Cindy Filipenko

My Life Me centers around Birch, a shy high school girl with a penchant for the manga/anime subculture. Birch loves anime and manga, and spends much of her time knee-deep in these media. Navigating high school is no less easy even if you have an idea of what you want to do with your life, which in the case of Birch, is to become a professional comics artist. But alas, all the confusions, distractions, and unwieldy personal relationships of modern teendom keep getting in the way. Add to this her school’s ridiculous new learning structure — The Pod Program — which forces kids to partner into groups; and you have Birch’s perfectly and wonderfully mismatched youth

When young Anton Stingley wakes on Christmas morning he finds that instead of the 600 toys he has requested, his gift from Santa is one single simple orange. Why has St. Nick ignored his 16-page list?

This investigative, fast-paced documentary examines censorship in Vancouver from a Generation X point of view. Discussions about the banning of queer newspaper from a Vancouver suburb, the negotiating of queer theory in academia, and the interplay of race and self-censorship in lesbian/gay communities make this video a welcome update on aspects of the anti-censorship debate.

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