On The Go
The Widows (play)
While backpacking through India, two Canadian widows take a morning off from the rigors of travel in their hotel room. Tucked beneath the supposed safety of their mosquito nets, they have a discussion to remember as public service announcements, uncircumcised penises and a pink flip-flop battle it out against men, motherhood and malaria.
Face the Future
Environmental public awareness campaign
Please click here for the Face the Future brochure (June 2009)
- Fact: due to climate change, in less than 50 years there will be no more polar bears left in Canada’s Southern Hudson Bay region.
- Fact: in Canada, childhood asthma quadrupled in the past 20 years
- Fact: a recent Toronto-based study revealed that 35 to 45% of parents leave their vehicles idling while waiting to pick up their children from school.
- Fact: if every Canadian idled their vehicle 5 minutes less per day, more than 1.6 million tones of CO 2 would not enter the atmosphere.
- Fact: individual actions do make a difference.
Click here to purchase your anti-idling vehicle decal, Our Driving Habits Destroy Habitats. All proceeds go towards production costs of the Face the Future public service announcement series.
Click here for an anti-idling article by Maryanne Pope:
Alberta Version (PDF) | Canadian Version (PDF)
A Widow’s Awakening (creative non-fiction book)
By Maryanne Pope
Eight years in the making, this extraordinary – and true – story of soul mates, saints, saviours, suicide and safety in the workplace charts a young woman’s emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual journey through the first year of grief after the on-duty death of her husband, a police officer. Click here to order your copy!
God’s Country; The Nell Shipman Story (feature film)
In 1919, Canadian-born silent screen siren, screenwriter, director, producer and environmentalist Nell Shipman starred in one of Canada’s highest grossing films, Back to God’s Country, which was filmed in Northern Alberta. Today, ‘God’s Country’ is an ironic term for what is quickly resembling a lunar landscape due to massive oil sands development. So when a contemporary filmmaker creates a controversial short film about the oil sands, she soon realizes that Nell Shipman’s spirit lives on.
C’s Trial (short film)
When Rhea, an Alberta mom with a penchant for Kafka and a passion for polar bears, learns that a local group of oil executives and petroleum geologists is running a marketing campaign to ‘educate’ people that global warming is a myth, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
Put Yourself in Our Boots (building safety video for the John Petropoulos Memorial Fund)
Think your workplace is safe? Turn off the lights, trigger the alarm and put yourself in the boots of emergency services personnel – police, fire, EMS, security – who could be at your premise after hours, in unfamiliar surroundings, poor lighting and stressful circumstances.
Your workplace is their workplace . . . is it safe? This 7 minute video will educate building owners, managers, safety coordinators, etc about the risks to emergency workers ‘hidden’ in seemingly safe workplaces. www.jpmf.ca