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How Director Elle-Maija Tailfeathers Discovered a Path to Healing on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis Jennie Punter, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director and producer Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers opens her documentary “Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy” with a peaceful, slow-motion scene of buffalo calves grazing alongside their mothers while the voice of the filmmaker’s mother, a family doctor, is heard gently speaking to a mother about her baby. A coproduction between Tailfeathers’ Seen Through Woman Productions and the National Film Board of Canada, which is also ...

*Exclusive Canadian Premiere* This true-crime documentary-style series follows Mike Mildon and his true-crime-obsessed best friend Jackson Rowe as they attempt to solve this coldest of cold cases. In 1934, Mike's great-great-uncle, Harold Heaven, mysteriously disappeared from his cabin in Minden, ON. Local police searched the nearby woods and lake, but Harold was never found nor heard from again. Eighty-six years later, Mike and Jackson head back to Minden to attempt to uncover the truth with the help of Mike's extended family, town locals, old photos and 1934 police reports. The further the...

Releases include The Communist's Daughter, The Slowest Show, and a new season of Broad Appeal by Staff on February 27th, 2021 at 9:00 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3 Here’s everything new coming to CBC Gem in March 2021, including these highlights by our critics. Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated experimental documentary about a group of friends living in Alabama’s Black Belt dispenses with traditional narrative in a search for the sublime. Shot over five years, the director uses associative editing to create a story out of sensory experience while emphasizin...

Note: Against the Tides, Citizen Jane and Love, Gilda are all part of CBC Gem’s International Women’s Day Collection that’s launching on March 5th. Meanwhile,  American Woman, Indian Horse, Normal People, Room and  The Skin We’re In are all part of CBC Gem’s Book Lovers Collection, which is also releasing on March 5th. March 12th Broad Appeal (Season 2) Room For Rent March 19th The Communist’s Daughter Happy Valley (Season 1) Mary Goes Round Cool Daddy Hale County This Morning, This Evening [exclusive Canadian premiere] The Slowest Show Something Undone Miss Scarlet a...

A month before COVID ran rampant in the United States, fans of Native film had reason to celebrate. What now seems like years ago, Maori filmmaker Taika Waitiki took the stage on February 9 th, 2020, at the Academy Awards ceremony to accept the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Set in Nazi Germany in the waning days of WWII, the winning film, Jojo Rabbit, was justly lauded for conveying a cathartic message of hope and humor during a time of unspeakable horror. Yet it’s the message Waitiki spoke from that elite podium that resonates loudest. The first Indigenous person to be nominated and ...