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The Walk: A Path to Healing • The Hunt and The Walk

Dennis Allen, Big Red Barn Entertainment, Mackenzie Delta Films, Alexis Arthur, Ken Malenstyn

Inuvialuit and Vuntut Gwichin filmmaker Dennis Allen accompanied the Kahso Go'tine, a North Slavey Dene group of people, as they reconnected with their traditions through an historic trek over a traditional walking trail unused for 30 years.

Wanderings: A Journey to Connect

Nikila Cole, Force Four Entertainment Inc, Rob Bromley

A Canadian mother and daughter travel the 4,000-year-old Jewish diaspora and find the key to an unknown past.

Waneek Horn-Miller • Chiefs and Champions

Annie Frazier Henry, Big Red Barn Entertainment, Ken Malenstyn

This episode of the Chiefs and Champions series profiles Water Polo sensation, Waneek Horn-Miller.

Watching for the Queen

David Rimmer

A mathematically ordered restructuring of two seconds (48 frames) of stock newsreel footage, primarily concerned with the frame as information unit and the change in formation between frames.

Water As Taonga: Aotearoa • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 4)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Kristy Assu

A visit to the University of Waikato reveals more information about the terms of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi in relation to Maori Water Rights in New Zealand.

Water As Taonga: Kaitiaki, Part 1 • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 4)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Kristy Assu

In keeping with the cultural belief that water is "taonga"--a precious cultural treasure--the Maori believe they are guardians, or "kaitiaki" of the environment. The McGuire family, members of the Pahutiki Marae in Hawks Bay, New Zealand are struggling to restore a river system for a formerly abundant species of flounder and "tuna", or eel.

Water As Taonga: Kaitiaki, Part 2 • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 4)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Kristy Assu

Other explorations at restoring river systems can be found in the question: how do people mitigate the damage caused by dams and de-forestation?

Water As Taonga: Water Is Taonga? • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 4)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Kristy Assu

Marianne Jones and Jeff Bear travel from Canada's west coast to New Zealand where they meet with Maori leaders. The Maori explain the sacred relationship they have with water. Their migration to New Zealand in the 13th century predated that of settlers, or "infinite others" as the Maori call them, by 500 years; and in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the Maori were granted rights for control of land, water and self-determination.

Water Stories • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 1)

Marianne Jones, Jeff Bear, Kristy Assu

Water Stories provides an overview of the series, the significance of water for Indigenous people and why society takes it for granted. It introduces host Severn Cullis Suzuki, the next generation environmental storyteller.

Waving

Ann Marie Fleming

A woman recalls the intense, complex relationship that she shared with her maternal grandmother.

Wayson Choy: Unfolding the Butterfly (Secrets & Memories)

Michael Glassbourg

This inspiring documentary explores the rich and extraordinary life of storyteller, sage and activist Wayson Choy through his own words.

We Are One With the Land | 'NAMEGAN'S OM DLU'WANS AWINAGWISEX

Barb Cranmer, 'NAMGIS First Nation Chief & Council

People from the Kwakwa'kawakw's 'NAMGIS First Nation take a canoe trip through their traditional territory on Vancouver Island. They reflect on their connection to the land-- the core of their lifeblood and culture, and on their intent to negotiate a modern-day Treaty with the government of British Columbia and the government of Canada.

We Carry Each Other's Memories

Allan Tremblay, Danny Crain, Barb Martin, Marillyn Simon Ingram

In this collaboration between Marilyn Simon Ingram (IRS survivor and advocate), Barb Martin and Outreach Productions, Indian Residential School survivors in Atlantic Canada reflect on their experiences with the Shubenacadie Residential School in central Nova Scotia.

We Don't Live in Igloos: Inuvik Youth Speak Out

Janet Ip

While the media too often focuses on Inuit youth struggling with solvent abuse and suicide, We Don't Live in Igloos goes beyond the stereotypes to ask teens in the Canadian North about their real experience.

WE REMEMBER

Raymond Yakeleya, Bill Stewart

In the late 1970s, Raymond Yakeleya travelled to five communities in the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories. He talked with elders, some of them his relatives, from the Slavey and Loucheux tribes about their memories of the past and their thoughts for the future. With the help of camera operator Bob Charlie and editor Bill Stewart, Yakeleya created a 60 minute documentary in two parts--a significant time capsule that reflects on the history of these people whose their lives were forever altered by the influx of Europeans into their traditional territories.

Weather • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 2)

Jason Krowe, Kamala Todd, Nehiyawetan Productions, Loretta Sarah Todd

Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to the weather.

WebCam Girls

Aerlyn Weissman, Producers on Davie, Cari Green, Harry Sutherland

WebCam Girls profiles some of the early female pioneers in cyberspace who, with a modem and some moxie, take on old ideas about fame and shame and open up a space for new kinds of art, erotica, pornography, celebrity and branding on the internet.

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

Jill Sharpe, Omni Film Productions, Gabriela Schonbach

In this fast-paced documentary, celebrated Canadian filmmakers consider the question--Just what is Canadian film?

What is Haida Art? • Ravens and Eagles: Haida Art (Series 1)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Ravens and Eagles Productions

This introduction to Haida art from the Haida perspective follows five themes-formline, ceremony, function, preservation, songs and language. The artists and themes featured here are more fully explored throughout the series.

Where to Next? • 80:20—The Developing World

Connell Smith, Gretchen Kelbaugh, Rowan Ridge Productions, Story First Productions

Where to Next? gives a thoughtful perspective on foreign aid, pointing out that outcomes are often greater for business development in donor nations than poverty reduction in recipient countries.

Who Killed Miracle?

Scott Renyard

In June 1977, a baby orca was spotted swimming erratically in Menzies Bay near Campbell River, British Columbia. It survived several brushes with death to become a star performer at Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia. Five years later, the whale known as Miracle died under mysterious circumstances. This documentary revisits the circumstances surrounding her life and death and reveals a more complex story.

Who the Jew Are You?

Alan Goldman, Blueplate Productions

The intersection of faith and culture while keeping respect for a partner's culture and tradition in a mixed marriage are at the root of this journey to explore and understand Jewish identity.

Why Don't You Just Leave?

Anne Popperwell, Al Razutis

Poetic images, uncompromising text, and voices of men and women expose the implications of domestic violence towards women. Created as a video installation piece for a travelling exhibition of paintings by west coast artist Anne Popperwell, Why Don't You Just Leave? presents an innovative way of contextualizing and expressing an important subject.

Why?

Carol Halstead

A 60-year-old woman responds to the question, "Why are you in art school at your age?" by telling the story of the struggles and adventures that have brought her to this stage of her life.

Wild Rice • SAMAQAN: Water Stories (Series 2)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Kristy Assu

North America's Indigenous people have always had a sacred relationship with water. This series shows their perspective on a most precious resource–a resource to be protected, not a commodity to be exploited.

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