Films shown by the Dawson Creek Justice Film Festival
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Films shown at the 2013 Festival | |
Bonsai People - 2010 |
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Director: Holly MosherAs the founder of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people – mainly women – with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families. His Grameen Bank currently lends to one out of every 1,000 people on earth and with a 98% rate of repayment – unheard of in the financial world. Bonsai People also shows how Yunus – in partnership with some of the world’s most visionary businesses – is launching purposely designed social ventures – a completely new way to use the creative vibrancy of business to tackle social problems from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education. 79 min.
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Grace, Milly, Lucy....Child Soldiers - 2010 |
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Director: Raymonde ProvencherGrace, Milly, Lucy....Child Soldiers exposes the tragedy of girl soldiers in Uganda. How can they learn to live normal lives again after being abducted and trained to become killing machines? Interspersing personal accounts with scenes from daily life, the film follows three women on their long road to reconciliation.52 min.
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Payback - 2012 |
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Director: Jennifer BaichwalPayback offers a fascinating look at debt: how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and even the fate of the planet. The film explores the link between debtor and creditor in a variety of contexts and situations—a years-long blood feud between two Albanian families; the BP oil spill; tomato farm workers in Florida and their bosses; media mogul Conrad Black and the US justice system—while addressing debt in all its forms: societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal and, of course, economic. Featuring stunning cinematography and insightful commentary by RAJ PATEL, LOUISE ARBOUR, KAREN ARMSTRONG, CONRAD BLACK, and ATWOOD herself. Payback is a brilliant, game-changing rumination on the subject. 86 min.
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Prosecutor - 2010 |
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Director: Barry StevensThe Prosecutor follows the former Chief Prosecutor through the first trials of the newly formed International Criminal Court. Luis Moreno-Ocampo investigates and prosecutes some of the world's worst criminals for some of the world's worst crimes. He's a hero to genocide survivors, but has bitter enemies on both the Right and the Left. Is the ICC a groundbreaking new weapon for global justice or just an idealistic dream? 52 min.
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Sarabah - 2011 |
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Director: Maria Luisa Gambale
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SPOIL – The Fight to Save the Great Bear Rainforest - 2011 |
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Director: Trip JenningsThe International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) has teamed up with Pacific WILD, the Gitga’at First Nation of British Columbia, LightHawk, TidesCanada, Save our Seas Foundation, Sierra Club BC, and the Dogwood initiative to carry out a Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE) in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia. We are focusing our energy and cameras on this pristine region in response to plans by Enbridge Inc. to build a pipeline for heavy crude oil from the Alberta tar sands across British Columbia to the coast of the Great Bear Rainforest. The tar sands in northern Alberta are arguably one of the world’s most environmentally-devastating extractive industries and the proposed pipeline would put one of our planet’s most ecologically-sensitive and intact marine ecosystems at risk for a catastrophic oil spill through increased mega tanker traffic. www.balancemedia.tv/projects/spoil 44 min.
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The Harvest - 2010 |
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Director: U. Roberto RomanoEvery year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA profiles these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas’ onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida's tomato fields to follow the harvest. 80 min.
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War in the Mind - 2011 |
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Director: Judy JacksonIt's called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the unending echo of battle etched in the brain may affect up to 15% of soldiers by some estimates. It can destroy families, and can leave its sufferers unable to work, addiction addled and changed. All the soldiers who bravely speak out in this film are doing so because they want us to understand what they endure. They also want to reach out to others who are suffering in silence, and may feel the only way of ending their pain is ending their lives. Senator and L. General (Retired) Roméo Dallaire plays a major role in this film. For many years he has heroically spoken out in public to declare that he suffered intensely from PTSD and had attempted suicide. And today he continues to campaign on behalf of all soldiers who suffer. This film also discovers that with effective treatment suicide can be prevented. A UBC/Canadian Legion program run by two UBC psychologists, Marvin Westwood and David Kuhl helps soldiers undo the wiring that military training has implanted in their brains, confront their pain, and learn to live again. 64 min.
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Weibo's War - 2011 |
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Director: David YorkBig Oil calls convicted 1990s oilpatch saboteur Wiebo Ludwig an eco-terrorist and portrays him as a patriarchal cult leader. He calls himself a devout Christian driven to defend his Trickle Creek farm from the deadly effects of toxic sour gas wells. Now there’s a new series of gas well bombings, and the RCMP and media are back. David York takes his camera into the heart of Ludwig’s Christian community to create a powerful film about two decades of conflict. Film shot by the Ludwigs chronicles a litany of horrors: livestock deaths, mass miscarriages of lambs and of human babies with similar deformities, severe reactions to gas flares, and desperate attempts to reach government agencies. Their footage of confrontations with gas workers and police, and its stark contrast with media reports, raises a critical issue: when politicians and police become sock puppets for private interests, is vigilante action justified? 93 min. | |
Films shown at 2013 Film Nights | |
The Fourth World - 2011 |
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Director: Mark VolkersThe Fourth World takes you inside slums on three continents to meet individuals caught up in the largest people migration in the history of the world. Understanding 'a billion people' is almost impossible, but meeting a handful of slum dwellers strips away the statistic and begins the process of building understanding. Journey with the filmmakers to Guatemala, Kenya and the Philippines to meet slum dwellers. Listen to published experts--leaders in their fields from three more continents--as they bring understanding to the 'why' of slums, and foreshadow what's going to happen if the world ignores this social powder keg much longer. fourthworldfilm.com (website includes trailer) 54 min.
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