The Work

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  Mounties Under Fire, is a gripping journey into the heart of the RCMP during a period of profound crisis. Notorious for closing ranks, the Mounties open up to documentary cameras, revealing a painfully flawed organization fighting for its life.

  It’s been a most difficult decade for Canada’s national police force. Faith in the RCMP has been shaken – by Maher Arar’s betrayal, the pension scandal, harassment cases, and too many deaths on duty. And especially by the captured-on-video taser death of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport, and the Braidwood Inquiry into that death. A 2009 Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll found over 60 per cent of Canadians don’t buy the RCMP version of the events at Vancouver airport that lead to Mr. Dziekanski’s death. That number jumps to 71 per cent in BC, where it happened.

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  Grass roots Canadians are at the heart of a quiet revolution – couples working on “good” divorces, which acknowledge that the end of a marriage isn’t the end of a family. How to Divorce & Not Wreck the Kids takes viewers directly into the heart of one of life’s most emotionally devastating transitions. Three courageous Canadian couples end their marriages on camera – struggling to keep the needs of their children front and centre.

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  Many of us fantasize about returning to junior high to confront the kids who made life a living hell, but Erin Thomson actually did it. Her quest to discover why she was the target of bullies is captured in this unsettling one-hour documentary. The Bully’s Mark promises a disturbing look at a problem that all the anti-bullying programs on the planet have been unable to solve. Why are some kids bullies? Why are some kids targets? And why are so many of us silent bystanders? If you’re in junior high today or if you escaped 20 years ago, you’ll want to watch…as the bully’s mark – all grown up – goes back home to ask every target’s question – why me?

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  Polygamy’s Lost Boys follows three young men as they struggle to survive in a world they were raised to believe is wicked. The boys are members of the Fundamentalist Mormon Church, which holds as its core belief: the more wives a man has on earth, the higher the celestial ladder he climbs in heaven. Most often the young, often teenage, girls are assigned in marriage to church leaders. So do the math: if one man has 8 wives, stands to reason, young men have none. They are effectively cast out of the only world they’ve ever known, like Peter Pan’s lost boys. They’re marooned without family, without social skills, with little education and no role models. Polygamy’s Lost Boys captures the boys’ struggles to find their way in a modern world and to re-align their hearts and minds to another belief system: “We aren’t really going to hell, are we?”

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  Leaving Bountiful is the story of systemic sexual abuse tolerated in the name of religious freedom: tolerated, and unwittingly subsidized, by the Canadian tax-payer. It is the story of a woman, raised from a tiny child inside this perverted value system, who still somehow finds the courage - and the clarity - to break free. Leaving Bountiful follows Debbie Palmer’s life growing up in the fundamentalist Mormon polygamous colony of Bountiful British Columbia, her growing disenchantment with a life of blind obedience and endless breeding, climaxing in a final act of desperation. Debbie sets her house on fire and flees with her seven children in tow. From the ashes, she must build a whole new world.

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  Alexandra Morton

  Alexandra’s Echo is the story of a powerhouse of a woman, and of the delicate world she’s fighting to save. Alexandra Morton lives in paradise – remote Echo Bay in the Broughton Archipelago off the wild west coast of British Columbia, Canada. Alexandra fears that it will be paradise lost, if she cannot stem the relentless tide of industrial fish farms into the Broughton: “What’s the real price of cheap farmed fish? Nothing less than the destruction of the last temperate rain forest in the world.” The documentary follows Morton, one of the world’s foremost experts on killer whales, as she gathers evidence in her desperate crusade to save the wild Pacific salmon. This film is also a love story: Alexandra is drawn to the Broughton by her love of an animal, stays because of her love of man. When he dies tragically, Alexandra remains because she has fallen in love again, with this place.

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  David McTaggart

  Shadow Warrior. Even his friends describe him as cold, calculating, Machiavellian, unremorseful, unremitting…and absolutely charismatic. David McTaggart, the founder of Greenpeace International, was behind some of the greatest environmental victories of our time - including the banning of atmospheric nuclear testing, and the moratorium on commercial whaling. Among his friends, several powerful politicians, a couple of multi-billionaires and at least one rock star - yet you very likely don’t know his face. McTaggart preferred to work from the shadows, manipulating people and events without having to step out into the light. Shadow Warrior is an intimate biography of this powerful and elusive environmental champion, made possible by his friendship with filmmaker Helen Slinger.