by david | Mar 22, 2016 | Film, podcasts
Listen in as Sophia talks about her new film Inside The Chinese Closet, LGBTQ rights here at home and in China, trust, transparency and why she’s still optimistic about the future. TIFF and Human Rights Watch co-present the 13th annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival...
by david | Mar 21, 2016 | Film, podcasts
Listen in as Eileen talks about her new film A Jihadi In The Family, Islamophobia, brokenness, and the power of real community. See the trailer and read more here. Synopsis Overnight, Calgary mother Christianne Boudreau has a new identity, “mother of a terrorist,”...
by david | Mar 18, 2016 | Film, podcasts
Listen in as Magali talks about the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the power of film to work towards social change and why she might be a cynic at heart, but still eternally hopeful. TIFF and Human Rights Watch co-present the 13th annual Human Rights Watch Film...
by david | Mar 16, 2016 | Film, podcasts
Peter talks about the ”dialectics of violence”, why cooperation will be essential to our survival as a human race, why he makes films for himself and how capitalism is a killer system. Biography Villon Films was founded by Peter Davis, who has written, produced, and...
by david | Mar 14, 2016 | podcasts
Listen in as Gilad and Amar talk about why they think that human rights needs to be rebranded, their new podcast The Hum and why there is always a reason to hope. The Hum Podcast The term ‘human rights’ often brings up images of pain, oppression and injustice. It’s...
by david | Mar 11, 2016 | Film, podcasts
Listen in on our chat today with Jamie Dagg and Rossif Sutherland talking about their new film River, the Mekong and unintended consequences. River opens March 13th – 2016. Read more about the film here. Synopsis – River Accused of murder after intervening in the...