Articles by Ezra Winton
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Unsettling the Nation*
Documentary dissent in Canada.
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A Structured Inequity
A continued analysis of the implications behind Hot Docs’ selection of Bee Nation as its opening night film.
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The Slow Burn: Committed Canadian Documentaries at Hot Docs 2017
A look at Canadian documentaries State of Exception, The Road Forward, Manic and Unarmed Verses.
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Review: ‘Bee Nation’
How do we spell colonialism? A different take on the Hot Docs opener.
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DocLit: “Documentary”
Like all great essays, this collection creates more conundrums while approaching key questions.
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Upping the Anti-
Documentary, capitalism and liberal consensus in an age of austerity.
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New Nordic Documentary Cinema
Writer, Cinema Politica programmer surveys the trends toward the personal and politics in docs from Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and Norway.
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A Film Festival Grows Up
An overall look at the Hot Docs Festival, past and present – and speculatively – the future by Cinema Politica founder Winton.
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Multiculturalism, Radical Outcasts and Superheroes
Documentary teacher and curator Winton offers his critical take on recent docs on education.
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Beyond the Textbook
Documentaries can be great learning tools for students—and sometimes, their teachers. In a society where film is often the new “text,” educators are harnessing docs in innovative ways.
