Issue 81 - Spring 2011
Katerina Cizek’s NFB work Highrise breaks new ground in innovative multi-media digital documentary storytelling.
What happened to Brett Gaylor’s first online collaborative documentary platform project, Open Source Cinema?
Read MoreKaterina Cizek’s Highrise is a multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs.
Read MoreNiobe Thompson’s documentary Tipping Point: The End of Oil has taken on more than the standard hand-wringing anti-big-business stance of other non-fiction features about the Alberta tar sands.
Read MoreThe Internet has been creeping into every aspect of our lives, and its latest stop was at the National Film Board, which recently launched 10 new documentary films.
Read MoreWhen Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, Canada’s PTV productions was ready to shoot film and make an extraordinary website for Inside Disaster.
Read MoreAt IDFA, each year the show goes on and on, crammed with snaking ticket queues and rush lines for both the public and pass-holders.
Read MoreMost narrative documentaries arc, climax and conclude for good, whatever happens when the cameras stop rolling. Bananas and Battle of Wills say otherwise.
Read MoreFrederic Bohbot’s production house, Bunbury Films, has morphed into one of the busiest documentary think tanks in Quebec.
Read MoreLeaders of industry, government and labour sat down with filmmakers, broadcasters, academics, new-media designers, engineers and students to ask a question that seems to have fallen off the agenda: where are the women?
Read MoreThe CRTC bought Bell’s two-step hook, line and stinker, snapping their own credibility so thoroughly as to turn Tony Clement into something few ever thought would be possible: a folk hero.
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