Articles by Jason Anderson
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Willie Then and Now
The inspirational story of Willie O’Ree, the player who broke the NHL’s colour barrier, yields a wider and richer look at race and sports in Laurence Mathieu-Leger’s Willie.
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Message in the Music
Music plays a central role in new films Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, Tokyo Idols and Resurrecting Hassan.
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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘The Corporation’
The Corporation has no shortage of examples of modern capitalism at its most morally reprehensible.
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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘If You Love This Planet’
Terre Nash’s Oscar-winner was deemed ‘foreign political propaganda’ by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam’
Beryl Fox’s The Mills of the Gods was the first Vietnam documentary of its kind.
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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘North of Superior’
Understanding the value of a first impression, Graeme Ferguson ensured that IMAX made a doozy of one with North of Superior.
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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Picture of Light’
Peter Mettler films the essentially unfilmable phenomenon of the northern lights.
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Hot Docs 2015: Eco Docs
The Messenger, Hadwin’s Judgement, Fractured Land, and Haida Gwaii are new films that deal with ecological concerns.
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Singing the praises of the unsung
How filmmakers’ growing urge to celebrate the also-rans and should’ve-beens of the music world fuels passion projects and Oscar winners alike
