I just finished watching the fascinating, fun, exciting and yes, inspirational Netflix documentary film, Crip Camp. Crip Camp is the story of a summer camp for disabled teens that ran during the 70’s and just happened to spawn leaders of the modern movement for disability rights. I highly recommend this
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daveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: KONELĪNE: our land beautiful is screening at the Globe Cinema
KONELĪNE: our land beautiful, a new documentary film about resource development in the far north of British Columbia, is screening at the Globe Cinema in downtown Calgary this weekend. Featuring amazing cinematography, the film focuses on the natural beauty and complex… Continue Reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Kidnapped for Christ – AKA Child Abuse.
What? The religious using coercive tactics to harm children. Unpossible. From Wikipedia: Kidnapped for Christ is a documentary film that details the experiences of several teenagers who were removed from their homes and sent to a behavior modification and ex-gay school in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic. The film was directed
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’: Israeli and South African parallels
Clips from “Roadmap” that draw Israel/ S. African parallels A feature-length documentary Roadmap to Apartheid is the first time close parallels between the apartheid of the old South African regime and Israeli-style apartheid have been explored in a documentary film in significant depth. The parallels between the two systems have
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker, Tomer Heymann (known more recently for his works I Shot My Love and The Que…
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker, Tomer Heymann (known more recently for his works I Shot My Love and The Queen Has No Crown), It Kinda
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker, Tomer Heymann (known more recently for his works I Shot My Love and The Queen Has No Crown), It Kinda
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