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Feminism Motivates the Doc Mogul: Debra Zimmerman

by Janis Cole
May 9, 2013February 20, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Debra Zimmerman has taken the feminist non-profit Women Make Movies from grassroots production facility to the world’s largest distribution outlet of films by and about women.

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Hot Docs 2013: Last Woman Standing

by Janis Cole
April 23, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Juliet Lammers and Lorraine Price took cameras on the road to create Last Woman Standing, the historic story of Canada’s two top-ranked female boxers.

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Hot Docs 2013: Tales From the Organ Trade

by Janis Cole
April 23, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

In Tales From the Organ Trade, Ric Bienstock reinforces her hard-earned reputation for slipping a camera into impossible places.

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Hot Docs 2013: Chi

by Janis Cole
April 23, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

In Chi, Anne Wheeler documents the ups and downs of the cancer treatments that Babz Chula finds excruciating but accepts with hope.

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Hot Docs 2013: Buying Sex

by Janis Cole
April 23, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Buying Sex introduces a Canadian legal case being tried to remove prohibitions on communicating for the purposes of prostitution in public

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Surveying Sex for Sale

by Janis Cole
November 13, 2012March 19, 2022
Hot Docs

The world’s oldest profession gets a perspicacious spin in a handful of judicious films at Hot Docs 2012.

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Saving Face – and Humanity – One Documentary at a Time

by Janis Cole
April 2, 2012March 19, 2022
Features

Pakistani-Canadian Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s personal story and philosophy on her road to making Saving Face.

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Focus on Alan Zweig

by Janis Cole
April 1, 2011April 11, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

With four successful films in 10 years, and a recent marriage and a baby, Alan Zweig is cautiously happy, but admits it wasn’t always so.

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Murder In the Family

by Janis Cole
April 1, 2010February 7, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

In the Name of the Family and Life with Murder are tragic and terrifying films by John Kastner and Shelley Saywell.

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A Finer Education

by Janis Cole
February 1, 2010May 20, 2022
Features

Ryerson University's Documentary Media programme will undoubtedly continue to strengthen as more students pass through it.

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