Shelagh Mackenzie

Remember Africville

Shelagh Mackenzie

Delvina Bernard

This short film depicts Africville, a small black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. More than 20 years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.

Unstructured for a Summer

Shelagh Mackenzie

Lypa

Sharon Van Raalte, Shelagh Mackenzie

Lypa Pitsiulak

A look at the life and work of Inuit hunter and artist Lypa Pitsiulak.

Singlehanders

Shelagh Mackenzie, Kent Nason

Cyril Byrne

Follow two Canadians, Bob Lush and Mike Birch, aboard their yachts during the 1980 Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race. More than a record of this prestigious international sailing event, the resulting film is the starting point for an epic of challenge and determination.