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TIFF 2013: More Documentary Peaks

by James Buffin
August 12, 2014February 17, 2026
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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@ricbienstock and @barri.cohen talk at lengths about taking risks, getting the hard stories, and making an impact. Read their conversation from issue 123, now online!

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Congrats to @theartofadventuredoc for leading the Congrats to @theartofadventuredoc for leading the audience vote at @yukonfilmsociety's Available Light From Festival! 🗳

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What happens when Everest gets angry? 🏔 #EverestD What happens when Everest gets angry? 🏔

#EverestDark follows veteran climber Mingma Sherpa as he makes another ascent to recover bodies of fallen climbers and put the mountain's soul at ease. 

📽: select theatres beginning Mar. 2
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Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weeken Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weekend! 🏆

This year's nominees are:
🫏 perfectly a strangeness
🩺 The Devil Is Busy
📷 All the Empty Rooms
🪧 Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
📹 Armed With Only a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

🔗: link to review in bio

📽: TIFF; But also streaming! All the Empty Rooms is on Netflix and Seemed with Only a Camera, The Devil Is Busy, and perfectly a strangeness are in Crave. 

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How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard him before?

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert film editor and executive producer Jonathan Redmon tells us about re-mastering the King himself. 🤴 

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📽: in theatres Feb. 20

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Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary open Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary opening wide, and it's #EPiC!

Don't miss EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Baz Luhrmann's maximalist music doc that had TIFFgoers dancing in the theatre. 

📽: IMAX theatres Feb. 20; regular cinemas next week. 
🔗: in bio

#Elvis #elvispresley #Documentary #bazluhrmann
RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true master RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true masters. 🕯

In films like Titicut Follies,  National Gallery, In Jackson Heights, and Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, his observational eye and appreciation for institutional intricacies (and how to critique them) inspired us to savour every second of a film.  May #Wisemanesque films stand the test of time! 

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First they came for the books. 📚 Festival favouri First they came for the books. 📚

Festival favourite #AnAmericanPastoral observes a snapshot of the culture wars and radicalized politics. Now streaming!

🔗: in bio
📽: Apple

#film #documentary #movies #moviereview
Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line betwe Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line between mockumentary, Jackass, and WTF, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is a truly Canadian original. 

🔗: in bio
📽: now in theatres

#nirvanna #movies #moviereview #film #mockumentary
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