Summit of the Americas, April 20, 2001. Quebec looks like a city under siege. While guests from the political and financial spheres discuss the agreements of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) inside the security perimeter, groups of people from across the continent protest in the streets. Most of them want a peaceful demonstration. Others don't. The weekend looks like it'll be hot, and that it is. With cameras on their shoulders and almost suffocating from the fumes, seven film crews follow the Quebec events.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

For over 30 years Shelby Lee Adams has been photographing the mountain people living in a rural region of eastern Kentucky where he grew up.
The film juxtaposes the filmmakers' colour footage of Adams and his subjects, documentary footage shot by Adams on video, again in colour, of the mountain families, and Adams' black and white still photographs.
In the film we meet the Childers, an unusually happy family who have struggled for years to keep three mentally challenged children at home, the Napier family, who lost ten children to violent deaths and live without running water or electricity, and an outlawed sect of the Pentecostal Holiness church whose members drink strychnine and handle rattlesnakes to prove their faith in God.
Many question Adams' work and methods. Seen in galleries and in books, do his depictions of eastern Kentucky's mountain communities reinforce "hillbilly" stereotypes or do they simply document a way of life far-removed from modern American culture?
Historically, the people of Appalachia have been labelled by mainstream America as inbred, violent and lazy. The film examines the history of representation in the region and the current attitude towards it while offering comments by critics with conflicting views on the nature of Adams' work. More importantly the film shows the back story to what are essentially works of art rather than documentation.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

Documentary about Tom Chomont, a controversial American experimental filmmaker.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)