Past Films
Past Films
Finding sally
A personal investigation into the mysterious life of the director’s aunt Sally, an Ethiopian aristocrat-turned-communist-rebel who disappeared during the Ethiopian Revolution. Finding Sally tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country’s revolutionary fever, landing on the military government’s most-wanted list. She went underground, and her family never saw her again.
Screening Information: www.findingsally.com
World Sales: Rise and Shine
Stream in Canada on CBC Gem and in the US on AfroPop/PBS
Awards: Adiaha Award for Best Documentary by an African Woman, Africa Diaspora Film Festival Audience Award, Gordon Parks Award for Black Excellence
Nominated: Canadian Screen Award, Best Documentary Program
Girls of Latitude
Director: Liz Marshall
Broadcasters: MTV Canada, CTV, MTV International
Girls of Latitude follows MTV hosts Nicole Holness, Diane Salema, and Aliya-Jasmine Sovani as they each travel separately to a developing country—Haiti, Colombia, and Sudan—to showcase and discuss gender discrimination in those particular countries and meet with three young women who are working to make a positive change in their countries and communities.
Forgotten Children
Director: Craig Goodwill
Distribution: eOne
Exploring the situation of restavecs (child slaves) in Haiti through the eyes of different personalities including pop singer George Nozuka, a Canadian UN peacekeeper, and Haitian youth.
Grandma Knows Best?
Director: Tamara Mariam Dawit
Broadcaster: Bravo, Planet Africa
Tamara sets out to reunite her Ukrainian and Ethiopian grandmothers. Instead, her grandmothers used the opportunity to conspire to convince Tamara to get married and have kids. Tears, begging, black magic and praying to god followed. Grandma Knows Best? explores the differences in the lives and societal expectations of women from her grandmother’s generation to the directors and how society views single women, divorce and motherhood.