29 year-old Melanie is in love with her life in Toronto, but out of love with her long-distance boyfriend. Her breakup throws her easy life into mild existential crisis, but the arrival of a new boy on the scene, Lewis, diverts her attention and helps her rediscover the joys of a lazy summer in the city. Acting as unofficial tour guide, Mel introduces him to her neighbourhood. Together they buy Lewis a bike from a crotchety yard salesman, and embark on a two-wheeled urban adventure. But is Mel ready to switch gears? Unsure of her true heart feelings, she and her gang of young, witty friends take in the season's last gasps.

Working collaboratively over the course of a year, co-directors Sarah Lazarovic, Geoff Morrison, and Ryan J. Noth created a largely improvised film, using non-actors and shooting with a tiny crew and budget. Using an intimate and immediate aesthetic, they created an honest and funny portrait of a generation resisting commitment.

(August 2010)

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Official Selection - 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

Winnebago Man reveals the story of Jack Rebney (a.k.a. "the angriest man in the world"), who has delighted and fascinated millions of viewers with his hilariously foul-mouthed outtakes from an RV sales video—one of the first and most infamous underground videos to be passed hand-to-hand on VHS tapes, before YouTube turned it into a full-blown viral phenomenon. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer takes on the seemingly impossible task of tracking down Rebney, who turns out to be more savvy, deep, weird, and cool than anyone could have imagined. In short, he's a star. Winnebago Man is a hilarious, smart, and unexpectedly poignant look at one man's response to unintended Internet celebrity, and ultimately a story of how a so-called 'humiliation' can become a beacon of light to many.

(Fall 2010)

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Official Selection - 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

Cat Ladies is a one hour verité documentary that unravels the real story behind the oft-ridiculed 'cat lady' - a cultural stereotype and figure of ridicule for women of a certain age with too many furry companions. Through the intimate portrait of four unique 'cat ladies' we create a sensitive and emotionally honest portrait of women whose lives and self-worth have become intractably linked to cats.

It's not the number of cats that defines someone as a 'cat lady', but rather their attachment, or non-attachment, to human beings. They create a world with their cats in which they are accepted and in control - a world where they ultimately have value.

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Official Selection - 2008 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

The Rise and Fall of the Grumpy Burger follows obsessive filmmaker Marshall Sfalcin as he attempts to make a movie about his family and their once legendary fast-food empire.

Soon, a film within a film emerges and the line between truth and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. Along the way, The Rise and Fall of the Grumpy Burger delves into the madness of amateur filmmaking, the complexities of family ties, and the "truth" about fast food.

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Official Selection - 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

2008 Gemini Award Winner

In 2000, developers purchase the crumbling, century-old Gladstone Hotel to turn it from skid row flophouse into trendy, arts and music hotspot. They think it's empty…until they meet Marilyn, the chambermaid with a heart of gold; Shirley Ann, the cynical front desk clerk; and a motley crew of residents, including Maryanne, an ex-bag lady with a sweet personality who has turned her room into a toxic zone. The staff and residents — some who have been there for more than 30 years — worry they'll be squeezed out during the hotel's revitalization.

The developers come up with a plan: gradual restoration, seeing staff and residents remain upstairs, while the bar serves designer drinks to hip new clientele downstairs. It doesn't work. When experimental filmmaker, Christina Zeidler inherits the mess and forms a "business model that includes social change," the hotel has the last word. City inspectors demand complete rewiring. The boiler blows up leaving the hotel without heat, ceilings leak, walls crumble and now it's up to Zeidler to decide what to do.

Shot over five years in a cinema direct style, this documentary is an intimate and compelling portrait of the effects of urban renewal upon the poor, exposing a pattern of displacement repeated in cities worldwide, and revealing the unintentional roles we often play in the process of gentrification.

(Coming Soon)

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man is a long-overdue look at one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in rock history. The film explores his music and career, from his early days as a jobbing bass player on the Sunset Strip, to mega-stardom in Britain's swinging 60s pop scene as lead singer of The Walker Brothers, to his evolution into one of the most astonishing soundmakers of the last few decades.

(Coming Soon)

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Official Selection - 2010 Sundance Film Festival

Holy Rollers is inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle Ecstasy from Europe into the United States. Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Hasid from an Orthodox Brooklyn community reluctantly follows the path his family has chosen for him, awaiting a pending arranged marriage and studying to become a Rabbi. A charming neighbour, Yosef Zimmerman (Justin Bartha), senses Sam's resistance and propositions him to transport "medicine" for Jackie (Danny A. Abeckaser), an Israeli dealer, and his girlfriend, Rachel (Ari Graynor). Sam quickly demonstrates his business skill to his bosses, who instantly take him under their wing. Now exposed to the exciting and gritty worlds of Manhattan and Amsterdam nightlife, Sam begins to spiral deeper into their detrimental lifestyle, experimenting with Ecstasy and then falling for Rachel. As the business grows, Sam's double life begins to rip his family apart and the community becomes suspicious of his illegal activities. Sam slowly comes to realize the facade behind the easy money and parties. Caught between life as a smuggler and the path back to God, Sam goes on the run, forced to make a fatal decision that could bring the entire operation crashing down.

(Summer 2010)

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Water On The Table is a character-driven, social-issue documentary by Liz Marshall that explores Canada's relationship to its fresh water, arguably its most precious natural resource. The film asks the question: is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? Or, is water a human right like air?

Water On The Table features Maude Barlow, who is considered an "international water-warrior" for her crusade to have water declared a human right. "Water must be declared a public trust and a human right that belongs to the people, the ecosystem and the future, and preserved for all time and practice in law. Clean water must be delivered as a public service, not a profitable commodity."

(Coming Soon)

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Sounds Like a Revolution is a feature documentary about a whole new generation of activist musicians who are living proof that music is an important and powerful tool in the on going struggle for social change.

Focusing on the personal experiences of four independent musicians, we come to understand their motivations and their struggles as they face a post-9/11 environment where dissent is silenced and media outlets either ignore or self-censor material before it's released.

This film is the journey of Michael Franti, Fat Mike, Paris, and Anti-Flag who started their careers when corporate consolidation in the music industry began to make it virtually impossible for political artists to be heard in the mainstream. But these four artists became pioneers, setting an example for many to follow as they were forced to invent new and unique ways to sidestep and break through every attempt to censor them. Through their music and message they have "enraged, enlightened and inspired" a whole new generation of activists around the world. The film is a collection of live performances, political rallies, music videos and uncensored commentaries from some of the most outspoken icons in the business - folk legend Pete Seeger, The Dixie Chicks, David Crosby, Steve Earle, Jello Biafra, Ani DiFranco, Wayne Kramer (MC5) and more. Sounds Like a Revolution offers a unique historical perspective behind the new wave of protest music sweeping America.

(Coming Soon)

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Official Selection - 2010 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

The southern Pacific coast of Nicaragua. American developers charge on, transforming jungle and beach into resorts, hotels, and gated communities. Unexpectedly, the former revolutionaries sweep back into power and re-claim the country. This modern day wild west erupts into a battle between former revolutionaries, angry locals, and foreign developers over the land beneath their feet. But progress marches on…or does it?

(Spring 2010)

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When Dory loses his job at a data-management company and can only find work as a janitor, it looks like his life is going down the drain. To make matters worse, he and his toilet-cleaning colleagues become unwitting guinea pigs in a misguided corporate experiment. But as a strange new life takes shape inside him, Dory learns that sometimes you don't find meaning, meaning finds you.

(Spring 2010)

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An unsentimental elegy to the American West, SWEETGRASS follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

(Spring 2010)

FATHERS&SONS is an alternative feature length drama that employs aspects of documentary and conventional drama in its creation and execution. Following the lives of four very different families as they confront a pivotal moment in their relationships, the film celebrates those unchosen bonds that shape our lives, both the blessings and burdens.

(Fall 2010)

• WINNER of Best New Narrative Director at the Tribeca Film Festival
• WINNER of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival

Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets out on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 litres of alcohol as his only provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey toward the brighter side of life.

(Fall 2010)

Official Selection - 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

An intimate look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humour and insight, the film captures Hefner's fierce battles with the government, the religious right and militant feminists. Rare footage and compelling interviews with a remarkable who's who of 20th century American pop culture, present a brilliant and entertaining snapshot of the life of an extraordinary man and the controversies that surrounded him.

(August 2010)

The original Dr. Strangelove, Wernher von Braun, was a Nazi rocket-scientist, then a founding director of NASA. He had a dream: the military rule of Earth from space. That dream, supported by every US administration since WW2, is becoming reality.

The news makes clearer every day: the technology exists to weaponize space, a massive American industry thrives on it, and nations are maneuvering for advantage.

Are war machines already orbiting Earth? Can treaties keep space weapons-free? Must the world submit to one super-cop on the global beat?

Pax Americana captures this pivotal moment.

With unprecedented access to US Air Force Space Command and startling archival footage, this elegant, forceful documentary outlines the state of play though generals, space-policy analysts, politicians, diplomats, peace activists, and hawks.

(Summer 2010)

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It's almost summer in Sweden and minor indiscretions and misbehaviour abound. Leffe likes to show off for his friends and play salacious pranks, especially when he's drinking. Meanwhile, a righteous grade-school teacher doesn't know where to draw the line: she insists her fellow educators need a bit of instruction. Then there are two young teenage girls who like to pose for sexy photos and to party, but one night in a park, one of them is found passed out drunk by a complete stranger.

(Coming Soon)

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