Issue 105 - Spring 2017
POV’s biggest issue ever offers an in-depth look at the history of Canada’s national art form: documentary! Generously sponsored by Reel Canada / National Canadian Film Day, the OMDC, the NFB and Henry’s Camera.
The Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s is one of the most startling stories in Canadian history, one of high drama and adventure played out in the gorgeous frozen landscape of the North. City of Gold, Colin Low and Wolf
Read MoreDirector Yung Chang’s feature debut Up the Yangtze is a rarity—a film that portrays a vastly complex reality made immediate and personal through an artist’s sensibility. Monumental, yet intimate.
Read MoreFilm histories are highly selective and reflect the biases, tastes and viewing experiences of those who write them. I hope that my following sampling of inward-looking political and activist docs may help readers discern a cursory chronicle of doc dissent
Read MoreThe queer connection to documentary filmmaking is longstanding and unmistakable. Around the world, fiction filmmakers have had to deal with a long history of censorship and repression, meaning images of LGBTQ characters were often diminished or simply deleted, rendering the queer
Read MoreIt’s a frigid February evening in Whitehorse when Tanya Tagaq takes the stage. She’s in a black dress and still buzzing from her recent Polaris Prize win. “I just want to tell the children in the audience that I’m going to make
Read MoreSaskatchewan film is innovative, reflective work that leans toward the personal, yet tells a story specific to a part of the country.
Read MoreWhen Greg Tourino, a science librarian at Simon Fraser University and former graduate cinema student was asked in BCLiving Magazine about his passion for Black Canadian film, his answer could stand for the last couple of generations of Afro-Caribbean Canadians.
Read MoreAlberta’s competing identities are reflected in the visual economies that comprise its documentary history, but they are also constituted by it.
Read MoreWhen Nettie Wid’s KONELĪNE: our land beautiful (2016) collected three Canadian Screen Award nominations this year, it was another highlight in British Columbia’s rich documentary legacy. It’s a history of innovation, resilience and social conscience that includes some of Canada’s best
Read MoreLet’s talk about some typical Canadian documentaries. Where do they take place? In rural India, where Hindu girls practice military drills and swear death to their religious enemies while their peers preen for the nation’s biggest beauty pageant a few
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