The All Native Basketball Tournament and its importance to the Haida people are looked at in Saints and Warriors. The All Native Basketball Tournament in Prince Rupert has for six decades been one of the most popular events for the First Nations of Haida Gwaii, off the coast of British Columbia. For many years, the…
The lead journalist for Bellingcat goes on the run after being targeted for assassination by Russia in Antidote. Christo Grozev is the lead journalist of the open-source news organization Bellingcat, who is assisting a whistleblower of Russia’s poison program to flee the country. However, Grozev himself begins to fear for his life, forcing him to…
Israeli comedian and activist Noam Shuster Eliassi uses the Israel-Palestine conflict as the basis for her one woman show in Coexistence, My Ass. Noam Shuster Eliassi is a Jewish woman of Romanian and Persian descent who grew up in the Israeli village of Neve Shalom, or the Oasis of Peace, where Jews and Arabs live…
The career of trailblazing deaf actor Marlee Matlin is revisited in Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore. In 1985, a 19-year-old Marlee Matlin was cast in Randa Haines’s film adaptation of Mark Medoff’s play Children of a Lesser God. This role made Marlee Matlin the youngest Oscar winner for Best Actress and an icon for the…
Spoken-word poet Andrea Gibson reflects on their life after being diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer in Come See Me in the Good Light. Andrea Gibson is the Poet Laureate of Colorado and a rock star in the world of spoken word poetry. In 2021, Gibson put their career on hold after being diagnosed with ovarian…
The final years of an elderly couple in China are documented in The Gardener and the Dictator. Filmmaker Hui Wang returns home to Wuhan, China to film her elderly grandparents, Kuai Xianzhuang and Wang Zhongxian, both of whom are in their late-80s. Kuai has decreased mobility and Wang has become her primary caregiver. Hui Wang…
The subcultures surrounding the world’s most dedicated soccer fans are explored in Ultras. The dedicated fans who crowd into Football stadiums are considered to be the world’s most popular subculture. Ultras are responsible for creating the atmosphere at soccer matches, with their flag-carrying, singing, and elaborate tifo banners. Ultras from Italy, Argentina, Sweden, England, Egypt,…
The son of a popular spiritual healer has to deal with his conflicted feelings when he is asked to attend a ceremony in Supernatural. André Malby was an infamous spiritual healer and shaman, who many claim cured people telepathically. One of these people is actor Anna Alarcón, who believes Malby cured her of teenage anorexia…
The tragic story behind a photo of an indigenous man that went viral is told in #skoden. Beginning around 2008, a photo of an indigenous man putting his dukes up spread around the internet. Initially used in a derogatory fashion by white supremacists, the photo was reclaimed by indigenous individuals as an Internet meme using…
Filmmaker Eleanor Mortimer joins a team of taxonomists from the Natural History Museum in London on a research mission studying deep-sea creatures and the effect that proposed mining operations may have on them in How Deep is Your Love?. The deepest depths of the oceans are one of the last frontiers of human discovery, with…
