Issue 60 - Winter 2005
Canada’s documentary ambassador Peter Wintonick reports from International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), while Deepa Mehta outdoes herself with Water.
It’s important for a child to write about these films to show that we can understand and learn that there’s a price to pay when powerful organizations manipulate all of us into eating their bad foods or consuming their products.
Read MoreAward-winning doc filmmaker Marc Levin and legendary graphic novelist Will Eisner individually took on the notorious anti-Semitic fraud The Protocols of Zion in the past year.
Read MoreSince its inception, the Rencontres has been more than a film festival; it’s also been a central command for lobbying and debating issues in documentary film.
Read MoreVisible Evidence revealed a tendency among documentary filmmakers to embrace new technologies in the dissemination of their films and the vital discourse surrounding them.
Read MoreFiles analyzes why Deepa Mehta's powerful Water is likely to change attitudes toward multiculturalism in Canada and Hindu fundamentalism in India.
Read MorePalestinian born and Dutch educated director Hany Abu-Assad makes political films, whether they're docs or dramas. He talks candidly to POV's editor about his films, philosophy and choices for IDFA's Carte Blanche programme.
Read MoreFOR SOME YEARS NOW, there’s been a battle going on in the back of filmmaker Magnus Isacsson’s head. “But it wasn’t until I saw an article in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, comparing our society with the visions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen
Read More