Issue 112 - Spring/Summer 2020
Wintopia is a touching tribute to late filmmaker, POV editor, and Canada’s “documentary ambassador,” Peter Wintonick, by his daughter, Mira. Subscribe today!
Perhaps in light of our industry’s exposed vulnerability, Parliament’s appreciation for who we are and what we do will inform new legislation that can stabilize and improve the entire industry and our capacity to tell stories into a hardier future.
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When this issue was planned, COVID-19 was in the distance, nothing but a series of news reports from Asia. For a month, I was corresponding with writers and conducting interviews from France, southern Italy, and London. By early March, it
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Down with access, impact, and story! Let’s reclaim what we value in the films we love to make, and the films we love to watch. Let’s reimagine what festivals can mean.
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Mira Burt-Wintonick discusses her new film Wintopia, a moving and personal reflection about her late father, Peter Wintonick -- filmmaker, former POV editor, and Canada's documentary ambassador.
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Hot Docs' 2020 opening night film Softie by director Sam Soko and EyeSteelFilm is a portrait of photojournalist and activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi.
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Two Canadian institutions collide in Mike Hoolboom’s heartfelt Judy Rebick doc Judy Versus Capitalism
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-Ariel Nasr’s NFB film The Forbidden Reel shares rare excerpts from classic Afghan cinema and images of life pre-Taliban.
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Agnès Varda celebrated the beauty of the marginalized, turning her lens on the elderly, indigent, immigrants, and people of colour. Most of all, she focussed on women.
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It’s been sixteen years since the release of The Corporation introduced a wealth of exciting strategies for producing, promoting, and distributing Canadian documentaries that seek not just to enlighten viewers but give them a call to action. Where are impact
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Radio Atlas is the “English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.” It’s like subtitled movies, if they didn’t have pictures. And it’s available online and wherever you listen to podcasts.
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