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Complete coverage from the non-fiction side of Park City.
(Photo: Jonathan Hickerson, courtesy of Sundance)

2021 Sundance Report: Part 3

by Pat Mullen Madeline Lines
January 31, 2021August 10, 2021
Reviews/Sundance

Sundance reviews for Cusp ("bold and bracing portrait of youth"), Ailey ("a beautiful act of remembering"), and Sons of Monarchs ("a provocative experiment in metamorphosis").

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Watching Freedom on the Stage: Jamila Wignot Talks ‘Ailey’

by Pat Mullen
January 30, 2021July 27, 2023
Interviews/Sundance

"It felt like I was watching freedom on the stage—these beautiful diverse bodies in motion. It felt like an opening, like I was leaning in the whole evening and it just stayed

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2021 Sundance Documentary Report: Part 2

by Pat Mullen Madeline Lines
January 30, 2021August 10, 2021
Reviews/Sundance

Sundance reviews for Flee ("documents the unfilmable"), Rebel Hearts ("entertaining and vivid"), and The Most Beautiful Boy in the World ("adopts an undercurrent of homophobia").

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Review: In the Same Breath

by Pat Mullen
January 29, 2021August 10, 2021
Reviews/Sundance

Is it time to say we’ve hit the second wave of coronavirus documentaries? Nanfu Wang’s In the Same Breath marks a notably different turn from the first batch of COVID docs out

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Keeping the Faith: An interview with Rebel Hearts’ Pedro Kos and Shawnee Isaac-Smith

by Pat Mullen
January 29, 2021August 10, 2021
Interviews/Sundance

"There are so many parallels to now. There’s a whole other movement that’s happening, just like the empowerment of people back in the ‘60s and the excitement at the times with a

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Violeta Ayala on the Power of Documentary-Inspired Virtual Reality

by Madeline Lines
January 28, 2021August 10, 2021
Interviews/Sundance

"Everything exists in a mixture between Quechua mythology and reality. It’s reality in the sense that we have the plaza, the prison, the mountains – everything we have in Bolivia – but

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Report on Sundance Documentaries – Part 8

by Inge Coolsaet
March 1, 2020August 23, 2021
Festivals/Sundance

A selection of three works, programmed in the New Frontier and Shorts section of Sundance 2020 brings POV’s reporting on the festival to a close. It showcases the innovative storytelling of three

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Report on Sundance Documentaries – Part 7

by Inge Coolsaet
February 6, 2020August 23, 2021
Festivals/Sundance

Powerful forces are at work in this new batch of documentaries, seen and reviewed at the Sundance Film Festival. Backward-looking binaries are dismantled, where art, hope and optimism remain triumphant in the

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Report on Sundance Documentaries – Part 6

by Jason Gorber
February 6, 2020August 23, 2021
Festivals/Sundance

Our latest report on Sundance docs includes Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, Assassins, Mucho Mucho Amor, and Into the Deep.

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Report on Sundance Documentaries: Part 5

by Jason Gorber
February 2, 2020August 23, 2021
Festivals/Sundance

Our next report from the Sundance Film Festival looks at several heavy-hitters. Two Oscar winners are back on the circuit, while a Canadian co-pro gives an iconic rock band its due and

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More #documentary highlights in our look back at # More #documentary highlights in our look back at #TIFF50!

📽: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (TIFF '22)
📽: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (TIFF '93)
📽: The Times of Harvey Milk (TIFF '84)
📽: National Gallery (TIFF '14)
📽: Finding Vivian Maier (TIFF '13)
📽: No Ordinary Man (TIFF '20)
📽: The Stairs (TIFF '16)
📽: Jane (TIFF '17
📽: Shake Hands with the Devil (TIFF '06)
📽: Best Boy (TIFF '79)

🔗FULL LIST: https://povmagazine.com/50-docs-that-defined-tiff-looking-back-at-the-festival-of-festivals/

#documentary #TIFF #film #movies #moviereview
@alan.robert.irwin opens the conversation about me @alan.robert.irwin opens the conversation about mental health in his new film #LoveHarold. Get your first look at the trailer for the doc premiering at @ciffcalgary! (Link in stories) @onf_nfb @52mediainc 

#documentary #film #mentalhealth #movies
Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs that helped define the festival's  first 50 years:
📽: Sharkwater (TIFF '06)
📽: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (TIFF '92)
📽: Manufactured Landscapes (TIFF '06)
📽: Hoop Dreams (TIFF '94)
📽: Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (TIFF '15)
📽: No Sad Songs (TIFF '85)
📽: From the Sky Down (TIFF '11)
📽: Attica (TIFF '21)
📽: Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (TIFF '23)
📽: Leviathan (TIFF '85)

🔗 full list: 📽: 

#TIFF50 #TIFF #Documentary #movies #film #moviereview
📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Pro 📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Programmer, Hot Docs Festival. Doc Soup series is also set to return in Oct. with Sundance hit #TheLibrarians.

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/gabor-pertic-named-lead-programmer-hot-docs-festival/

#Documentary #Toronto #hotdocs
As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 d As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 docs that defined the first 50 years of @tiff_net!

Among the highlights:
📽 Harlan County USA (TIFF '76)
📽 Stop Making Sense (TIFF '84 & '23)
📽 Comic Book Confidential (TIFF '88)
📽 Roger & Me (TIFF '89)
📽 Pina (TIFF '11)
📽 The Act of Killing (TIFF '12)
📽 I Am Not Your Negro (TIFF '16)
📽 @freesolofilm (TIFF '18)
📽 @thebandfilm (TIFF '19)
📽 @tokillatigerdoc (TIFF '22)

What are some of your favourites?

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/50-docs-that-defined-tiff-looking-back-at-the-festival-of-festivals/

#Documentary #TIFF #movies #film
How does a community come together amid tragedy? How does a community come together amid tragedy?

@ibopwebop tells @truedaley about telling the story of Nicholas Gibbs and shedding light on local issues in Montreal. 

Now online from issue #123!

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/night-watches-us-a-father-remembered/

#Documentary #BlackLivesMatter #NicholasGibbs #movies #interviews #Montreal
Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mea Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mean for #documentary? 

@nidhilvohra looks at Gen AI in filmmaking and considers it from the pov of ethics, labour, and environmental impact. 🖲

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/does-generative-artificial-intelligence-represent-reality-in-filmmaking/

#AI #GENAI #filmmaking #movies
Now online from #POV123, @smallmind1978 examines h Now online from #POV123, @smallmind1978 examines how a cohort of Black filmmakers explores diverse canvases for storytelling.

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/shifting-forms-black-auteurs-explore-diverse-canvases/

📷: @blknws: Terms and Conditions (coming to #tiff50!)

#Documentary #film #movies #blknws
New hat! Toronto's double Michelin-starred omakase New hat! Toronto's double Michelin-starred omakase chef Masaki Saito graces the cover of #POV124 as our new issue heads to the printer before STILL SINGLE premieres at @tiff_net 🍣 

Here's a taste of what's inside our new issue. #Subscribe today to read it! https://povmagazine.com/issue-124-fall-winter-2025/

🙏 Thank you to all our writers who contributed to this issue, and everyone who helped make it happen, and especially to @telefilm_canada for sponsoring this issue and our online #tiff50 coverage!

#documentary #film #movies #stillsingle #masakisaito #food #tiff
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