A mini documentary about three women’s experiences with their new motherhood identity.

This documentary shares the journeys of two women looking to become their most authentic selves. To do this, they attend the RAW Retreat—A women’s only retreat organized out of Toronto, ON. Over the 3-day weekend, they develop deep connections with their fellow retreaters and start the process of learning to love and accept themselves just as they are.

Questions of identity, expression, and representation are increasingly relevant as they play out as social issues and on social networks. The documentary short I is for Identity follows ten individuals as they explore how the performing arts, role-playing games, and even dressing up for Halloween help us learn about ourselves and each other.

Knit together from the subjective insights of 13 unique women, ROAR is a contemplative docu-poem that challenges how we define power.

After mourning their respective partners following 30+ years of romance and marriage, two young-at-heart widowers discover new love.

In a society where our public lives are regularly photoshopped and filtered to advantage, The Curated Self follows one woman’s experience grappling with her perceived and desired self as she navigates her very first glamour photography shoot.

Living Relations: Decolonizing Food Systems in Aotearoa New Zealand & Canada is a 20-minute documentary following Tayohserontye Nikki Auten of the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community and Jan Hania, Indigenous Māori elder of Aotearoa New Zealand as they meet in person for the first time with the Living Relations team.

 

Conceived in 2023 from a partnership among the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3ci) in Canada and the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre (NTRC), the Living Relations research project brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners from across Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand to strengthen Indigenous food sovereignty efforts through sharing stories and knowledge across cultures, continents, and generations.

 

As Nikki and Jan experience the wonder and wisdom of the Teme Augama Anishinaabe and Temagami First Nation lands on which the team gathers, they teach us different Indigenous ways of knowing, and invite us to open ourselves to connect with the land, water, and beings that comprise the world around us.

Racing toward a live concert deadline, a group of high school students work together with seniors living with dementia to turn the seniors’ life stories into original songs. As the students struggle to capture their senior partners’ remarkable lives, one of the program’s longtime founders prepares for retirement, raising the question of what the future holds for this unique intergenerational program.

 

Told through a mix of interview and observational scenes, Memories to Music is a 20-minute documentary that shares the story of legacies–the legacy of a life, a program, and a connection. In a post-Covid world plagued by anxiety, isolation, and social disconnect, Memories to Music shows us how to find our way back to each other, one quarter note at a time.

 

This project is in progress (coming in 2027!).