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Keep ReadingCelebrating the 20th anniversary of IDFA, the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, with a POV parlour game.
Keep ReadingIs Michael Moore a raving propagandist or a left-wing saviour? Filmmakers Peter Wintonick (Manufacturing Consent) and Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk (Manufacturing Dissent) offer their takes.
Keep ReadingA prime example of ‘docu-cratic’ media making is HomelessNation.org, an interactive documentary engaging several thousand homeless voices across Canada.
Keep ReadingDocumentarians love to make earnest, socially engaged films about serious issues like the environment, but how is filmmaking sustainable?
Keep ReadingWhen Bensimon was appointed NFB Film Commissioner, he embarked on an ambitions five-year plan. Who well did he do? A conversation with Bensimon and Tom Perlmutter.
Keep ReadingShort notes delivered by Canadian documentary filmmaker Peter Wintonick on the occasion of receiving the Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts, given in the presence of their Excellencies The Right
Keep ReadingOn a warm New York night in the early ’90s, I was walking to a party hosted by the Independent Feature Project on lower Broadway, when I came across two very animated, brightly dressed,
Keep ReadingARISE, ARISE, O ye great-grandchildren of Grierson, Brittain, and Perrault. THE DOCUMENTARY, the only original Canadian art form that means anything to the rest of the world, is in peril. We’re on
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