The resilience tour Director Biography – Geoff Guich 80m Canada
Three Indigenous women from across the Americas embark on a cycling journey through Ecuador—facing mountainous terrain, harsh weather and their own fears—they ride to support underserved, women-led businesses and to prove, to the world and themselves, the unstoppable strength of their spirit. Plays with Walk off the earth. Click on the (Click here) blue tabs to pay.
Walk Off The Earth at Bud Stage Mike Only 11m Canada
A behind the scenes look at a day in the life of Canadian rock stars Walk Off The Earth at Budweiser Gardens the day of their annual performance. We explore why the home-town show is so special to the band and fans alike, and what goes in to creating a spectacular show.
THE LAST GAME – 60 minutes
Director: Jon Alpert (USA)
Producers: John MacCall MacBain (Canada), Naomi Mizoguchi (Japan)
Every hockey player of a certain age knows the climate is changing.
They/I grew up skating on ponds – at least 4 months a year – now we are lucky to get in 4 days.
The film’s player/guides range from Hall of Fame superstars like Ken Dryden and Jari Kurri – to 3 heads of state – to dozens of beer league heroes – to nomads struggling to save their glaciers – shamans protecting their jungles – First Nationers, Hockey Moms, Maasai warriors, reindeer herders – all joining together – on and off the ice – to save the game they love and the planet they love. Five continents. Fifteen countries. We are hoping we can do something …. and that we haven’t played The Last Game
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Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films.
A native of Port Chester, New York, Jonathan B. Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University and has a 4th degree black belt in karate. In fact he once won the North American team-kumite Karate Championship despite fighting with three broken ribs.
Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative journalist and has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan. He has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 17 National Emmy Awards, ranging from Best Investigative Reporting to Best Sports Documentary. Uniquely, he has won National Emmy Awards in every craft category: Cinematography, Directing, Editing and Sound. Alpert has also won four DuPont-Columbia Awards and a Peabody Award.[4] He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He was nominated for a 2013 Academy Award in the same category for Redemption. Alpert won the Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media with co-director Ellen Goosenberg Kent for their documentary War Torn: 1861-2010.
Director Sharon Yamato 30m USA
The story of one man’s legal battle to regain American citizenship for more than 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced to renounce amidst turmoil and violence at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps. It took attorney Wayne M. Collins more than 23 years to restore citizenship for nearly all of them.
