This year’s insanely long awards season is finally over. For the documentary crowd, the Oscar race basically begins at Sundance a full year before the show. This year, however, the pandemic means that we’ve been tracking contenders for sixteen months with Sundance hits like Crip Camp, Time, and The Mole Agent sustaining their buzz since
As the COVID-19 pandemic brings a new definition of "essential" work, how do photographers continue to document the events and experiences of our daily lives, and how do they do so safely for themselves and their subjects?
If Boomer nostalgia music docs were the rage of 2018, 2019, and 2020, then New York street artist bios are the doc fad of 2021. On the heels of Martha: A Picture Story and Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker comes Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide. It’s a rollicking portrait of the NYC pop artist. The
The recent shooting in Atlanta, Georgia that claimed the lives of eight people at a spa has brought renewed attention to anti-Asian racism. These acts, which range from micro-aggressions to violent hate crimes, are not new—they were sadly normalised by the previous White House administration amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the long overdue racial reckoning
Aisha Jamal joins filmmakers Yung Chang, Ngardy Conteh George, and Baljit Sangra in conversation about fleshing out the themes of their documentaries.
Part 1: The Creative Development of Wild Pacific Rescue By Andrew Munger As White Pine Pictures’ Director of Unscripted Development, my primary responsibility is to create, develop and pitch new documentary and factual programs to Canadian and international broadcasters and streamers. In early 2018, I was developing several wildlife and natural history series with story
Having a cinematic tradition that is inexorably linked to the documentary means that the battle between Canadian labour and multinational big business has been well-documented. Since its inception, documentary filmmakers working with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have been on the frontlines of the vibrant peaks and long, long valleys that have been
Much of Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland simply observes actress Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman travelling the USA in search of seasonal work, in conversation with fellow nomads. These mobile-home-dwelling workers, or “workampers” as they call themselves, are not professional actors like McDormand. They’re genuine workampers enacting the drama of their lives. Their stories inform the
Paul Vachon is the surviving member of a Canadian dynasty. He’s the reigning king of the ring. The octogenarian recalls his family history in The Last Villains. The story mostly centres on the fame that Vachon enjoyed with his brother, Maurice, who went by the moniker Mad Dog while Paul cut up the crowd as
The docuseries that introduced audiences to a world of blueberry heists and bee-stealers is back for a second season of true crime with a Canadian twist. CBC’s Farm Crime goes beyond small town paper headlines for an incisive yet humanizing look at the unusual crimes sweeping rural areas from coast to coast. The new season,