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Third World Canada

3 Suicides leave 8 siblings orphaned in a First Nations community struggling with 3rd World conditions

Set in the backdrop of the aftermath of the suicide of three parents, the documentary explores the impact of 3rd world conditions on the children left behind and a community's courage in looking after them.
Running time: 45 minutes

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Executive Producer, Director, Writer: Andrée Cazabon
Cinematographer, Editor: Peter Shatalow

Filmed in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Ontario
With the Assistance of: the Ontario Art Council, the Law Foundation of Ontario, Laidlaw Foundation and the Atkinson Charitable Foundation

15% of all Sales are donated directly to children in First Nations communities and those who work with them.

If you are interested in getting involved with this project, contact us.

Letters to a Street Child

Price: $139.00
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Package Description: 1 DVD - Letters to a Street Child (French & English) + LETTERS OF HOPE BOOKLET + USER GUIDE

A 25-minute docu-drama based on the letters the filmmaker received from her father while she was addicted and on the streets at age 13-14.

Widely used for/and by parents, professional training of police officers, front line workers, governmental agencies and is an effective prevention and intervention tool for schools, youth institutions and treatment facilities.

Letters of Hope booklet is a collection of letters from youth around the world designed to offer hope to those who may be struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The collection of letters provide youth who have survived hopelessness a chance to make meaning out of the meaninglessness of their experiences by providing them with the opportunity to write their own story to share with others. The letters are a mix of feelings of hopelessness as well as stories of hopefulness.

User Guide for professionals & educators

The user guide for professionals and educators comes in a three-ring binder to facilitate photocopies and adding new letters or sections as they are uploaded on the website throughout the year.

The user guide outlines uses for the film in therapeutic and classrooms settings along with resources on different themes raised within the film such as: sexual abuse, drugs & alcohol, mental health, family, hope & healing, giving back and prevention and intervention.

Uses for the booklet and Letters of Hope is provided along with outlines for running a writing workshop for different youth audiences and settings and supporting youth participation to the project. It also includes a section for working with parents of at-risk youth.

2 Year Subscription

The user guide includes a 2 year subscription to updated & revised chapters & materials.

Family on the Edge

One father's struggle to hang on to his kids while living in a homeless shelter

In the sudden aftermath of his wife's departure, Steven finds himself as the sole parent and provider of his two children. Exhausting every other option, Steven moves his small family to a homeless shelter in Peterborough, Ontario in the hopes of finding a home in time for Christmas. Over the course of a year, the film explores a family at risk and a father's determination to hang on to his kids.

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Produced, Written and Directed by Andrée Cazabon at the YES Shelter in Peterborough, Ontario.
© All rights reserved - Productions Cazabon - 2010
Running time: 26 minutes - In HD

Wards of the Crown

Following the lives of four teenagers on their way out of the foster care system, the documentary explores the legacy of a childhood spent inside the Children's Aid Society.

42 minutes
French & english versions

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Winner of the Best Socio-Political Documentary at the 2006 Golden Sheaf Awards - (Yorkton Film Festival), Wards of the Crown aired on CBC Newsworld - The Lens and Radio-Canada - Enjeux in 2006 - 07. One of the only Canadian documentaries filmed inside the child protection system, Wards of the Crown raised awareness of youth ageing out of care with little to no resources and no one at their side.

The filmmaker, the documentary and the youth participants have been featured on a cross-coutnry tour with the Child Welfare League of Canada offering profesional development on the issue of youth ageing out of care. Inspiring the first national paper on youth ageing out of care, Building a Future Together (Dudding, Reid) not only encouraged change within the child protection system, it also influenced the Australian Child Welfare system.

Today, Andrée Cazabon continues to offer professional workshops and keynote addresses on youth transitions from government care. Herself having spent time in youth institutions and group homes, Cazabon wants to make a difference for those living through it today.

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Productions Cazabon supports the work of the following projects and organizations:

• The North-South partnership (Mamow Sha-way gi-kay-win)
• Andrée's Dream: 1 full Scholarship for 1 youth from care in every Canadian College or University
• First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
• the Letters of Hope project
• the Mentorship project

We invite you to make an addtional donation (of $5.00 or more) through this website. Every donation helps.