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Films with Described Video (Ages 15-17)

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Tolerance takes many forms and learning to turn that tolerance into inclusion is one of life’s great lessons. The films included in this playlist will guide older children down that path on issues such as antisemitism, racism, self-acceptance and persecution. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include The Basketball Game Borealis The Colour of Beauty Flawed Hadwin's Judgement Me and My Moulton Minoru: Memory of Exile Neighbours Ninth Floor nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up Reel Injun RiP! A Remix Manifesto

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Films with Described Video (Ages 15-17)

Tolerance takes many forms and learning to turn that tolerance into inclusion is one of life’s great lessons. The films included in this playlist will guide older children down that path on issues such as antisemitism, racism, self-acceptance and persecution.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
The Basketball Game
Borealis
The Colour of Beauty
Flawed
Hadwin's Judgement
Me and My Moulton
Minoru: Memory of Exile
Neighbours
Ninth Floor
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Reel Injun
RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Playlist

  • The Basketball Game
    The Basketball Game
    Hart Snider 2011 5 min
    This animated short tells the story of an epic basketball game between kids attending Jewish camp and students of a notorious local Holocaust denier. Nine-year-old Hart is attending Jewish summer camp for the first time. He is both curious and afraid. What awaits him on the basketball court?
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  • Borealis
    Borealis
    Kevin McMahon 2020 1 h 33 min
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  • The Colour of Beauty
    The Colour of Beauty
    Elizabeth St. Philip 2010 16 min
    Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She's got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to look “like white girls dipped in chocolate.”

    The Colour of Beauty is a shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry. Is a black model less attractive to designers, casting directors and consumers? What is the colour of beauty?
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  • Flawed
    Flawed
    Andrea Dorfman 2010 12 min
    Flawed is nothing less than a beautiful gift from Andrea Dorfman's vivid imagination, a charming little film about very big ideas. Dorfman has the uncanny ability to transform the intensely personal into the wisely universal. She deftly traces her encounter with a potential romantic partner, questioning her attraction and the uneasy possibility of love. But, ultimately, Flawed is less about whether girl can get along with boy than whether girl can accept herself, imperfections and all.

    This film is both an exquisite tribute to the art of animation and a loving homage to storyboarding, a time-honoured way of rendering scenes while pointing the way to the dramatic arc of the tale.
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  • Minoru: Memory of Exile
    Minoru: Memory of Exile
    Michael Fukushima 1992 18 min
    The bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor thrust 9-year-old Minoru Fukushima into a world of racism so malevolent he would be forced to leave Canada, the land of his birth. Like thousands of other Japanese Canadians, Minoru and his family were branded as an enemy of Canada, dispatched to internment camps in British Columbia and finally deported to Japan. Directed by Michael Fukushima, Minoru's son, the film combines classical animation with archival material. The memories of the father are interspersed with the voice of the son, weaving a tale of a birthright lost and recovered.
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  • Neighbours
    Neighbours
    Norman McLaren 1952 8 min
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  • Ninth Floor
    Ninth Floor
    Mina Shum 2015 1 h 21 min
    Director Mina Shum makes her foray into feature documentary by reopening the file on a watershed moment in Canadian race relations – the infamous Sir George Williams Riot. Over four decades after a group of Caribbean students accused their professor of racism, triggering an explosive student uprising, Shum locates the protagonists and listens as they set the record straight, trying to make peace with the past.
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  • RiP! A Remix Manifesto
    RiP! A Remix Manifesto
    Brett Gaylor 2008 1 h 26 min
    Join filmmaker Brett Gaylor and mashup artist Girl Talk as they explore copyright and content creation in the digital age. In the process they dissect the media landscape of the 21st century and shatter the wall between users and producers. Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow also come along for the ride.
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  • Hadwin's Judgement
    Hadwin's Judgement
    Sasha Snow 2015 1 h 27 min
    A compelling hybrid of drama and documentary, this feature film covers the events that led up to the infamous destruction of an extraordinary 300-year-old tree held sacred by the Indigenous Haida Nation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Inspired by John Vaillant’s award-winning book The Golden Spruce, the film introduces us to the complex character of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer and survivalist who lived and worked happily for many years in BCʼs ancient forests. Witnessing the devastation wrought by clear-cutting, Hadwin was finally driven to commit what some would say was an extraordinary and perverse act, one that ran contrary to all he had come to value. Interweaving speculation, myth and reality, the film charts Hadwin’s emotional crusade against the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest and explores the possible motives for his unprecedented crime.
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  • Me and My Moulton
    Me and My Moulton
    Torill Kove 2014 13 min
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  • nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (52 minutes)
    nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (52 minutes)
    Tasha Hubbard 2019 52 min
    On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The jury’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured international attention, raising questions about racism embedded within Canada’s legal system and propelling Colten’s family to national and international stages in their pursuit of justice. Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbard, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up weaves a profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own adoption, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies, and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on their homelands.
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  • Reel Injun
    Reel Injun
    Neil Diamond ,  Catherine Bainbridge , … 2009 1 h 28 min
    In this feature-length documentary, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and insightful look at the portrayal of North American Indigenous people throughout a century of cinema. Featuring hundreds of clips from old classics as well as recent releases, the film traces the evolution of the “Hollywood Indian.” Diamond guides the audience on a journey across America to some of cinema’s most iconic landscapes and conducts candid interviews with celebrities like Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson and Jim Jarmusch. The film is a loving look at cinema through the eyes of the people who appeared in its very first flickering images and have survived to tell their stories in their own way.
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