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Deep dives that explore the world through the lens of documentary.

Francis Holmes – Prairie Filmmaker

by Brock Silversides
February 23, 2017
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For most of the 20th century, film production on the Canadian prairies was small, and the vast majority of homegrown work was in educational, industrial, wildlife, promotional, and sponsored films. One who

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Performing Documentary

by Pat Mullen
November 7, 2016
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Hybrid films Aim for the Roses, Nuts!, and London Road pull back the curtain between fiction and non-fiction while making sense of a world of quack politicians and fake news.

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An Open Letter to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly

by Kevin McMahon
September 12, 2016
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Kevin McMahon delivers a massive plea from the heart for Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to take a stand for Canadian documentary filmmakers.

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Reality Laughs: Looking for Comedy in the Documentary World

by Liam Lacey
August 30, 2016
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Humour is the spice of life, but documentary films, which aim to reflect life, often leave this key ingredient out of the recipe.

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The Sight and Sound of Music Docs

by Maurie Alioff
August 17, 2016
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Why are they so hot? From Contemporary Color to I Am the Blues to Hip-Hop Evolution, audiences can’t get enough of them.

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Orly

by Mike Hoolboom Chase Joynt
July 13, 2016
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“He didn’t live a double life. He lived twice.” - An appreciation of Chris Marker's influential classic La jetée

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Pause. Rewind. Fast-Forward: Documenting Movies

by Pat Mullen
July 7, 2016
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The Slippers, How to Build a Time Machine and Random Acts of Legacy celebrate and explore the implications of earlier movies.

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Why Are the Inuit So Angry?

by Judy Wolfe
July 6, 2016
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More than three decades passed before an Inuk was able to make a feature film that showed a native perspective on the seal hunt. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s documentary Angry Inuk is that long-awaited

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‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey’ uncovered

by Gabriel Paletz
May 25, 2016
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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey offers a portrait of Nazi camps both more terrible and humane than any Hitchcock fable.

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Hybrid Film

by Zoë Robertson
April 19, 2016
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Hybrid film draws on the stylistic and narrative traditions of both documentary and fiction film to varying degrees.

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