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How The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs Crafts a Portrait of Resistance

Features/Interviews/TIFF

The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs directors Matteo Norzi and Èlia Gasull share how they capture the art and philosophy of Sara Flores.
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Rebeca Huntt Gets Out of Her Own Head with TIFF Doc Rapinoe

Features/Interviews/TIFF

Rapinoe director Rebeca Huntt discusses capturing the portrait of soccer star Megan Rapinoe and her fight for equity in women's sports.
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How The Stunt Driver Reimagines an NFB Ken Carter Documentary

Interviews/TIFF

An interview with The Stunt Driver director Michael Dowse on adapting the wild Ken Carter documentary The Devil at Your Heels into a drama.
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How The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs Crafts a Portrait of Resistance

The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs directors Matteo Norzi and Èlia Gasull share how they capture the art and philosophy of Sara Flores.
Rebeca Huntt Gets Out of Her Own Head with TIFF Doc Rapinoe

Rapinoe director Rebeca Huntt discusses capturing the portrait of soccer star Megan Rapinoe and her fight for equity in women's sports.
How The Stunt Driver Reimagines an NFB Ken Carter Documentary

An interview with The Stunt Driver director Michael Dowse on adapting the wild Ken Carter documentary The Devil at Your Heels into a drama.
To Hold a Mountain Set to Open RIDM 2026

RIDM announces To Hold a Mountain and Ba's Book as the opening night and closing night selections, respectively, for this year's festival.
National Film Board of Canada Slates 16 Projects

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) announces production support for 16 projects spanning documentaries, shorts, and animated films.

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An archival photo of the cast of the Toronto 1972 production of Godspell on the stage.

You Had to Be There Review: Toronto’s Godspell Lore Brings the Laughs

The rollicking documentary You Had to Be There revisits the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell with Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and other funny folks.

Five Girl Scouts in uniform face their leader, who has her back to the camera.

Cookie Queens Review: This Doc Never Crumbles

by Jason Gorber

Selling Girl Scout cookies proves a time-honoured tradition, but one with many complexities in the satisfying Cookie Queens.

Sitting (left to right): Thomas Harvey, William Patterson, John Henrik Clarke, Mrs. J.B Matthews, Louise Patterson. Standing (left to right): Ernest Chrichlow, Romare Bearden, Ida Mae Cullen. Photo taken in 1972. Credit: Bruce Stanford. Courtesy: William Greaves Productions

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Review: Greaves’ Long-Awaited Documentary Renaissance

by Jason Gorber

William Greaves' long-awaited Once Upon a Time in Harlem gathers luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance for an in-depth conversation about Black life, art, and culture.

A young woman sits at the foreground of the frame looking off to the left. Her mother is behind her, sitting on a white horse. The rolling pasturelands are in the background. — Photo by Eva Kraljeviċ, courtesy of the Sundance Institute

To Hold a Mountain Set to Open RIDM 2026

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 3, 2026

News/RIDM

RIDM announces To Hold a Mountain and Ba's Book as the opening night and closing night selections, respectively, for this year's festival.

A team of six Indigenous filmmakers stands together in front of several white teepees. The sky behind them is blue with some clouds tinted pink by the sunset. — Sinakson Trevor Solway (3rd from left) and his documentary crew on the set of the NFB production *Prairie Chicken* at the Tsuu’tina Powwow | Ryan No Runner

National Film Board of Canada Slates 16 Projects

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 3, 2026

News

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) announces production support for 16 projects spanning documentaries, shorts, and animated films.

Diana Sanchez, pictured on the left, is a Latina-Canadian wearing a black blazer and blue suit. She is facing the camera, positioned to her side, and has her left hand raised slightly above her chest. Mara Gourd-Mercado, pictured on the right, is a Latina-Canadian woman pictured in close up. She is wearing a white collared short and is looking directly into the camera. — L-R: Diana Sanchez (Photo by Dewey Chang), Mara Gourd-Mercado (Photo by Oliver Harding)

Hot Docs Boosts Diana Sanchez to President, Mara Gourd-Mercado Joins as E.D.

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 2, 2026

Hot Docs/News

Hot Docs announces that Diana Sanchez will assume a new role as president while Mara Gourd-Mercado joins the organization as executive director.

A cover of an old magazine displays a black and white image with the title 'Impressions' written in white text with a line underneath. — Courtesy of Sara Knelman

Revisiting Impressions

by Sara Knelman

Published on August 31, 2026

Essays/Photography

Revisiting Impressions, the Canadian photography magazine that was founded in 1970 and ran 30 issues of eclectic images and idiosyncratic layouts.

A man crouches down on a rocky shore in Newfoundland, looking at a TV that is positioned on the ground by the water. There is a strange image on the screen with a figure in a dark purple hood and an orange light where his face should be. — AIFF

Captain Newfoundland Explores the Lost Portal to Atlantis in New Clip from the Documentary

by Pat Mullen

Published on August 28, 2026

News

Watch a clip from Captain Newfoundland ahead of the documentary's premiere at the Atlantic International Film Festival on Sept. 17.

A Filipina woman with black glasses wmbraces her white partner. They are pictured in close-up. — First Comes Love | VIFF

VIFF Announces Massive Documentary Line-up for 2026 Festival

by Pat Mullen

Published on August 27, 2026

Festivals/News

Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) announces over 50 documentaries among the line-up for its 2026 edition.

Boorman and the Devil Is a Moving Tale from the Dark Side

by Matthew Hays

Published on August 25, 2026

Interviews

An interview with Boorman and the Devil director David Kittredge about exploring the unexpected upside of the notorious Exorcist sequel.

Thomas Harvey, Ernest Crichlow, William Patterson, Romare Bearden, John Henrick Clarke, Ida Mae Cullen and Louise Patterson appear in Once Upon a Time in Harlem | William Greaves Productions. Courtesy of Sundance Institute — Thomas Harvey, Ernest Crichlow, William Patterson, Romare Bearden, John Henrick Clarke, Ida Mae Cullen and Louise Patterson appear in *Once Upon a Time in Harlem* | William Greaves Productions. Courtesy of Sundance Institute

How Once Upon a Time in Harlem Brings Archive into the Present

by Jason Gorber

Published on August 24, 2026

Features/Interviews

An interview with David Greaves and Liani Greaves about Once Upon a Time in Harlem and bringing their father William's final work to the screen.

DOC Institute Launches DOC Executive Accelerator Lab

by Pat Mullen

Published on August 21, 2026

News

DOC Institute launches the DOC Executive Accelerator Lab to boost the careers of the next generation of doc executives with Rama Rau as first mentor.

A fuzzy TV image in blue and orange negative shows Brian Mulroney giving an interview. — *Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney* | NFB

RIDM Announces First Titles for 2026 Festival

by Pat Mullen

Published on August 20, 2026

News/RIDM

RIDM, the Montreal International Documentary Festival, announces the first five titles for its 2026 edition including Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney and Gabin.