To The Worlds

Directed by Wendy Ord

Lost on Arrival

Me the Mounties & PTSD
Written and directed by Helen Slinger

A veteran CBC reporter collapses under the weight of covering successive disasters. This documentary captures Curt Petrovich’s courageous efforts to rebuild himself from the inside out. From running marathons to experimental psychedelic drug treatments, Curt tries anything to get back to the present, back to himself.

Hold Your Fire

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Helen Slinger

It seems like every few weeks there’s a news story from somewhere in North America – a mentally ill person in crisis, shot dead by police. This documentary deconstructs why it’s happening – how officers trained to ‘serve and protect’ somehow end up shooting vulnerable people. Can police be trained to hold their fire?

Wasted

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Maureen Palmer

The Truth About Female Desire

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Maureen Palmer

A generation ago, a woman who liked sex went to great lengths to hide it. Not anymore. The Truth About Female Desire smashes centuries-old constructs designed to control female sexuality and celebrates women brave enough to appear as sexual beings on national TV, slut-shamers be damned.

Angry Kids & Stressed Out Parents

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Maureen Palmer

For the first time in North American history, more children suffer from mental health conditions than from physical ones. Parents are coping with staggering levels of anger, aggression, and other behaviour problems. Experts in child development believe the problem is going to get worse, not better, because too many parents are too busy, too stressed, or too poor to invest in the most important time in a child’s life: the first six years.  Angry Kids & Stressed Out Parents follows parents and children through proven early childhood interventions to show young lives transformed, social problems solved and billions of taxpayers dollars saved.

The Condo Game

for CBC Television
Directed by Lionel Goddard and Helen Slinger

Dog Dazed

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Helen Slinger

Leaving Bountiful

for Global Television
Written and directed by Helen Slinger

It’s been an eventful decade since our first foray into Bountiful, home to the fundamentalist polygamous Mormon church in British Columbia. It’s a decade that saw the rise and fall of Warren Jeffs, the church’s all-powerful North American leader; a decade that saw BC church leader Winston Blackmore face polygamy charges. Our film was a catalyst for change, enabling authorities to see inside a closed society.

Cat Crazed

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Maureen Palmer

Cat Crazed is a fun and irreverent take on an important environmental story: the world’s unprecedented cat overpopulation crisis. The cat is the world’s most popular pet – and the most disposable. Some 100 million cats, domestic and wild, roam the North American landscape, wreaking havoc on native flora and fauna – and forcing well-meaning humans to take sides in a cat-bird war. It’s become clear that we don’t have a cat problem; we have a human problem. The species at the top of the food chain needs to get a grip on practical humane solutions that can save the lives of cats and birds.

When the Devil Knocks

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Helen Slinger

Mounties Under Fire

for CBC Television
Written and directed by Helen Slinger

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.