Articles – Features
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We Can Speak for Us
Black Canadian history and taking hold of the narrative as seen through documentary films.
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Saskatchewan: A Cooperative past and future
The next stop in POV‘s coast to coast road trip of Canadian doc history looks at Saskatchewan’s contribution to the art form.
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Manitoba: Resilience on the Prairies
POV’s cross-Canada doc road trip continues with a stop in Manitoba to survey the province’s rich history from James Free to the Winnipeg Film Group and Guy Maddin.
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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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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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A Walk in the Forests
Super Channel’s financial dilemma affects Canadian documentary’s fragile ecosystem. Nikkel considers the situation through the lens of Jeff McKay’s Call of the Forest.
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YouTube Censorship: An Orwellian Digital Nightmare
Documentarians beware–You Tube is not what it used to be.
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Quebec: its contribution to the documentary form
The second stop on POV’s coast to coast road trip explores the documentary history of Quebec.
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Our Complicated Romance with the North
Canada’s mythological “idea of the North” meets documentary reality in this essay on the North from Nanook to Angry Inuk.
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Real Queer
Hookers on Davie, The Devil’s Toy, No Sad Songs and Passiflora are four landmark LGBTQ docs in Canadian film history.