POV Magazine

TIFF 2014: Report on Docs

Published on February 22, 2015January 6, 2022

The documentary highlights of TIFF 2014 hit a peak with Michael Moore's statement, “People want to go home and have sex after your movie,”

Policy Matters: The Sisyphean Toil

by Barri Cohen

Published on February 22, 2015November 28, 2021

Industry

It’s unlikely many know the names of the cultural warriors who toil on our collective behalf, so let me shine the spotlight of this page on one of them: Lisa Fitzgibbons

John Reeves: The Human Face as Landscape

by Vincenzo Pietropaolo

Published on February 11, 2015February 3, 2022

Features/Photography

No one understands portraits better than John Reeves, the dean of Canadian photojournalists, who created over 500 images of cultural icons,

Diary of a Guerrilla Filmmaker

by Jason O'Hara

Published on January 23, 2015February 3, 2022

Features/Industry

Jason O'Hara recounts his experience shooting a documentary amid the 2014 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and violent protests.

Photo Essay: Remember Me

by Carly Clarke

Published on January 15, 2015February 3, 2022

Photography

A social documentary photo essay of residents in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Lost Atlantis

by Moze Mossanen

Published on January 15, 2015February 3, 2022

Industry

Reflections on the Golden Age of television arts programming in Canada, and the disappearance of these docs as broadcasting declined.

Remembering Peter Harcourt

by Adam Nayman

Published on December 16, 2014February 3, 2022

Features

You’d be hard-pressed in 2014 to find anybody working in Canadian cinema who doesn’t owe something to Peter Harcourt.

The POV Interview: Thom Andersen

by Christina Clarke

Published on December 15, 2014February 3, 2022

Interviews

An interview with Thom Anderson, critic, programmer, and filmmaker best known for his 2003 69-minute essay film, Los Angeles Plays Itself.

Policy Matters: The JG Effect

by Barri Cohen

Published on December 5, 2014February 3, 2022

Industry

Could the allegations of abuse and bad behaviour by Jian Ghomeshi be the wake up call the industry needs to push for gender parity?

Twisted Roots

by Stephanie Boyd

Published on November 13, 2014February 3, 2022

Features

After 20 years of struggling, learning, screwing up, laughing, fighting, winning, losing and waking up in the middle of the night with the cold sweat of fear, we’re still here.