A documentary exploring the recent rise in Legal Highs available in Britain and the effect these new substances are having on our Youth and Society. With content from young users of these drugs and Scientists and Therapists we explore every angle of this growing pastime and rapidly growing problem.
Languages: English
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Transgender Parents
TRANSGENDER PARENTS is about love, life and kids after a gender transition. It shares the struggles and strengths of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of parenting: from pregnancy, through raising infants, toddlers and teenagers. Some, who transitioned prior to founding their families, experience fertility clinics and hospital births; others, who transitioned in the presence of their kids work to renegotiate their identity and relationships within their families. All are openly out in the world as trans and as parents in ways that weren’t possible 20 years ago.
Syrus and Nik, both in their 30s, live in downtown Toronto. We follow their story from Syrus’s pregnancy to the 2nd birthday of young Amélie as they make their way in the world as black gay trans men with a blond blue-eyed daughter.
Aiyyana is a Haudenosaunee grandmother who was born male and has journeyed through genders and considers herself a transformed woman. An accomplished writer and award-winning theatre artist, Aiyyana is building a home on her childhood reserve along with one of her adult children.
Originally, from Alberta, Jenna is a 30-year-old trans-mother-to-be who runs an organic farm with her partner near Montreal. We earn about her path to motherhood, and witness the hours following the arrival of her baby.
Stefonknee is a trans woman of 45 who came out when her 7 children were almost all teenagers. The process of finding herself and going public has been too much for most of her family to bear. She has moved to Toronto from rural Ontario where she is a speaker and activist. We follow her on a visit to her hometown as she tries to heal broken connections.
Hershel, a Jewish trans man in his late 60s, is a psychotherapist whose son was 19 years old when he transitioned. We witness their loving and at times difficult relationship as both speak candidly about their experiences as parent and child over the last fifteen years.
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The Saviour of Ceylon – The story of Leonard Birchall
All wars produce heroes but rarely in a global conflict do the actions of one man affect the direction and possibly even the result of the whole war. In Leonard Birchall’s case that is precisely what happened. The young Canadian Squadron Leader from St. Catherines, Ontario, on patrol in the Indian Ocean in April, 1943, spotted a Japanese fleet on its way to attack the British base at Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Birchall, knowing he would be shot down, radioed a description of the makeup of the task force back to base. He was plucked out of the ocean by the Japanese, and endured three and a half years of captivity serving as Senior Allied Officer in four Japanese prison camps. Leonard Birchall kept a detailed record of that experience in diaries which he buried – these were dug up after the war and formed the basis for a number of successful war crime trials. Winston Churchill, even before he knew Leonard Birchall’s name, or that he had survived, called him “The Saviour of Ceylon.”
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Focusing on Early Years
This video resource looks at various aspects of the Early Years Setting from the basics of Health and Safety to areas of employment within this rewarding industry. The topics of Preventing Accidents, Controlling Infections, and Types of Early Years Settings are highlighted as well as Career Pathways and the roles of workers in different Early Years Settings. This video resource has additional support notes with questions and answers for your students and includes interviews with personnel working in the industry which shows a true reflection of life working in the Early Years Sector.
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Farm to Fork: Primary and Secondary Processing
How does food get from the farm to our table? In this program we trace the route cereals, fruits, vegetables and dairy products take to get from the point of origin to the consumer. We also explore why there are often several processing steps in between before it can reach your plate.
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Food Safety and Hygiene
Food safety is an important topic to all students learning how to prepare food. This video covers the most important food safety and hygiene to teach (or remind) students about best practice covering the areas of: cleaning, food storage, avoiding cross contamination, and safe heating and cooling practices.
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Drug Addiction
Drug addiction has been part of human life for thousands of years. In the 21st Century, have we evolved to a point where we are effectively combating the damaging effects that drug addiction is having on our teens? Or are we still fighting a losing battle? Phillip Day, an ex Drug User, talks frankly about his experiences with numerous substances and the effect they have had on his body and lifestyle. We also speak to The Priory Hospital about the treatment types that they offer and rehabilitation options provided. As well as this, Zack Haider provides an alternative idea that drug addicts are too wrapped up in cotton wool and society is quick to make excuses for them.
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Science Lab Skills 1
Practical skills are paramount for students of science, but learning the basics can be daunting for students just starting out. This collection demonstrates the correct and safe procedure for: operating fire safety equipment, such as a fire blanket or extinguisher; operating personal safety equipment, such as an eye bath and spills kit; basic techniques such as lighting a Bunsen burner and wafting; taking measurements using a thermometer or measuring cylinder; using a pH meter; and performing dilutions using a volumetric pipette.
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Science Lab Skills 2
Practical skills are paramount for students of science and it’s an ongoing process. New skills are constantly being introduced, some of which build on more basic concepts. This collection demonstrates the correct and safe procedure for: carrying a scalpel and using a microscope; using a spring balance, ticker timer and Hodson light box; connecting meters in circuits; separation techniques; how to test for the presence of gases or organic compounds; and how to perform a titration.
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The Call
Lighting up that first cigarette could be the worst decision a person makes. Yet 4,000 young Americans make that decision every day. Whether from peer pressure, wanting to appear cool, influence of family members who smoke, or whatever personal reason – kids enter this treacherous arena with little regard to the consequences of their decision.
We are filmmakers and educators passionate to stop kids from smoking before they begin. Our youth smoking prevention program is intended for middle school students – kids who will soon consider one of the most critical health and lifestyle decisions they will ever make: the decision to smoke or not.