Claude Joli-Coeur, Julie Roy, and Jérôme Dufour discuss the 2020-2023 strategic plan released by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), which emphasizes creators and audience engagement
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With the stakes so high for crews and participants in this moment of historic pandemic and protest, should documentary filmmakers be picking up their cameras? Barri Cohen considers filmmaking amid the COVID-19
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Two movies, Toronto-based, set fewer than a hundred meters apart, made by millennial women. But that’s not all that connects #BLESSED and There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace.
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It’s been sixteen years since the release of The Corporation introduced a wealth of exciting strategies for producing, promoting, and distributing Canadian documentaries that seek not just to enlighten viewers but give
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As the film industry logs on to the first virtual edition of the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, filmmakers are in an unprecedented situation. For the four teams of
Keep ReadingIn 2020, in the midst of one the worst health crises ever to assault the modern world, Hot Docs was one of the first film festivals to come through with a full
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A new survey released today and conducted by the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) reveals the effects of COVID on productions nationwide.
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Down with access, impact, and story! Let’s reclaim what we value in the films we love to make, and the films we love to watch. Let’s reimagine what festivals can mean.
Keep ReadingPerhaps in light of our industry’s exposed vulnerability, Parliament’s appreciation for who we are and what we do will inform new legislation that can stabilize and improve the entire industry and our
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Michelle van Beusekom discusses her new role as executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada, stepping into the role just as the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, and her career in documentary to
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