No documentary has every been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Could that change in 2020 as docs provide the windows into the world that we're all craving right now?
Keep ReadingRadio Atlas is the “English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.” It’s like subtitled movies, if they didn’t have pictures. And it’s available online and wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Keep ReadingIt’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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Keep Reading"The great virtue of the program is that the counsellors step back and let the boys run the show, which is why it went off the rails in 2017. We’d done that
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
Keep ReadingAgnès Varda celebrated the beauty of the marginalized, turning her lens on the elderly, indigent, immigrants, and people of colour. Most of all, she focussed on women.
Keep ReadingCriterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.
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