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On Girls

On Girls Melissa, 19, sits in the waiting room of an abortion clinic trying to contact her boyfriend so he will stop her. Please visit ON GIRLS' website: ongirlsfilm.com. A short film written and directed by Kim Nelson. Starring Monica Sanborn. Cinematography by Lana Oppen. Edited by Maria Cusumano. On Girls was made by a…

Belt of Clay (in production) Belt of Clay traces the history of the “Back to the Land” scheme of the 1930s, an initiative that saw the relocation of out of work men and their families from southern Ontario to the fertile but frigid Clay Belt of north. This had been the third attempt by the…

130 Year Road Trip 130 Year Road Trip is about a specific history, the historian and history itself. Historian Rob Nelson drives through the Prairies of Canada, from Berlin to the open farmland of Western Poland, retracing the journeys of German settlement expert Max Sering (1857-1939), to explain the unknown impact of the colonization of…

Noiseborder’s Subatomic Time In Spring 2012 I documented Noiseborder’s performance of Subatomic Time and created two pieces about the work, one a documentary of the performance, performers and process and the other an edited filmic performance film. Making Subatomic Time Subatomic Time (Performance Film) About the Performance Piece Subatomic Time (2010-2012) is a 35-minute performance…

This is What a Feminist Sounds Like Rebel. Nun. Ex-nun. Activist. Feminist. Pacifist. Pat Noonan has been called all of these things. They are all true. This is What a Feminist Sounds Like is the story of 80 year old social activist Pat Noonan and it is a guided tour of the burgeoning of woman’s…

Metazombie Directors’ Statement Metazombie was not the film I set out to make. When I met the main character in MetaZombie she was working in a government office and dying to break into the film industry. She was a funny, charming, middle-aged aboriginal woman with a head full of Oprah patented aphorisms, a passion for…

Berliner The struggle between multiculturalism and assimilation plays out daily in the districts of Berlin as women’s clothing and the soccer team one cheers for become politicized proclamations of religious identity and cultural belonging. Since the wall fell, many Germans of Turkish descent have felt that Germany wants them to go home. But where is…

Our Playground A short film created in conjunction with a fundraising effort to build a greener playground for a public elementary school in Windsor, Ontario. In English and French with English subtitles. Inadequate green spaces and play areas for children in public schools is an issue across the country.

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