It’s a well-worn critical cliché to say that a particular film is “as boring as watching paint dry." Does the Reel Artists Film Festival prove otherwise?
Keep ReadingSurviving Progress opens with an arresting series of images: a pair of chimpanzees puzzling over the correct placement of two wooden blocks in a white-walled laboratory.
Keep ReadingCanadian films in the past had been well represented at TIFF. This year? Save for Surviving Progress and Pink Ribbons Inc., they will be shockingly hard to find.
Keep ReadingSunny Side of the Doc is international documentary film market for information about international co-production in these timorous times.
Keep ReadingAn intimate portrait by POV international editor Wintonick of Ally Derks, IDFA (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam) founder and Executive Director and the winner of the Doc Mogul Award this year.
Keep ReadingWith four successful films in 10 years, and a recent marriage and a baby, Alan Zweig is cautiously happy, but admits it wasn’t always so.
Keep ReadingCanadian shorts that made it to Rotterdam’s prestigious international film festival addressed reality in very different ways.
Keep ReadingLike most niche fests, Hot Docs emerged humbly when the Documentary Organization of Canada established it in 1993 as an industry insider’s event, but it's since grown into a premiere worldwide event.
Keep ReadingTrish Dolan's Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson and David York's Wiebo's War offer radical portraits of environmental renegades.
Keep ReadingAt IDFA, each year the show goes on and on, crammed with snaking ticket queues and rush lines for both the public and pass-holders.
Keep Reading