Cinema+for+Social+Change

Ms. Clark - Grade 10 Hot Docs Handout
Ms. Cleland - To Be Updated

= rhsa Library Learning Commons Resources =

"Documentary film has been used as a tool for promoting social change throughout its history. John Grierson, who coined the term `documentary` in 1926, believed it could be used to influence the ideas and actions of people in ways once reserved for church and school. He presented his thoughts on this emerging genre in his 1932 essay, //First Principles of Documentary,// saying, `We believe that the cinema`s capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself, can be exploited in a new and vital art form` (97). Richard Barsam further specified the definition of documentary, distinguishing documentary from non-fiction film, such that all documentaries are non-fiction films but not all non-fiction films are documentaries. He distiguishes documentary from other forms of non-fiction film (i.e. travel films, educational films, newsreels) by its purpose; it is a film with an opinion and a specific message that aims to persuade or influence the audience." Source: `Measuring Impact: The Importance of Evaluation for Documentary Film Campaigns`. Beth Karlin & John Johnson > media type="youtube" key="2Ebh0BaY8m0" width="420" height="315" = Print = = Internet =
 * Circulating Works
 * //Documentary: a history of the non-fiction film// 070.18 BAR
 * //The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide// 070.18 ART
 * //A History of Cinema for Beginners// 791.4309 KUP
 * //I am not your negro : a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck.// Baldwin, James 323.1196 BAL
 * **Relevant Database Subscriptions**
 * Available on the library home page (Requires passwords for home use - booklarks are in the library)
 * Search / Subject / Documentary films (100s available for streaming online)
 * ** Websites **
 * Films for Action Watch Documentaries Trailer:" Schooling the World" "Trailer: "Human"
 * Toronto Public Library - Kanopy on demand streaming (Requires a TPL card)
 * Academy Award Winning documentaries 2016 Winner -' OJ Made in America' 'I am Not Your Negro' 2018 Nominee: Strong Island
 * Hotdocs - Canadian International Documentary Festival; "Rumble: :The Indians Who Rocked the World" Rogers Audience Award Winner 2017
 * International Documentary Awards - Dina (2017 Winner) Couple on autism spectrum
 * CBC Documentaries Film:" Transforming Gender" Trailer " Transforming Gender "
 * CBC DocZone Age of Anxiety Faking the Grade Volunteers Unleashed
 * National Film Board Must-watch NFB Films; "Between: Living in the Hyphen" Trailer: "Twelve" (Immigration); The Devil's Toy
 * Top Documentary Films " The Cove "Film Trailer: "The Cove" Tashi and the Monk
 * PBS Frontline Program: "Dropout Nation" "Growing Up Trans"
 * Media Education Foundation: documentary films, challenging media (cost $)
 * Must-Watch Documentaries for 2018 (Amnesty International) "Human Flow"
 * ====** Websites for Aspiring Documentary Filmmakers **====
 * Documentary Organization of Canada
 * ====** Articles Online **====
 * The Guardian on-line: 'Reel to real: can documentaries change the world?'
 * Utne Reader/Cure Ignorance: How to Watch a Documentary
 * Michael Moore's 13 Rules for Making a Documentary Film
 * 25 Documentaries Everybody Should Watch
 * __The Journey of Documentary__
 * International Documentary Association Documentary Magazine Online News & Blogs
 * 50 Documentaries you Need to See (The Guardian)
 * Huffington Post's Must-See Documentaries


 * ===** @Academic Research Skills **===

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 * ====** Thinking Critically about Documentaries **====
 * ====** Presentation skills **====

Other Suggestions:
TED Talks - This website contains interesting experts speaking on many social issues. Beautiful Trouble: A toolbox for revolution

How the power of a film inspired a young woman to take action:
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Recommendations by issue
Audrie & Daisy Half the Sky It's a Girl Killing Us Softly 4 Misrepresentation ||< **Religion & Racism & Homophobia** "The Abominable Crime" "The New Black" "Holler if you hear me: Gay and Black in the Church" ||< **War on Drugs** "The House I Live In" Pot Fiction Russell Brand: End the Drugs War ||< **Social Activism** Rebel Geeks ||< **Surveillance** **& Privacy**
 * < **Gender & Violence**

Whoa Canada State of Surveillance

Do Not Track Episodes ||< ===Poverty===

Wasteland(art & garbage) ||
 * < ===Sexuality===

(A)sexuality (trailer)
"Taking the Cake" ||< **Food & Farming** The World According to Monsanto ||< ===Work/Career===

Generation Jobless
||< ====**Environment &Climate Change**====

Chasing Ice
Addicted to Plastic ||< ===Aging/Elderly=== The Remaining Light - A documentary film about how we care for seniors (Canada)

56up ||< ===War===

The Fog of War
"Iraq in Fragments" ||
 * < ===Education===

Race to Nowhere
||< ===Gun Violence===

Bowling for Columbine
||< ===Internet & Social Media===

Web Junkie
||< ===Adoption===

Somewhere Between (China)
"Approved for Adoption" ||< ===Genocide===

"Aghet"
||< ===Capitalism/===

Financial Crisis
"The Corporation" || Blue Gold Gasland **Stealing Africa** ||< ===Health Care Systems===
 * < ===Natural Resources===

Sicko
||< ===Bullying===

Bully (trailer)
||< ===LGBT===

||< ===Indigenous Peoples===

Unrepentant(residential schools)
Our People Will Be Healed The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man This River (missing women) ||< ===Middle East===

"Waltz with Bashir
||
 * < ===Animal Rights===

Animal Rights
"Maximum Tolerated Dose" Virunga Blackfish ||< ===**Cyber-Terrorism**===

"How Anonymous Hackers Changed the World"

"The Story of Aaron Swartz Anonymous" ||< ===Mental Health===

The Devil and Daniel Johnson
||< ===Abortion===

The Abortion Diaries
||< ===Women Soldiers===

The Invisible War
||< ===Child Soldiers===

Soldier Child
|| The Fundamentalists "Jesus Camp" Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief ||< ===Racism===
 * < **Religious Extremism**

'Dark Girls'
||< ===Voluntourism=== Volunteers Unleashed

Voluntourism ||< ===Families===

Gayby Baby
"Babies" ||< **Criminal Justice System** "Dogs on the Inside" NCR (not criminally responsible) 13th (USA) A Decade Behind Bars:Return to the Farm ||< ===RIght to Die===

Right to Die
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