Movies: Challenge For Change Societe Nouvelle

  • 1968
    The Ballad of Crowfoot

    The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968)

    The Ballad of Crowfoot

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    Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production u...

    The Ballad of Crowfoot
  • 1975
    ...and They Lived Happily Ever After

    ...and They Lived Happily Ever After (1975)

    ...and They Lived Happily Ever After

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    A critical look at marriage and motherhood through the views of a group of young girls and boys and a group of married women, contrasted with glossy advertisements extolling romance, weddings and babies. The film ends with the thought that the solut...

    ...and They Lived Happily Ever After
  • 1974
    The New Alchemists

    The New Alchemists (1974)

    The New Alchemists

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    This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and wind technology, on a farm in Massachusetts in the 1970s. Well before sustainability was a mainstream co...

    The New Alchemists
  • 1974
    Mothers Are People

    Mothers Are People (1974)

    Mothers Are People

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    Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she speaks for many other women. "The powers that be know that women do work, but they turn a deaf ear." Ap...

    Mothers Are People