Issue 62 - Summer 2006
Larry Weinstein’s Mozartballs leads a new crop of Canadian documentaries premiering at Hot Docs, while Grizzly Man‘s Werner Herzog and Project Grizzly‘s Peter Lynch are smarter than the average bears.
From the Lumière Brothers, Georges Méliès, the Nouvelle Vague and cinéma verité, where would documentary be without France?
Read MoreIf he is known at all, Bill MacGillivray will be remembered as the director of intricately structured dramatic features in the 1980s and 1990s.
Read MoreWhen it first began in 1994, Hot Docs primarily showcased Canadian works--broadcast docs--and it showed. How do artists and festivals find balance?
Read MorePeter Wintonick has been for over three decades, in both high profile and, more often, invisible ways, a prime mover in Canada’s internationally acclaimed documentary tradition
Read MoreRudy Buttignol’s presence was crucial in the founding of DOC and the development of Hot Docs. He talks to POV about his passionate involvement with documentary.
Read MoreAs the dot-com boom explodes and the digital revolution takes over, how will broadcasters adapt or, more likely, leave independents behind?
Read MoreCanada’s Peter Lynch, the director of Project Grizzly, and Werner Herzog, the maker of Grizzly Man, document doomed quests. In a personal essay, Lynch extols the obsessions of Herzog, this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award recipient at Hot Docs.
Read MoreConsidering the films of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and the documentary roots that inspired films like Rosetta and L'Enfant.
Read MoreAlan Berliner's Wide Awake and Annette Mangaard's Into the Night both explore insomnia and sleeplessness with unique vision.
Read MoreMozartballs and Burnt Toast are two musical documentaries by Larry Weinstein that assert his unique vision, style, and appeal.
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