Toronto’s acclaimed documentary festival Hot Docs is back and we’re still attending it virtually. As Gershwin once put it, “How long has this been going on?” Well over a year and counting,
Keep ReadingThis year’s insanely long awards season is finally over. For the documentary crowd, the Oscar race basically begins at Sundance a full year before the show. This year, however, the pandemic means
Keep ReadingThe 2021 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival ran online with docs including War and Peace, Her Mothers, and City Hall.
Keep ReadingSu Rynard’s Duet for Solo Piano observes the brilliant Toronto pianist Eve Egoyan.
Keep ReadingInspired by the brilliant 2007 book The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Boy with Autism by then-teenaged Japanese Naoki Higashida, Jerry Rothwell’s equally wonderful film goes about
Keep ReadingWinner of the Sundance World Cinema special jury Prize for Cinematography, Acasa, My Home brilliantly plays up the contrasts between living in urban and rural environments.
Keep ReadingOn November 25, 2020, POV mailed its latest issue, #113 (Fall/Winter 2020) to subscribers. This issue featured the cover story on the documentary Inconvenient Indian and its director, Michelle Latimer. This article
Keep ReadingWhat is the future like for Canadian documentary producers? POV discusses the state of Canadian documentary with two producers, Peter Raymont and Andreas Mendritzki.
Keep ReadingThe best documentaries of 2020 include Boys State, The Viewing Booth, Collective, Pahokee, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, 76 Days, The Truffle Hunters, and Wintopia.
Keep ReadingA documentary available on YouTube entitled The Mangrove Nine, directed by notable radical Franco Rosso and scripted by the first major Black publisher John LaRose, makes fascinating viewing after seeing McQueen’s film.
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