Screening: The Spirit of Annie Mae (followed by a discussion with the Director) Dir. Catherine Martin, 2002, 73m March 7, 6:30pm - Paul O'Regan Hall In 1975, Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, a 30-year-old Nova Scotia born-Mi'kmaw, was shot dead, execution style, on a desolate road in South Dakota. Nearly three decades later the crime remains a mystery. Aquash was highly placed in the American Indian Movement (AIM), a radical First Nations organization that took up arms in the 1970s to fight for…

Screening: Gulabi Gang Dir. Nishtha Jain, 2012, 96m March 21, 6:30pm - Paul O'Regan Hall Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And yet it is hope that we discover as we follow the pink sari-clad women of Gulabi Gang. These women travel long distances by cart and tractor, bus and train, to wrest justice for women and Dalits, undeterred by sneering policemen and condescending bureaucrats. Sampat Pal,…

Screening: The Little Black School House (followed by a discussion with the Director) Dir. Sylvia D. Hamilton, 2007, 60m April 4, 6:30pm - Paul O'Regan Hall This one-hour documentary unearths the story of the children, women, men who were students and teachers in Canada’s racially segregated schools. With a vibrant musical score composed by jazz legend, Joe Sealy, it is a poignant and unfailingly honest evocation of the struggle of African Canadians to achieve dignity and equality through education. Extraordinary archival film…