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DOXA Documentary Festival runs April 30 to May 10

Nicholas Gergesha

REVIEW: Love Me

by Nicholas Gergesha
May 1, 2014January 10, 2022
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Love Me follows a host of characters who, for one reason or another, decide to look online and travel overseas to Ukraine to find love.

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REVIEW: Ukraine is Not a Brothel

by Nicholas Gergesha
May 1, 2014February 12, 2022
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Ukraine Is Not a Brothel hinges on a third act twist that is absolutely fascinating, and ultimately throws into question all we understand about FEMEN.

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REVIEW: Velvet Terrorists

by Nicholas Gergesha
April 30, 2014May 20, 2022
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Velvet Terrorists offers fascinating character studies three rebels, who fought the old Communist regime in Czechoslovakia and lived to tell their tales.

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Focus on Education 2013-14: Report from Ontario & Manitoba

by Nicholas Gergesha
February 19, 2014May 18, 2022
Features

A lot can change in the span of a decade. During this time film studies at the University of Toronto has progressed from a college-controlled programme into an independent Cinema Studies Institute.

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Hot Docs 2013: Oil Sands Karaoke

by Nicholas Gergesha
April 23, 2013February 27, 2022
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Oil Sands Karaoke offers a humanizing look at a town that has experienced unprecedented growth due to the environmentally dangerous oil industry.

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Hot Docs 2013: Occupy – The Movie

by Nicholas Gergesha
April 23, 2013February 27, 2022
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Occupy: The Movie is a kind of balancing act, and time will tell if its large scope elicits the same impassioned responses Occupy: The Movement did.

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Canadian Film School Survey 2012: Report from Ontario and Manitoba

by Nicholas Gergesha
November 20, 2012May 18, 2022
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POV's 2012 Focus on Education survey looks at Ryerson, York, University of Winnipeg, Carleton, and Innis College at the University of Toronto.

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In Review: Shoot It!

by Nicholas Gergesha
April 2, 2012June 5, 2022
Reviews

Shoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film by film journalist David Spaner, ambitiously explores international indie movements from the 1940s onward.

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