| Description |
1 online resource (56 min.) |
| Summary |
Future Makers is a series telling the stories of a new generation of passionate change-makers. Their work is shaping and defining our future in inspiring and imaginative ways. For the Robb Nash Band, performing is a matter of life and death. Using music to spark tough conversations on depression and suicide among youth, Robb Nash, 35, inspires hope one concert at a time. After a diagnosis of MS changed her life, 29-year-old aspiring Olympic athlete Crystal Phillips founded the Branch Out Foundation, an institute that funds the investigation of a new area of medicine blending holistic and conventional approaches to health. Charles DeGuire, 33, inspired by his brother, created a robotic arm dubbed 'JACO' -- an intuitive, flexible design that attaches to a wheelchair and becomes an extension of the person using it. PhD Dan Werb, 36, an award-winning epidemiologist and journalist with expertise in HIV is on a mission to change the way we think about drug addiction |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed December 07, 2018) |
| Performer |
Narrated by Sarah Polley |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Medical innovations -- Canada
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Depression in children -- Canada
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Nervous system -- Diseases -- Research
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Drug addiction -- Canada
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Depression in children.
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Drug addiction.
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Medical innovations.
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Nervous system -- Diseases -- Research.
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Canada.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Callender, Adrian, director
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Wala, Amar, director
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Murray, Andrew (Film director), director
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Polley, Sarah, narrator
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White Pine Pictures, production company.
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