Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s brilliant controversial documentary Blackfish argues that whales have emotions and complex familial and societal organizations.
Most documentary film festival audiences go to the cinema in search of veracity. But only at the True/False Film Festival are they encouraged to sing about that desire.
Larry Kent was the first feature filmmaker to make English-Canadian movies with the urgency of the European new waves of the 1960s but his work was barely seen by audiences and ignored by critics and, later, academics.