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Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Canada's iconic filmmaking duo takes us behind the walls of the women's prison in Kingston, Ontario, turning the camera on five incarcerate women who share stories and affirm the complexities of humanity with their poignant and humorous frankness.
Labelled "Canada's most dangerous female offender," Marlene Moore, known as Shaggie, took her life inside the Prison for Women at the age of 31. Janis Cole constructs a personal memory about her lost friend.
Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.
The film unfolds to reveal some of the filmmaker's friends who lead alternative lifestyles. We meet transsexuals, homosexuals, hookers, transvestites and female impersonators.
A cinema verité documentary about the mid-seventies body rub industry in Toronto. Customers furtively come and go, and women talk together in the dressing room, explaining the tricks of their trade.
This searing indictment of society's failure to deal with intimate partner violence pays homage to Cathy Bowie, a vibrant young woman whose life became a headline and then faded into a statistic after she was murdered by her husband, George Jackson.
