Caregiving Re-imagined, a six-part documentary series for the web, profiles individuals working in various of fields – from economics to housing, human rights to technology and genetics – who are breaking barriers to make sure that care is “counted”. CARE REBELS celebrates the vital importance of caregiving. Without it, there would be no households, no workforce, no economy, nothing. The series aims to empower, challenge stereotypes, and shift paradigms. In the series pilot episode, community organizer Janet Torge introduces Radical Resthomes, a new housing initiative for seniors.
Independent filmmaker Helene Klodawsky is passionate storyteller committed to portraying political and social struggles, as well as to exploring the documentary art form. Her work, spanning thirty years, is screened, discussed and televised around the world in venues as diverse as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Kenyan refugee camps. Through her films, leading-edge reflections on gender, justice and conflict are shared world wide. Helene is known for poignant, daring films such as Undying Love (2002), No More Tears Sister (2004) Family Motel (2007) Malls R Us (2009) artfully Come Worry With Us! (2013) and Grassrooots in Dry Lands (2015). Her work has received awards and nominations from the Academy of Canadian Cinema, Hot Docs, Les Rendez-vous du Cinema Quebecois, the Jerusalem International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, to name a few. She is a mother of two and lives in Montreal.