Issue 83 - Fall 2011
POV issue 83 features a cover story on Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks’ Surviving Progress, one of only two Canadian docs at TIFF 2011.
That’s reality TV, not documentary, I can hear you say. Well, our motives as doc-makers might be different but our means are often similar.
Read MoreFor my money, dollar for yuan, China is the place for everyone to be these days. Either in ‘reel’ life or vicariously.
Read MoreAt the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Festival in Durham, North Carolina, Rick Prelinger curated and presented “One Foot in the Archives."
Read MoreBikram yoga, like any other method, is built up around ancient asanas obviously in the public domain.
Read MoreThe New Nordic Documentary Cinema is marked by an impulse toward humanist storytelling that combines the personal with the political.
Read MoreIs it possible to make one-off “POV” docs anymore? A look at the sorry state of Canadian broadcasting.
Read MoreSunny Side of the Doc is international documentary film market for information about international co-production in these timorous times.
Read MoreRecollections of meeting Richard Leacock.
Read MoreCanadian films in the past had been well represented at TIFF. This year? Save for Surviving Progress and Pink Ribbons Inc., they will be shockingly hard to find.
Read MoreSurviving Progress opens with an arresting series of images: a pair of chimpanzees puzzling over the correct placement of two wooden blocks in a white-walled laboratory.
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