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TIFF 2013: More Documentary Peaks

by James Buffin
August 12, 2014February 6, 2022
TIFF

Highlights from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival include Finding Vivian Maier and At Berkeley.

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Pointed View: Still King of the Hill?

by James Buffin
January 7, 2014February 12, 2022
Industry

Just because the long-form documentary is the king of the hill now, doesn’t mean we can take it for granted.

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Hot Docs 2013: The Manor

by James Buffin
April 22, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

On the surface, nothing much seems to happen in Shawney Cohen's The Manor, Hot Docs 2013’s opening night film. And yet at the same time it does.

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A Calm Revolution?

by James Buffin
April 18, 2013February 21, 2022
Features

The core message of Rob Stewart's Sharkwater follow-up, Revolution, is this: Humanity is at the crossroads.

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TIFF Diary 2012

by James Buffin
April 18, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/TIFF

Highlights from the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival include The Act of Killing, The Central Park Five, and Mea Maxima Culpa.

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Hot Docs 2012: Relating to films and filmmakers

by James Buffin Maurie Alioff
November 13, 2012March 19, 2022
Hot Docs

One of the great pleasures of being at festivals is the opportunity to meet filmmakers. They can teach and inspire you.

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Twice in a Lifetime: TIFF 2011

by James Buffin
February 1, 2012April 9, 2022
Features/TIFF

Highlights of TIFF 2011 include docs by Jonathan Demme, Wim Wenders, Davis Guggenheim, Werner Herzog, Ron Fricke, Frederick Wiseman and Cameron Crowe.

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Position Among the Cameras

by James Buffin
September 2, 2011April 11, 2022
Features

On filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich and his documentaries Position of the Stars, Eye of the Day, and The Shape of the Moon.

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Larger Than Life: TIFF 2010

by James Buffin
November 1, 2010April 17, 2022
TIFF

Highlights from the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) include Frederick Wiseman, Morgan Spurlock, Davis Guggenheim, and Kim Longinotto.

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What the G-20?

by James Buffin
September 1, 2010April 18, 2022
Features

Filming in the streets of Toronto during the recent G-8/G-20 Summit was a very strange and unsettling experience.

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Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a  Hollywood remake. Kate Hudson and director Craig Brewer tell us about reimagining the doc as a movie musical!

🔗: in bio
📽: in theatres Dec. 25
📽: rent the doc on Vimeo

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How have documentaries captured political divides How have documentaries captured political divides since Oct. 7? @dimwig surveys the field of films about Palestine and Israel.

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📽: Coexistence, My Ass! (Now on TVO)

#Documentary #film #politics #coexistencemyass #nootherland
Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these days, so what does it mean for the field?

@_rachelkh looks at films about Pee-Wee Herman, Pamela Anderson, and Elvis Presley to consider some dos and don'ts of the celebrity doc.

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Oscar shortlists! 🥁🥁🥁 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM “ Oscar shortlists! 🥁🥁🥁

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

“The Alabama Solution”
“Apocalypse in the Tropics”
“Coexistence, My Ass!”
“Come See Me in the Good Light”
“Cover-Up”
“Cutting through Rocks”
“Folktales”
“Holding Liat”
“Mr. Nobody against Putin”
“Mistress Dispeller”
“My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow”
“The Perfect Neighbor”
“Seeds”
“2000 Meters to Andriivka”
“Yanuni” 

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

“All the Empty Rooms”
“All the Walls Came Down”
“Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud”
“Bad Hostage”
“Cashing Out”
“Chasing Time”
“Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”” 
“Classroom 4”
“The Devil Is Busy”
“Heartbeat”
“Last Days on Lake Trinity”
“On Healing Land, Birds Perch”
“Perfectly a Strangeness”
“Rovina’s Choice”
“We Were the Scenery”

Congrats to all the shortlisted docs! 
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#awardseason #film #movies
In theatres this weekend, @cuttingthroughrocks_fil In theatres this weekend, @cuttingthroughrocks_film finds a true hero in politician Sara Shahverdi. 💪

📽: @tiff_net 
🔗: in bio
📝: @bgos923 

#CuttingThroughRocks #documentary #film #moviereview
And we have Sundance docs! 📷: Nuisance Bear 🔗: And we have Sundance docs!

📷: Nuisance Bear 

🔗: in bio

#Sundance #Sundance26 #documentary #movies #film
How did they create the magic of #TheTaleOfSilyan? How did they create the magic of #TheTaleOfSilyan? 🦢

Learn more in our interview with director Tamara Kotevska and cinematographer Jean Dakar. Our writers can it one of the best films of 2025!

🔗: in bio. 
📽: now in theatres!

#Documentary #filmmaking #birds #film #movies
POV Wrapped! A salute to the best documentaries of POV Wrapped! A salute to the best documentaries of 2025. 🥳

This year, @marc.glassman.1 and @mullenpat offer a combined top ten list, plus honourable mentions. 

Read the full story at POV! (Link in bio.)

What are your top docs of 2025?
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Tasha Hubbard and Michael Greyeyes tell us about a Tasha Hubbard and Michael Greyeyes tell us about adapting #BirthofAFamily into #Meadowlarks. What Cdn doc deserves a dramatic treatment next?

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📽: Meadowlarks now in theatres. Stream Birth of a Family at @onf_nfb. 

#Documentary #film #cdnfilm #movies #interviews #indigenous
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