Alan Zweig's When Jews Were Funny provocatively and humorously asks: Why were Jews funny, and why aren’t they funny anymore?
Keep ReadingAn interview with Watermark directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier about their essay film follow-up to Manufactured Landscapes.
Keep ReadingDocumentary highlights to see at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Keep ReadingBà nôi, Alphée of the Stars, and Brand New River showcase Quebecois voices among the Canadian films at Hot Docs 2013.
Keep ReadingA survey of Hot Docs shorts including Just As I Remember, Softening, Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam, and Packing Up the Wagon.
Keep ReadingWith NCR: Not Criminally Responsible at Hot Docs, John Kastner’s films continue to be preoccupied with weightily Dostoyevskian themes.
Keep ReadingMost documentary film festival audiences go to the cinema in search of veracity. But only at the True/False Film Festival are they encouraged to sing about that desire.
Keep ReadingDebra Zimmerman has taken the feminist non-profit Women Make Movies from grassroots production facility to the world’s largest distribution outlet of films by and about women.
Keep ReadingDirector Ann Shin recounts her experience making The Defector: Escape from North Korea and learning new ways to see the world.
Keep ReadingA battered yet indefatigable optimism suffuses the work of Alan Zweig, the Toronto filmmaker behind 15 Reasons to Live at Hot Docs 2013.
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