With music by Philip Glass and no talking heads, Jane will delight people who know about ecology and the animals but are genuinely in Ms. Goodall’s life as well.
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Not all of TIFF’s docs end up in TIFF Docs. In recent years, many of the festival’s most interesting documentaries have been screened in the avant-garde program, Wavelengths. This year is no different: with
Keep ReadingCocaine Prison, the latest documentary from Bolivian born indigenous filmmaker Violeta Ayala, provides a shocking insight into the world of drug trafficking in Bolivia. Filmed over four years, Cocaine Prison was shot inside a
Keep ReadingThom Powers is the veteran curator of TIFF Docs. At TIFF, he has programmed premieres for such filmmakers as Morgan Spurlock, Jonathan Demme, Werner Herzog and Kevin Rafferty. He runs the annual Doc Conference
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A good film festival always yields some fresh discoveries from filmmakers who tackle hard questions and shake things up with film form. Last year’s winner for Canadian film, Mathieu Denis and Simon
Keep ReadingMatt Embry takes audiences on an unexpectedly emotional journey in Living Proof. The Calgary-born filmmaker pulls double duty as the director and subject of this compelling film that uses his own diagnosis with
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Denis Côté's A Skin So Soft is a playful and thoughtful hybrid portrait of bodybuilders that considers masculinity from new angles as the muscle men sculpt their bodies with a rigourous regimen
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"Some people describe the doc like a show and it definitely plays like a show with the clapping and the cheering," says Step director Amanda Lipitz. "I learned so much from being
Keep ReadingRead part 1 of the POV interview with Thierry Garrel here. Thierry Garrel has had an enormous influence on the making of point-of-view aesthetic documentaries over more than four decades. Working first with INA [Institut
Keep ReadingThierry Garrel, a French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, joined the Research Department of French Television (ORTF) at the age of twenty and went on to become the Head of the
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