POV Magazine

Now Streaming: Unspoken Tears Observes the Healing Process for Young Refugees

Features

Unspoken Tears is a documentary from the NFB that observes as young refugees in Canada undergo the healing process following trauma.
Hot Docs’ CrossCurrents Funds Support Four Documentaries

Hot Docs/Industry

Hot Docs Currents Funds support documentary projects My Missing Aunt, Redlight to Limelight, The Old Wound, and In Zainab’s Heaven.
The Perfect Story Review: Or, When the Story Changes

Reviews

Journalist and filmmaker Michelle Shephard revisits the tale of her 2010 subject Ismael Abdulle and finds a new and unexpected angle with The Perfect Story.
35 Projects Supported through Sundance Institute Documentary Fund

Industry/Sundance

35 projects will receive funding from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund upon the 20th anniversary of the Documentary Film Program.
POV Presents Geographies of Solitude at Planet in Focus: Win Tickets!

Festivals

Jacquelyn Mills' award winner Geographies of Solitude screens at Planet in Focus on Oct. 16.

Now Streaming: Unspoken Tears Observes the Healing Process for Young Refugees

Unspoken Tears is a documentary from the NFB that observes as young refugees in Canada undergo the healing process following trauma.
Hot Docs’ CrossCurrents Funds Support Four Documentaries

Hot Docs Currents Funds support documentary projects My Missing Aunt, Redlight to Limelight, The Old Wound, and In Zainab’s Heaven.
The Perfect Story Review: Or, When the Story Changes

Journalist and filmmaker Michelle Shephard revisits the tale of her 2010 subject Ismael Abdulle and finds a new and unexpected angle with The Perfect Story.
35 Projects Supported through Sundance Institute Documentary Fund

35 projects will receive funding from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund upon the 20th anniversary of the Documentary Film Program.
POV Presents Geographies of Solitude at Planet in Focus: Win Tickets!

Jacquelyn Mills' award winner Geographies of Solitude screens at Planet in Focus on Oct. 16.

Reviews

Jihad Rehab Review: A Question of Ethics

Jihad Rehab boasts impressive access with interviews with men at a de-radicalization centre, but has a flawed methodology.

Moonage Daydream Review: David Bowie Doc A Burst of Sound and Light

by Jason Gorber

Brett Morgen's portrait of David Bowie, Moonage Daydream is a stellar music doc that embodies the constellation of the rocker's legacy.

Eternal Spring Review: Animating an Awakening

by Pat Mullen

Eternal Spring is an animated documentary in which Chinese artist Daxiong revisits his participation in a 2002 hijacking of a TV station.

Director Kat Jayme in *The Grizzlie Truth*

Kat Jayme’s Grizzlie Truth

by Rachel Ho

Published on October 3, 2022

Features

Kat Jaymes' The Grizzlie Truth is a documentary from the heart that seeks closures for the fans of Vancouver's short-lived NBA team.

A still from *Jihad Rehab* by Meg Smaker, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jack Shurman.

Pointed View: The Jihad Rehab “Controversy” Reminds Us to Question Everything

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 30, 2022

Features

A response to the New York Times story on Jihad Rehab, censorship, and ethics in documentary filmmaking and programming.

Five Docs for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 30, 2022

Features

Documentary recommendations for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation include Returning Home, For Love, and Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair.

Barbara Kopple's *Gumbo Coalition* to premiere at DOC NYC | Photo courtesy of DOC NYC

New Films from Kopple, Porter, Pozdorovkin Set for DOC NYC

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 29, 2022

Festivals

DOC NYC announces the world premieres of new films from Barbara Kopple, Dawn Porter, and Maxim Pozdorovkin, while Maya and the Wave will open the fest.

Ernie Coombs and Fred Rogers | CBC Still Photo Collection/Robert Ragsdale

Mr. Dressup Set to Receive Documentary Treatment

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 29, 2022

Industry

Mr. Dressup documentary announced as Prime Video begins production on a new film about the beloved Canadian children's TV icon.

back home Review

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 29, 2022October 5, 2022

Festivals/Reviews

Vancouver director Nisha Platzer offers a personal examination of loss and love in back home by looking back at the death of her brother.

Dear Mama Review: Of Mothers and Sons

by Barbara Goslawski

Published on September 28, 2022

Reviews/TIFF

In Dear Mama, Allen Hughes deftly explores the life of rapper Tupac Shakur and his mother Afeni, a civil rights activist and Black Panther member.

Disneyland employees protest low wages in Abigail E. Disney & Kathleen Hughes’ documentary, *The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.* | Courtesy Fork Films

Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes on the American Dream and Corporate Greed

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 26, 2022September 28, 2022

Interviews

An interview with The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales directors Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes on tackling workers' rights and corporate greed through a look back at the Magic Kingdom then and now.

Team Canada celebrating series victory after Paul Hendrson Goal in Moscow during Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series | Courtesy Hockey Hall of Fame and Summit 72 Productions

Did the 1972 Hockey Summit Define Us?

by Susan G. Cole

Published on September 26, 2022

Essays

Summit 72 and Ice-Breaker are two new documentaries that revisit the 1972 Canada-Soviet Union hockey games that gripped the nation.

*Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children* | White Pine Pictures

DGC Award Nominations for Documentary

by Pat Mullen

Published on September 25, 2022

Industry

Barri Cohen's Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children and Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux's Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew lead the DGC documentary nominations.