Issue 106 - Summer 2017
Lana Šlezić’s Hot Docs opening night selection Bee Nation follows young Indigenous students as they prepare for the national spelling bee and finding their voices along the way. Subscribe today!
Lana Slezic's Hot Docs opener Bee Nation observes a group of young Indigenous students preparing for the national spelling bee and gaining confidence along the way.
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François Jacob’s A Moon of Nickel and Ice, Ann Shin’s My Enemy, My Brother and Mila Aung-Thwin and Van Royko’s Let There Be Light offer global perspectives
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Attiya Khan (A Better Man), Joseph Clement (Integral Man), Ali Weinstein (Mermaids), and Kalina Bertin (Manic) are among the directors making their Hot Docs debuts.
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Highlights for Vancouver's 2017 DOXA documentary festival include The Road Forward, No Fixed Address, For Dear Life, and Manifesto.
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Heritage Minister Joly has teased us with the suggestion that some kind of “contribution” model will happen from OTTs; it just won’t be an “internet tax.” So what will it be?
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“For over 1,000 years, the Japanese have been coming to their forests to do what they call ‘forest bathing’” Several months after watching the documentary Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of the Trees (2016), I was hiking a mountain trail
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“Music is an incredible conduit for telling complex stories,” says Catherine Bainbridge. “It just opens us up as humans to listen.” The Rezolution Pictures co-founder has seen that to be true ever since her latest film earned a storytelling prize and rapturous
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The National Film Board (NFB) showcased yet another of its multimedia projects at New York’s influential Tribeca Film Festival this spring. Draw Me Close, a still-in-production long-form virtual reality (VR) experience, follows on previous festival successes such as Stan Douglas’
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The weight of Canada’s sesquicentennial is being felt across a range of cultural manifestations and CONTACT, Toronto’s month-long photo festival, is no exception. The 20 primary exhibitions and 17 public installations all spotlight Canadian artists, as well as most of
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The documentation of landscape by photographers is as alluring today as it was at the beginnings of photography, perhaps because the genre offers a comforting niche for soul-searching and exploration of one’s time and place. Focusing a camera on a
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