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Born in Turku, Finland, Hannele Halm moved to Toronto, Canada in the late 1960s where she studied movie production. She has worked as a film editor and director on close to 50 movies, including the Paul Cowan film 'Westray' which won a Genie award for best documentary in 2002. She lives with her husband, director Giles Walker, in Montreal, Quebec.
Total trailers found: 28
11 September 1996
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility.
26 April 2015
Ted "Black Lightning" Patrick's practice of "deprogramming," also known as "reverse brainwashing," started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultists-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from cults.
29 April 2003
Filmed at the Wing Fong Farm in Ontario, this documentary follows the tilling, planting and harvesting of Asian vegetables destined for Chinese markets and restaurants.
01 October 1991
This film explores the distant relationship between an elderly amateur musician, the woman who lives in the apartment above him, and the leaky bathtub that is bothering them both.
14 February 1978
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan.
01 January 2006
In this feature documentary, 6 student activists visit 36 Canadian towns to take on one giant corporation.
30 September 2007
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
20 November 2014
Juanicas is an intimate portrait of a Mexican immigrant family in Quebec affected by mental illness. Using material shot over almost 10 years, the filmmaker documents her complex relationship with her mother and brother, both suffering from bipolar disorder.
25 April 2015
A feature documentary about the life of former Newfoundland Premier, Danny Williams
16 June 2000
A snapshot of the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley focusing on a handful of people: Luke Ford, a reporter who breaks the industry's gentlemen's agreement and writes about actors who have HIV/AIDS; Kimberley Jade, a veteran actress who contracts AIDS; Katie June, who arrives in Los Angeles from the South, going on 20, with dreams of becoming a porn star and with her mother's approval; Jim South, who runs a talent agency; and, William Margold, an aging factotum.
01 January 2008
Documentary about Harvard-trained theologian Stephen Jenkinson, a grief counselor who teaches that death empowers us to live and that we must not only accept death but embrace it.
29 April 2017
In the suburbs of Montreal, Mutang is a family man. But in Malaysia, he was a voice of resistance for the indigenous peoples of Sarawak.
09 September 2007
When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were killed.
01 January 1986
This documentary looks at the microchip, an American invention exploited by the Japanese that caused a second industrial revolution.
12 May 2019
In the stark Labrador interior, a growing number of Filipino workers have recently landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, travelling halfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new opportunities and a better life.
02 February 2004
In the fall of 2002, it was announced that Benjamin Netanyahu would deliver a speech at Concordia University in Montreal, and reaction from the student body was swift and sudden.
01 January 1994
What would make an ordinary woman kill her husband? This powerful documentary is about three battered women who, after years of violence, kill their abusers.
05 May 2011
For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife and 15 children.
15 September 2019
Deeply rooted in artistic families, young Luben Boykov and Elena Popova escape the repressions of communist Bulgaria and find refuge on the island of Newfoundland in 1990.
01 January 1992
In 1992, an independent South African puppetry group, the African Research and Educational Puppetry Program, were invited by OXFAM (Canada) to bring their highly successful educational program 'Puppets Against Aids' to tour rural and regional Canada for twelve weeks.
01 October 1990
A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
09 November 1984
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them.
01 January 1991
The hunters are the Innu people and the bombers are the air forces of several NATO countries, which conduct low-level flights over the Innu's hunting terrain.
01 January 2003
Acclaimed documentarian John Walker catches the legendary Cape Breton Miner’s singing group The Men of the Deeps just as the last mines on the island are shut down.
30 April 2012
Young Afghan women train to represent their country as boxers in the 2012 Olympics, embarking on a journey of personal and political transformation.
04 March 1997
Upon Canada's entry into World War II, the RCMP rounded up thousands of people it considered fascist sympathizers.
04 September 1992
A retrospective of documentary films by Donald Brittain offering a glimpse of the man and the restless energy that informed his work.
01 January 1997
This animated short features 2 neighbouring gophers with very un-neighbourly appetites for anger and revenge.
