The NFB is central to B.C.’s indie doc sector. Eisner investigates the Board’s accomplishments and goals in Vancouver and beyond.
Keep ReadingIn Love at the Twilight Motel, Alison Rose discovers what it's like to film a doc about a “by the hour” motel.
Keep ReadingCapturing Reality about the art of the documentary, is very much an homage to the NFB as well. Ferrari takes us through her memories of the films and filmmakers she interviewed for
Keep ReadingAt 76, Alanis Obomsawin is circling back to her early focus on language, education, and children. “I want to make a series of short children’s films,” she tells me.
Keep ReadingAn in-depth interview with Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of Montreal's EyeSteelFilm.
Keep ReadingJennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier discuss their documentary Act of God, which opens the 2009 Hot Docs Film Festival.
Keep Reading"I was in front of a tremendous force of life, like a little, strong and thin gold shaft of wheat, who shines without any doubts," Laura Bari says of Antoine.
Keep ReadingStan Douglas’s visually complex works aren’t just mechanically and stylistically clever, they offer constellations of carefully researched historical references, and poetic and rigorous intellectualism.
Keep ReadingReflections on John Greyson and Laurie Lynd's landmark gay short film Maker of Monsters on its 20th anniversary.
Keep ReadingGoldsbie examines cityscapes as sites for art and cultural renewal through the prism of a new doc by Hadley Obodiac about Canada’s urban centres.
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