reFrame Films (Firm)
Publisher
reFrame Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This film documents a unique development project that bought social work practice to rural women in China. The project was initiated by the Faculty of Social Work of Canada's University of Manitob in collaboration with China's Women's University and the Women's Federation of China. Over a six-year period, they introduced rural social work service models in three Chinese provinces. The priority in each region was similar - the training of trainers...
Publisher
reFrame Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of Giota Boussios, a 48-year-old Montreal woman, born with cerebral palsy. Warm, good humoured, acutely sensitive and keenly intelligent, Giota is restricted to a wheelchair and unable to speak. She has learned to communicate through an intriguing system that uses subtle eye movements and slight facial gestures. Supported by a loving Greek family, she spends her days at an educational program for adults with similar disabilities....
Publisher
reFrame Films
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A small municipality in Montreal finds two very different cultures living side by side: Hassidic Jews and their mostly French-speaking neighbors. Intent on preserving their religious traditions, the Hassidim meet outsiders with a kind of protective wall. Misunderstanding the Hassidic way of life, many of the French residents respond to their neighbors with a mixture of mistrust, frustration and curiosity. Faced with a growing transformation of their...
Publisher
reFrame Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This film is an adaptation of the closing Plenary Lecture of McGill University's 2012 International Congress on Palliative Care - delivered by Dr. Balfour Mount, the father of North American Palliative Care. Dr. Mount explores the challenges that define suffering and define our quality of life. He argues for a health care paradigm shift from the existing disease-oriented, science-based medical model to the more comprehensive perspective of WHOLE PERSON...
Publisher
reFrame Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film takes us inside the world of cricket and the daily life of Montreal's Parc Extension - one of Canada's poorest yet most vibrant immigrant neighbourhoods...Little known in French Canada (Quebec), cricket has hundreds of millions of fans worldwide. For the immigrant cricket players in Parc-Ex, cricket is a buffer, an arena in which they can find success, dignity, and community recognition as they slowly integrate into Quebec society. As we...
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