Articles – Profiles
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Agnès Varda: Emotion Pictures
Reflections on the career of the late, great Agnès Varda with a guide to 12 essential films—plus a few extra!
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Remembering John Kastner
Reflections on John Kastner, director of Life with Murder and Out of Mind, Out of Sight.
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Nazli Dinçel: artist and filmmaker
A conversation with Nazli Dinçel at her recent Vertical Features screening in Toronto.
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Mira Nair: Queen of Social Realism
Director Mira Nair reflects on her career and her roots in documentary.
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Searching for Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta discusses her new film Searching for Ingmar Bergman.
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Anthropocene’s Three Filmmakers and Ecological Disaster
A talk with Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nick de Pencier.
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Has Everything Changed?
A filmmaker reflects on Jane’s place in the industry after seeing This Changes Everything.
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Who is Astra Taylor?
Profiling the director the NFB doc What is Democracy?.
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Liz Garbus and Trying to Print All the News that Fits
Liz Garbus discusses her doc The Fourth Estate and shooting in The New York Times in the age of Trump.
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Ain’t that America: The Films of Barbara Kopple
An appreciation of Hot Docs’ Outstanding Achievement Retrospective focus, Barbara Kopple.