Issue 76 - Winter 2009
Lixin Home’s Last Train home is a landmark cinema vérité documentary that offers further proof of EyeSteelFilm’s ability to expand the frame of Canadian cinema.
I strongly urge the forming of a national digital panel, one that will bring together leading players from all sectors to begin to think through the long-term issues related to the development of a strong digital Canada.
Read MoreLixin Fan's first feature Last Train Home is an intensely moving documentary about the migration of peasants across China’s vast terrain.
Read MoreHow far has documentary film production come in the last 20 years since the landmark box office success of Michael Moore’s Roger & Me?
Read MoreWhat was Cuba like in the Sixties when the Revolution was young? A veteran filmmaker shares his memories.
Read MoreThe second part of a career-spanning interview with Peter Mettler discusses his early days as a cinematographer for such narrative filmmakers as Atom Egoyan and Patricia Rozema.
Read MoreCrossmedia. Docmedia. Cyberdocs. New Media, Next Media, Now Media. 360 degree programming. Multiplatform. The documentary dictionary is expanding via Submarine.
Read MorePhilip Hoffman is one of Canada’s most important documentary filmmakers, full stop. To make this case, one only needs to look at the current ubiquity of ‘hybrid documentaries’ and the critical and ethical debates surrounding their emergence.
Read MoreAn air of timeliness underscores any discussion of the 1958-60 Candid Eye cinema direct films made by the National Film Board’s Unit B.
Read MoreA hard-hitting look at where globalization and international policies are taking the world by Quebecois Brouillette.
Read More“Once you really understand climate change, it would be ridiculous to work on anything else,” says Franny Armstrong, director of the new climate catastrophe documentary The Age of Stupid.
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