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Allegra Moyle

Allegra Moyle is a Montreal-based writer and journalist with experience in both print and audio storytelling. Her work has been featured in POV, CBC Montreal, CBC Radio and more. She also has a background in film and cultural programming.

March 21, 2024
Features

Kat Jayme: Born to Film

Filmmaker Kat Jayme looks back on the stories from her life that inspired her and the steps she took to advance her documentary career.

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Paul Preciado Transforms the Biopic Anew with Orlando, My Political Biography

An interview with Orlando, My Political Biography director Paul B. Preciado about transforming biography and Virginia Woolf by centering trans stories.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Review: No Economy for Subtlety

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Resources Review: Migrants and the Meat Market

Directors Hubert Caron-Guay and Serge-Olivier Rondeau capture life in limbo with portraits

Kat Jayme: Born to Film

by Allegra Moyle
March 21, 2024
Features

Filmmaker Kat Jayme looks back on the stories from her life that inspired her and the steps she took to advance her documentary career.

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Paul Preciado Transforms the Biopic Anew with Orlando, My Political Biography

by Allegra Moyle
November 24, 2023
Interviews

An interview with Orlando, My Political Biography director Paul B. Preciado about transforming biography and Virginia Woolf by centering trans stories.

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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Review: No Economy for Subtlety

by Allegra Moyle
September 13, 2023
Reviews/TIFF

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World tackles the exploitation of labour, the free market economy, racism, sexism, and other topics.

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Resources Review: Migrants and the Meat Market

by Allegra Moyle
February 3, 2023
Reviews

Directors Hubert Caron-Guay and Serge-Olivier Rondeau capture life in limbo with portraits of migrants in a slaughterhouse in Resources

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A Bunch of Amateurs Review: A Cine-Love Letter to Movies

by Allegra Moyle
January 27, 2023
Reviews

A Bunch of Amateurs is a fun portrait of the current members of the Bradford Movie Makers, one of England’s oldest filmmaking societies.

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J’ai placé ma mère Review: Love as Lifeblood

by Allegra Moyle
November 24, 2022
Reviews/RIDM

In J'ai placé ma mère, Denys Desjardins documents his mother's experience with the negligence to which Quebec's healthcare system subjects the elderly.

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Foragers Review: Natural Resistance in Palestine

by Allegra Moyle
November 21, 2022
Reviews/RIDM

Jumana Manna depicts the politics of extinction and occupation in this hybrid film about foragers and their fight to harvest wild herbs.

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A Shared Vision

by Allegra Moyle
June 27, 2022
Essays

Documenting disability while disabled: how films like Crip Camp, Vision Portraits, Blue, and Shameless reframe perspective and agency.

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Bend or Break

by Allegra Moyle
September 1, 2021
Features/Interviews

In the short documentary Bend or Break, Mitchell Martow recounts his experience with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and the journey to diagnosis, to directors Karan Sharma and Sidhant Sharma. The short doc is the

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Last Man Standing Review: Broomfield Revisits the Murders of Biggie and Tupac

by Allegra Moyle
August 22, 2021
Reviews

In The Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac, Nick Broomfield returns to a case that continues to haunt him and makes new allegations against Knight and

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