Author David Mitchell and director Jerry Rothwell discuss their new documentary The Reason I Jump, based on the book by Naoki Higashida.
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What are the stories being told about the Middle East, how are they being told, and does it matter who is documenting them?
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Unfinished films, lost masterpieces, and stillborn projects assume new lives in documentary form. How The Other Side of the Wind, Shirkers, and Dune endure as non-fiction.
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The standout Canadian docs of 2019 include nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, This Is Not a Movie, The Corporate Coup d'État, Toxic Beauty, and Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies.
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POV's picks for the best international docs of 2019 include One Child Nation, American Factory, For Sama, Honeyland, Apollo 11, Desert One, Rolling Thunder Revue, and more!
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To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada, eight POV writers share their picks for the top ten films in the history of the NFB. From documentary features,
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It is perhaps impossible to assess the impact of the body of work created by Canada’s National Film Board (NFB; ONF en français) on our national culture—or, indeed, on international cinematic culture.
Keep ReadingMillefiore “Millie” Clarkes and Anne Pick are the winners of this year’s DOC Institute Honours. The filmmakers received the BMO-DOC Vanguard Award and the Rogers-DOC Luminary Award, respectively.
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John Kastner was charmed by POV’s advocacy of him wanting to be called the Dostoevsky of documentary, but that term didn’t completely capture the immensely talented director of documentaries such as NCR:
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Academy Award winner discusses her documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator about hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, whose downfall preceded the #MeToo movement and is a tale of a bad guy who got
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