Kathleen Shannon Movies

Authors, teachers, social activists and feminists explore manifestations of contemporary women's spirituality in the Western world.

A young man of the Kainai Nation (Blood tribe) shows us contemporary life of people as he attends a Sun Dance ceremony with the tribe.

This short film recreates the experience of Sylvie, a battered woman who seeks shelter in a Montréal transition house. Faced with the threat...

Five women are black belts in karate, which to them is more than self-defense, it's a philosophy for life.

Rousing tales of the North-West Mounted Police are brought to life through photos and artists' sketches. In 1873, the North-West Mounted Police were...

The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs,...

A comparison of four different families in India, France, Japan, and Canada.

Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining...

I'll Find a Way is a 1977 short documentary directed by Beverly Shaffer. It is about nine-year-old Nadia DeFranco who has spina bifida. The film won...

The short documentary looks at some innovative approaches to providing services and accommodation for battered women in rural, northern, and Native...

Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she...

A vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.

A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.

Intercut with illustrative stock footage, Adam's World present a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a feminist theologian, environmentalist, and...

A film by Christopher Chapman, known for his lyrical films of countryside and wilderness. He turns his colour camera on the growing city and there...

A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.

Joan is a welfare mother with seven children. Originally from the Maritimes, she now lives in Montréal. She would like to work as a waitress,...

A critical look at marriage and motherhood through the views of a group of young girls and boys and a group of married women, contrasted with glossy...