In God We Trust highlights the effects of ideologically driven funding on HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Uganda. Despite millions of USAID dollars being poured into the country every year, the HIV prevalence rate is currently around 7% and rising. International funding has been crucial to the treatment of those infected with the virus, but has …
Street Stories – 2010 Ramz was commissioned by YWCA Montreal to contribute to a program, funded by the Minister of Public Health, which focuses on the prevention of recruitment of girls in street gangs. “Street Stories: girls, gangs, and realities” features the stories and experiences of over a dozen Montreal youths who have either …
Ghosts – 2010 Three Arab-Canadian men are detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and Egypt. Upon their release they return to Canada struggling to find some answers as to why they were detained and tortured. An internal inquiry into their cases, the Iacobucci Inquiry, reveals that the Canadian government …
Cloud Nine – Cleansing the world of cluster bombs – 2009 Cloud Nine follows a team of clearance personnel based in Guinea Bissau. Steve Ballinger and his wife, Cassandra Mckowen, co-founded Cleared Ground Demining in 2005 with the intention of making a difference in the world of mines action. The film puts the experiences …