Not all of TIFF’s docs end up in TIFF Docs. In recent years, many of the festival’s most interesting documentaries have been screened in the avant-garde program, Wavelengths. This year is no different: with
Keep ReadingTIFF Docs 2017 class includes new films by Fred Wiseman, Brett Morgen, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, Chris Smith, Sophie Fiennes, and more!
Keep ReadingThom Powers is the veteran curator of TIFF Docs. At TIFF, he has programmed premieres for such filmmakers as Morgan Spurlock, Jonathan Demme, Werner Herzog and Kevin Rafferty. He runs the annual Doc Conference
Keep ReadingWith Uninterrupted, Nettie Wild has taken up the challenge of being primarily—at least for this piece—a visual artist, without losing her doc roots.
Keep ReadingThe B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (USA, 76 min.) Dir. Errol Morris Starring: Elsa Dorfman, Allen Ginsberg Errol Morris has won great acclaim for his documentaries on powerful, conflicted men like
Keep ReadingRead part 1 of the POV interview with Thierry Garrel here. Thierry Garrel has had an enormous influence on the making of point-of-view aesthetic documentaries over more than four decades. Working first with INA [Institut
Keep ReadingIt’s the Canadian sesquicentennial, a time when this country can engage in celebrations, critiques and a vast array of looks at what has happened here over the past 150 years. CBC must
Keep ReadingRisk (USA/Germany, 92 min.) Dir. Laura Poitras Featuring: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum, Jennifer Robinson, Edward Snowden Communications, security systems and global politics have shifted dramatically since Julian Assange started
Keep ReadingThierry Garrel, a French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, joined the Research Department of French Television (ORTF) at the age of twenty and went on to become the Head of the
Keep ReadingThe subject of the 2017 Hot Docs Focus On retrospective, Maya Gallus is a sophisticated, innovative feminist filmmaker. Since her sensational debut feature Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels premiered at TIFF (then called the Festival
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