She instinctively began filming what she saw, and eventually a chance connection led her to Wesley Edgar, a London-based photographer/videographer who jumped on board. Southwestern Ontario connection: The inspirational seed for “Forest City” was the clear-cut of a mature forest that Caroline Nolan witnessed from the balcony of her 12th floor condo in the Hyde Park area of London, Ontario. Synopsis: Witnessing a six-acre forest be clear-cut for houses in London, Canada, from her 12th floor condo, Caroline Nolan explores urban forest issues and family roots. Much of this story takes place in Southwestern Ontario. Matt Gallagher, the director, grew up in Windsor. Southwestern Ontario connection: Rob Talach, the lawyer is a London Lawyer. A story that echoes thousands of other sexual abuse victims’ stories around the world.
PREY documents one survivor’s efforts to seek justice. More importantly, for the plaintiff, it is about exposing the truth of how and why the sexual abuse of children can have gone on for so long without the Church stopping it.
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The trial is not about guilt or innocence, but about how much money the church must pay in compensation for the devastating fallout from the abuse. The abuser makes his presence known in court in the form of a haunting video deposition taken before his death - a taped confession sealed from public view until now. The defendants at trial are The Basilians, a Catholic religious order. His civil lawyer has filed 395 suits against the Church, earning him the nickname “The Priest Hunter”. The plaintiff in the landmark Canadian court case was abused for years as a boy at the hands of a Catholic priest fifty years ago. PREY follows one survivor as he pursues justice through a public trial in the hopes of forcing the dark and hidden story of clergy sexual abuse to light. Widespread sexual abuse within the Church has traumatized thousands globally.
Winner of the prestigious 2019 Hot Docs Rogers Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Feature and the DGC Special Jury Prize, PREY is a riveting and unflinching account of a survivor of clergy sexual abuse and his civil lawyer as they take on the Catholic Church. The casting was done by a Hamilton company. Southwestern Ontario connection: The Filmmakers are from the Hamilton region. It’s a feat that one rarely sees attempted, let alone succeeded at - but that’s only one of the reasons White Lie is one of the most fearless and emotionally affecting films you’ll see this year. While the film has much to say about social media’s impact on contemporary culture its chief virtue is its insistence that we look at, and empathize with, a protagonist who does the unthinkable. And as her story slowly begins to unravel, she disastrously decides to double down, unable to give up the real-life fantasy world she’s constructed for herself. The only problem is, it’s all built on a lie: Katie isn’t sick, and never has been. Synopsis: Having become a campus celebrity after a (fictional) cancer diagnosis, a young woman (Kacey Rohl) struggles to maintain her fabrication in this fearless and emotionally affecting new feature by Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis (Amy George, The Oxbow Cure, Spice It Up).Ī young woman who has become a literal poster child on her university campus: recently diagnosed with cancer, she’s the focal point of an online funding campaign for both herself and other cancer-related causes.
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