Hot Docs: Grace, Milly, Lucy– child soldiers now available in Media Services

In Uganda, more than 30,000 children have been abducted by rebel troops over the past 20 years and forced into armed conflict. Many of these child soldiers are girls. When they return from captivity, the girls struggle to be accepted in their communities and make their voices heard. DVD 8899 Distributor webpage: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c792.shtml

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Hot Docs: How to boil a frog now available in Media Services

An eco-comedy (documentary feature film) that mixes rapid-fire humorwith hard-hitting facts to show the consequences of overshoot: toomany people using up too little planet, much too fast. Gives us anoverview of our situation and 5 surprising ways that regular peoplelike you and me can save civilization, while making our own livesbetter now. DVD 9186 Film […]

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Hot Docs: Impunity: What kind of war for Columbia? now available in Media Services

“Colombia today: the biggest trial against Paramilitary armies – accused of killing thousands of Colombians – is designed to create “peace and justice”. Instead the process comes to an abrupt halt, when the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are uncovered. Are the victims’ families doomed to stay victims forever or are they […]

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Hot Docs: Our Daily Poison now available in Media Services

According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of cancer has doubled over the last thirty years (after allowing for the population aging factor). Over this period, the increase in leukemia and brain tumours in children has been around 2% per year. The WHO has observed a similar trend for neurological diseases (Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s) […]

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Hot Docs: Mr CO2: Life after Kyoto now available in Media Services

He has expanded through the very air we breathe. He’s galvanized activists around the globe to fight him, and stymied the world’s political leaders. Meet Mr. CO2: carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. This documentary may use whimsical animation to personify carbon dioxide emissions, but its message is dead-serious: if we fail to […]

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Hot Docs: Miss HIV now available in Media Services

This documentary explores the international collision of HIV/AIDS policies while following the journey of two HIV-positive women who entered the annual Miss HIV Stigma-Free pageant in Botswana. Filmed across Africa and at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto this explosive EthnoGraphic film shares both sides of an ideology struggle. What is happening in Botswana, where […]

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Hot Docs: Man who stopped the desert now available in Media Services

Documentary film about Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from northern Burkina Faso who has become a pioneer in the fight against desertification and hunger. His work over a quarter century has resulted in the successful rehabilitation of farmland, the regrowth of forests, the return of former residents to their homeland, and praise from international organizations. […]

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‘Life in a Day’: An entire crowdsourced feature film. Watch it for free!

“Life In A Day” project – a part documentary, part home video series created from crowdsourced YouTube clips–is now available to watch for free on YouTube. The film, directed by Oscar winner Kevin McDonald and produced by multiple Oscar nominee Ridley Scott is stitched together from user-generated content and depicts one day of life on […]

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