fulfilling his destiny: Vladimir Malakhov - a quintessential ballet prince for our times...
- "Sacred Waters of Cambodia" uncovers Angkor's ancient building and water systems and explores how Canadian architects, engineers, aid workers and the Cambodian people are looking at Cambodia's ancient civilizations for practical knowledge, inspiration and hope. "Sacred Waters of Cambodia" is a film about the genius and tragedy of the Cambodian people, about their resilient spirit, and their hope for the future. It is also an explanation of the importance of culture to both the morale, and the practical functioning of any civilization. "Sacred Waters" illustrates how people from around the world are working together to reassemble the infrastructure of a country destroyed by war, and how together they are learning from the cultural, religious, and technological successes of the past.
- Created by award winning producer/director Tony Papa for CBC Television, ICE: beyond cool explores the hopeless posturing, isolation and angst of contemporary kids, grounding them in the explosive energy, fresh language and fast paced reality of high school life. Compelling, multi-layered, a vivid kaleidoscope of music, movement and hard-hitting drama, the film artistically captures an urban teen's struggle to fight the creeping unreality of her life and the increasing attraction of suicide.
- Haunted by a rapist she could never identify, Jennifer struggles to find a way to escape the memory and nightmares of the night she was raped. Hesitant and unsure of herself, Jennifer joins a self defense class where she learns more than she could ever imagine. When Jennifer is set to practice her self defense skills with a trainer she freezes and begins to let the memory of the rapist seep into her head and before she realizes it she has sunken back into the night that she was raped. With the trainer and rapist becoming one in the same Jennifer is confronted with the 'rapist' she was unable to fight off before. (scene from a feature film script of the same name)
- A Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver.
- Stunning images of children reading is set to the beautiful poem 'For Want of a Nail' by George Herbert (1593 - 1632)
- Voices of Ayacucho, Peru" is the compelling story of the Ayacuchan people's determination to survive during one of the most brutal terrorist wars of this century. Aesthetically beautiful and rich with emotion, "Voices of Ayacucho, Peru" is guaranteed to inform, entertain and unite the hearts of audiences as it provides a rare glance into the intimate life of Edwin Sulca, the people of Ayacucho, and the stories "woven" in and amongst these characters. The documentary also highlights one of Peru's most colourful festivals called Semana Santa or Holy Week, and incorporates stock footage showing the damage done in preceding years by the terrorist regime Sendero Luminoso.
- When Marilyn neglected to phone her old boyfriend Eric for five years, there was no harm intended - she was just really busy. And now he's come to visit, and he won't leave. As errands and annoying little tasks, like last year's tax return, pile up, Marilyn copes the only way she knows how - by putting things off. Things like asking him to leave. But when Eric suddenly dies at her kitchen table, what is simply a bad habit takes a darker twist. Based on a monologue by Liz Rosch.
- 3 gay men participate in the first ever human testing of an AIDS vaccine. The only catch: they'll have to engage in unprotected sex to find out of it works.
- "Traveler" is a visual, aural, and sensual feast which chronicles a woman's spiritual journey. It is an experimental short film about metaphysical journeys described as a "non-narrative, nation-hopping adventure." A woman travels through Indian cities and deserts, Southwest American ruins and dunes, and west coast beaches, seeking the world's sacred places, in a journey compelled and colored by the music of Paul Horn and Christopher Hedge.
- A journey of children's words and art, sent in response to the children of tsunami-stricken Kalmunai, Sri Lanka, this uplifting story captures with beautiful sensitivity, the innocence and creativity of children influencing their own reality of a kinder, more peaceful future.