Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland. Shocking details drive Wills to the core of his birth mother’s resilience, and ultimately his own. In this moving feature documentary that combines 16mm footage and contemporary images with deeply personal conversations, Wills’ voyage transforms from an urgent search for identity into a quest to give a quiet girl her voice.
Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child ...
As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portr...
In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditiona...
My Flesh and Blood is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Karsh chronicling a year in the life of th...
A portrait film of Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador's latest resettlement project.
A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and cop...
They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, deprivi...
In his crusade for literacy, principal Ray Brown enlisted the help of the community and broke throug...
A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different ...
An astounding exposé that gives voice to the unwitting subjects of an infamous American scientific e...
A 1995 David Quinton film exploring the British origins of Newfoundland outport furniture design.
Stan Hill Jr. is a Haudenosaunee artist living in Miawpukek First Nation Reserve, Conne River, Newfo...
Despite the warm images in the family archive, photographer and filmmaker Jonnah misses an intimate ...
From 2000 to 2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now app...
Amidst a mostly Catholic community, a small tiny Anglican church offers more to the community of Pla...
What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at...
A feature length documentary about extraordinary Canadian singer songwriter, Ron Hynes... an insight...
It was a way of life. It was the backbone of a society. And then the cod fishery off the east coast ...
If you want to find world-class artisans, the small northern Labrador community of Hopedale offers y...
A dash of youth, a pinch of age, and an unrecorded recipe: Mudder's Hands is a charming documentary ...