In their first short film Cole and Dale give audiences a rare and candid look inside a private sex parlour during the height of Toronto’s mid-seventies body-rub industry. Their direct cinema approach blends cinéma vérité observation with probing interviews. We see customers come and go and hear the… ⊕

Known as Shaggie to her friends, Marlene Moore's final struggle in life began with a mid-eighties trial that branded her Canada's first female 'Dangerous Offender', allowing her to be locked up indefinitely. She had already spent most of her life behind bars from the age of twelve. Cole met Shaggie when she made P4W and bases… ⊕

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… ⊕

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… ⊕

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… ⊕