By Anne Brodie The Norwegian black and white Gunda, an Academy Award® Shortlisted documentary is a beautiful, joyous, difficult and emotional experience. Produced by animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky, it's the story of a pig and her nineteen newborns, …
Gangs, Saints, Revolting Babies, Teen Angst and Hysterical Motherland!
Sundance Now's Motherland By Anne Brodie Steven Soderberg's noir period gang comedy No Sudden Move on Crave owes a huge debt to Noah Hawley's Fargo Season 4. Set amidst Black and Italian gangsters in the fifties, it's shot similarly with similar funky period music given a cool update, …
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Barbra-Joi Mitchell’s Pandemic Pivot with Picnics in the Six
Presented by RBC Barbra-Joi's expertise in hospitality and passion for bringing people's special celebrations, dates and proposals to life, has made her business one of Toronto's most trendy and Insta-worthy picnic services. Picnics in the Six was created when Barbra-Joi was inspired to …
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Tracey Deer’s Beans – a Mohawk Child’s Traumatic Experience of Canada’s Oka Crisis.
Violah Beauvais and Kiawentiio, in Tracey Deer's Beans Tracey Deer's heartbreaking, fact-based film follows Beans, a young girl living on a reservation near Oka, Quebec, who had just been accepted into a prestigious school in Montreal. Her dream is interrupted when First Nations protesters battle …
Heroic Women, Truth-Seeking Women, Frontline Women, Entertaining Women – Film TV and Streaming Stories.
By Anne Brodie An inspirational, fable-esque but true story of a woman who stands her ground against ancient sexist traditions and social backlash will have you cheering! God Exists Her Name is Petrunya starring talented and intuitive first-timer Zorica Nusheva, is set in a Roman Catholic …