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Absolutely Canadian Season 23 Episodes

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Season 23 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - Wabanaki Modern

An exploration and celebration of an influential art movement within the Indigenous community in New Brunswick in the 1960’s.

  

Episode 2 - Creatorland: Four Women

Creatorland: Four Women follows the lives of extraordinary women creating impact in their communities through art, food, and culture.

  

Episode 3 - Ottawa Reel Shorts

Short films produced by student filmmakers and independent producers from the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Films include: Ottawa is a Drag, Impulse Control, and Dancing Towards a New Dawn (2022/2023).

  

Episode 4 - Toronto Reel Shorts (2022)

Short films produced by students in television, film, media arts, animation and independent filmmakers from Toronto-GTA. Films: Black Boys Skate Too, Diya, Every Sunset, and Lost in You.

  

Episode 5 - Rooted

Dylan Jewers is on the hunt for unique traditional music, and he’s taking us along for the ride. In this one-hour documentary Jewers is on a personal quest to track down extraordinary Nova Scotia musicians from a variety of backgrounds.

  

Episode 6 - Effected

A former Canadian soldier builds special effects for movies to help manage his PTSD.

  

Episode 7 - Giiwe - Returning Home

Following filmmaker Taye Alvis as he looks to reconnect to his community of Walpole Island First Nation. Taye will explore his relationship to Walpole Island, and how one can reconnect to their traditions and culture by way of conversation, arts, and recreation.

  

Episode 9 - Bump and Feed

A Nova Scotian chef turned pro-wrestler overcomes addiction, trauma, and grief to fulfill their childhood dream. Then a split-second in the ring changes everything.

  

Episode 10 - Cold Dip

A Canadian veteran and artist practices cold dipping in Nova Scotia as a way to heal physical and emotional trauma from a life no one expected her to pursue.

  

Episode 11 - The Lobster Whisperer

When Michael Sullivan is not fishing lobster, he’s thinking about how to fish lobster. A 5th-generation fisherman living on Quebec's Gaspé coast, he has tasked himself with building 200 wooden traps during the cold, dark winter months while waiting for the next season to begin. The program takes place in Michael’s small basement workshop, out on his boat, and underwater, as there is another important voice to balance the narrative: that of the lobster from the ocean floor. Award-winning poet Sue Goyette, and award-winning animator Aparna Kapur bring the lobster to life, its voice resonating uncannily like that of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. The lobster offers up its thoughts and dreams – a chorus from the depths of the ocean. Michael works in his workshop, he waits, and the lobsters wait. Are the lobsters part nightmare, part fever dream, and part ghosts from centuries past? An evergreen capsule of the relationship between our species in fragile harmony with our surroundings, and a deep insight into this longstanding local tradition of this special maritime region in Quebec.

  

Episode 12 - Foreign Legacies

First-generation Montrealers recount their experiences and parental pressures as they embark on their careers, and reconfigure their definitions of success.

  

Episode 13 - Creator Network Presents

Meet a Trash Can Picasso, a rot artist, and a young speed freak. These are a few of the curious characters starring in nine short docs by up-and-coming Manitoba and Saskatchewan filmmakers.

  

Episode 14 - Trout River and the Blue Whale

The remains of one of the biggest animals to ever live land on a small town beach, attracting global attention and changing a Newfoundland outport forever.

  

Episode 15 - Freeman Patterson – The Universe Is Unfolding as It Should

An artistic snapshot of the remarkable life and career of eighty-four year old Freeman Patterson - one of this country’s most celebrated Photographers and environmentalists.

  

Episode 16 - Moral Injuries, The Art of Jordan van Sewell

World-renowned ceramist Jordan Van Sewell is at a crossroads. His gallery has closed, yet his creative fire still burns. How will he stay relevant and marketable, particularly as a senior artist?

  

Episode 17 - Fresh Catch

Get hooked on "Fresh Catch," a documentary showcasing small-scale sustainable fishermen and women working to preserve the BC west coast ecosystems and coastal communities.

  

Episode 18 - Indian Braves

Following the work done by the Last Post Fund to honour Indigenous veterans by purchasing/installing gravestones, this doc travels across the country to meet veterans and their families to hear their stories of life in the Canadian military.

  

Episode 19 - Running For Your Life

Junel Malapad is a passionate runner who has built a dedicated following. Now, after more than a decade and countless kilometres pounding the pavement, is he is paying an unexpected price?

  

Episode 20 - Work

What am I without my career? What is my purpose? Four Manitobans - a farmer, a nurse, a junk dealer, and a teacher - ask these questions, and face the fears and uncertainty that come with retirement.

  

Episode 21 - Food Is My Teacher

Food can teach us love and bring people together. But for Tammara Soma, a food professor, food was originally a source of pain. Join her journey to learn about the healing power of food.

  

Episode 22 - Rooted: Songs of Unama'ki

In a race against time to revive their dying language and culture, the Mi'kmaq of Unama'ki (Cape Breton) are turning to the musical traditions of their ancestors.

  

Episode 23 - In the Quiet and the Dark

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of an Eastern Hemlock forest in Nova Scotia, the film follows the passionate people fighting to save it from an invasive tree-killing insect.

  

Episode 24 - The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy

The inside story that weaves together the rich history of the authentic Cowichan Sweater, who knits them, and how and why they became the beautiful and strong icon of the Coast Salish Peoples.

  

Episode 25 - Fennario: The Good Fight

David Fennario, the great Quebec playwright (famous for Balconville, among others) and militant socialist, is now confined to a wheelchair, but that has not dampened his will to take action, and fight for progress. Martin Duckworth, a major figure in Canadian documentary cinema, captures all of his contradictory energy. Over the course of this encounter, the filmmaker attentively and enthusiastically records Fennario's charismatic presence, his political humour, his desire to be heard at all costs, for example through his last play, Mother House, a denunciation of the horrors of the First World War. By filming the process of staging the play, Duckworth reflects on the power of art while creating a poignant portrait of a man marked by history.

  



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