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Recent Acquisitions

Discover what’s new at Vtape! These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the past six months. New acquisitions can include older works that have recently been brought into distribution.

Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)

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P4W: Prison for Women

Janis Cole, Holly Dale

1981, 82:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2162.03

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A key work by filmmaking team Janis Cole and Holly Dale, P4W: Prison for Women is the only film ever made inside Kingston's notorious maximum-security prison before it was closed in 2000. P4W is a shattering look at love and isolation in the most desperate of places. The filmmakers' approach results in a gripping and dignified… ⊕

Hookers on Davie

Janis Cole, Holly Dale

1984, 89:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2162.02

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Themes of women, gender diversity, sex work, sex workers, street prostitution. The film was shot at the height of the Davie Street red-light stroll in Vancouver, known at the time as the prostitution capitol of Canada. Hookers on Davie is the only documentation of Davie Street before a court injunction eliminated sex workers… ⊕

Calling the Shots

Janis Cole, Holly Dale

1988, 118:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2162.01

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Personal and illuminating, Calling the Shots focuses on the diversity of films being made by women. "It's an examination not merely of women working in the movies, but of women toiling in any highly professional, male-dominated field. "On one level a straightforward look at well-known women in the film business, the… ⊕

why some people be mad at me sometimes

Mahlet Cuff

2024, 02:50 minutes, colour

tapecode 2185.00

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A meditation on the misappropriation of Dancehall music while using Black Feminist Citational praxis. why some people be mad at me sometimes is a single-channel experimental film that cites the mother of Dancehall Sister Nancy singing her song bam bam in dialogue with Maya Angelou’s performance of the poem The Mask. The… ⊕

Burn Pile

Jonathan Culp

2025, colour

tapecode 770.44

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A Super 8mm film installation. Burn Pile climaxes a decade-long purge of belongings, an outcome of extensive healing work around my mood disorders and gender nonconformity. After much selling and donating and passing along, I was left with a handful of precious objects that no longer served me or the world. The six burns… ⊕

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