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October 28, 2015
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Documentary as Feminist Art Form; or, Let’s All Move to Sweden

What can Sweden's commitment to 50/50 parity teach the North American industry?

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REVIEW: Gayby Baby

Gayby Baby centres on the lives and learning curves of four children in Australia of same-sex parents.

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REVIEW: Over the Rainbow

Over The Rainbow is a heartwarming, it’s-never-too-late, portrait of Leny, a Dutch

Documentary as Feminist Art Form; or, Let’s All Move to Sweden

by Noelle Elia
October 28, 2015
Industry

What can Sweden's commitment to 50/50 parity teach the North American industry?

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REVIEW: Gayby Baby

by Noelle Elia
May 7, 2015
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Gayby Baby centres on the lives and learning curves of four children in Australia of same-sex parents.

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REVIEW: The Cult of JT LeRoy

by Noelle Elia
May 7, 2015
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The Cult of JT LeRoy holds up a cracked mirror, probing into the complex cultural, psychological, and socially-reinforced motivations for pulling off, and buying into, such a scam

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REVIEW: Over the Rainbow

by Noelle Elia
April 30, 2015
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Over The Rainbow is a heartwarming, it’s-never-too-late, portrait of Leny, a Dutch woman who discovered her sexual identity at 68.

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REVIEW: Exotica, Erotica, Etc.

by Noelle Elia
April 30, 2015
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Erotica, Exotica, Etc. is an expressionistic meditation on the sea, the men who work it, and the women who love those men.

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REVIEW: From This Day Forward

by Noelle Elia
April 30, 2015
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From This Day Forward succeeds as a contemporary telling of self-acceptance, unpacking family resentments, and enduring spousal love.

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Bonnie Sherr Klein: Two Perspectives

by Janis Cole Noelle Elia
April 2, 2007
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After a long hiatus from filmmaking, Not A Love Story's Bonnie Sherr Klein returns with a doc on disability, love and survival.

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Social change the Nuit Blanche way

by Noelle Elia
February 1, 2007
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Nuit Blanche turned out to be more avant-garde than a new façade or exhibition space could hope to be because it was a gift of interconnectedness, a kind of “positive emotional activism.”

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Verité, Sunnyside and Beyond

by Noelle Elia
April 1, 2006
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From the Lumière Brothers, Georges Méliès, the Nouvelle Vague and cinéma verité, where would documentary be without France?

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The Rebellious Heart of Kim Longinotto

by Noelle Elia
November 1, 2005
Features

Profiling British documentarian Kim Longinotto whose work champions women and children fighting oppression and discrimination. Sisters in Law is her latest offering.

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