Winner of the Sundance World Cinema special jury Prize for Cinematography, Acasa, My Home brilliantly plays up the contrasts between living in urban and rural environments.
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Nancy Kulik looks up to screen icon Sophia Loren and recalls seeing in the strong characters of films like Two Women, Marriage, Italian Style, and Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow a role model for Italian motherhood.
Tiger, HBO’s two-part documentary about the “Michael Jordan of golf,” offers a compelling study of an athlete who inspired masses of fans and quickly repelled them. Tiger knows the answer to the question that Uchitel asks. Audiences want all the salacious and sordid details about Woods’ downfall.
Often podcasting networks would relegate racialized stories to their race podcast, simultaneously profiting off of appearing “woke” while limiting the scope of stories that could be told and who would hear them. If you weren’t searching for content by and about racialized folx, how would you find it?
Lance Oppenheim’s Some Kind of Heaven opens the doors of the idyllic retirement community The Villages where happily-ever-after doesn’t come as easily as some retirees expect.
On one hand, Pretend It’s a City is an engaging portrait of Fran Lebowitz, but on the other, it’s an essential time capsule of pre-COVID city life. I haven’t laughed so heartily and consistently since 2019.
In unravelling the complicated political ball of yarn that surrounded Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Bryan Fogel ensures one walks away aware of who was truly pulling the deadly strings.
On November 25, 2020, POV mailed its latest issue, #113 (Fall/Winter 2020) to subscribers. This issue featured the cover story on the documentary Inconvenient Indian and its director, Michelle Latimer. This article noted that Latimer was of Métis and Algonquin descent. On December 17, 2020, CBC Indigenous published a story that put Latimer’s claims of
What is the future like for Canadian documentary producers? POV discusses the state of Canadian documentary with two producers, Peter Raymont and Andreas Mendritzki.
The best documentaries of 2020 include Boys State, The Viewing Booth, Collective, Pahokee, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, 76 Days, The Truffle Hunters, and Wintopia.