Omar Khadr is the Canadian youth who was captured by American Forces in Afghanistan and spent over a decade in Guantanamo Prison. He was released on bail in Edmonton in May of 2015 at age 28. Based on the book by award-winning journalist Michelle Shephard who co-directed the film with Patrick Reed, “Guantanamo’s Child” chronicles […]
This Wednesday, March 9th, is the Awareness Film Night screening of British investigative journalist and filmmaker John Pilger’s latest documentary “The War You Don’t See”, about the media’s role in promoting and glorifying war. Usual time and place. By donation. A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of […]
On January 12th Awareness Film Night will present an hour with George Galloway. An outspoken, anti-elitist Scottish M.P. for 25 years, George Galloway is a galvanizing speaker who recently completed a cross Canada tour in which he spoke of many things, wars and (would be) kings and the state of the Canadian government and its […]
The Canadian government, representing all of us, has sent troops to Afghanistan. We have been told that the mission there is to help the Afghan people. American filmmaker Robert Greenwald (“Outfoxed”, “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price”, “Iraq For Sale”) decided to find out if the situation in Afghanistan after 8 years has indeed […]
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine have made documentary films in some of the wildest corners of the globe. But nothing prepared them for their shoot in the remote refugee camp of Patongo in northern Uganda which is so isolated and dangerous that most aid workers won’t even go there. They’d planned to make a […]
Awareness Film Night January 9th – “Dahr Jamail – Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From An Unembedded Journalist”. Film of a talk given by Dahr in Vancouver one month ago in which he discusses what’s happening on the ground in Iraq today and what it felt like to be in Iraq as an unembedded journalist. […]
Wednesday October 3 – “The Ground Truth” – tells the story of soldiers – how they are recruited, how they are trained to overcome their natural aversion to killing, what they experience on the ground and their struggle to reintegrate into their families and communities when they come home. Producer/director Patricia Foulkrod writes “I wanted […]
In a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, filmmaker Velcrow Ripper takes the audience on a visually stunning pilgrimage to Earth’s Ground Zeros searching for hope and meaning in the turmoil of the darkest moments of recent human history. Ripper’s search takes him to the minefields of Cambodia, war torn Afghanistan, the toxic wasteland […]
