Millefiore “Millie” Clarkes and Anne Pick are the winners of this year’s DOC Institute Honours. The filmmakers received the BMO-DOC Vanguard Award and the Rogers-DOC Luminary Award, respectively.
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Academy Award winner discusses her documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator about hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, whose downfall preceded the #MeToo movement and is a tale of a bad guy who got
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Keep ReadingThey Call Us Warriors (Nos chamam guerreiras) (Venezuela, 83 min.) Dir. Edwin Corona Ramos, David Alonso, Jennifer Socorro Post-script title cards sometimes cheapen the story that precedes then. They can be mawkish, on
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Keep ReadingLove Boat: Taiwan (Taiwan/USA, 60 min.) Dir. Valerie Soe In 1967, the government of Taiwan created a particularly interesting program to bring second-generation Chinese and Taiwanese young people from around the world
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DOC NYC artistic director Thom Powers discusses the festival's growth to become one of the world's premiere documentary festivals in merely ten years thanks to its tight curation, industry elements, and coveted
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“The reason people are dying is because they’re using bad street drugs. Fentanyl on the street is very dangerous. If the supply is regulated and there is the ability for people to
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