Articles by Adam Nayman
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The Lives of Artists
Two astonishing West Coast artists, Beau Dick and Shane Koycan, get the full-length doc treatment.
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Ontario: From Boom Town to Regent Park
POV’s coast to coast road trip of Canadian documentary history makes a stop in Ontario to survey films from Toronto: Boom Town to The Stairs.
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Neighbourhood Watch
Social housing neighbourhoods in Toronto – Regent Park and Villaways – are the focus of new films by Hugh Gibson and Charles Officer. Gibson’s The Stairs examines three lives in the newly transformed Regent Park while Officer’s Unarmed Verses draws its inspiration from the youth of Villaways, who believe in their original community.
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Class of ‘15
Profiling up and coming Canadian filmmakers.
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Capturing a Likeness
RIDM series ‘A Photographer’s Eye’, curated by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, explores the art of photo-docs.
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Documenting Epics
Behind the scenes on Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo and Jodorowsky’s unfinished Dune
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Hot Docs 2015: Reshaping Reality
How to Change the World, Deprogrammed; Sugar Coated; and Chameleon address activism and transformative events
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Remembering Peter Harcourt
Canada’s original film professor
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I’ll Take the Rain: Sturla Gunnarsson’s “Monsoon”
A look into Gunnarsson’s poetic essay on India’s climatic game-changer
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Be Here Now
Peter Wintonick and the Search for Utopia