Laurentian Objectives

Documentary

Overcoming Image

In our era of universal communications, idealized images of more or less standardized “perfect bodies” are continuously relayed to us all on all media platforms. As millions strive to attain omnipresent beauty standards, there are also those that reject standardization...

Documentary

On the Ice Floe

Worlds come together on the wintery shores of the St-Lawrence River as the visiting French artist Joseph Kieffer provides the local ice floe fishermen of Rimouski an offer of sharing: Inspired by authentic stories of their lives, he would design a weather vane for each narrator’s ice fishing shack.

Documentary

Resilience in Midwifery

The practice of midwives is floundering in Quebec and many say it is in ultimate decline. This contrasts with the fact that there are not enough practising midwives to provide parents in Quebec the birth support they are seeking as the demand for “outside-of-the-hospital-system”...