The first annual cross country look at cinema programmes being taught in Canada. An incisive and informative review by a 2009 Canadian film grad.
“Once you really understand climate change, it would be ridiculous to work on anything else,” says Franny Armstrong, director of the new climate catastrophe documentary The Age of Stupid.
A hard-hitting look at where globalization and international policies are taking the world by Quebecois Brouillette.
An air of timeliness underscores any discussion of the 1958-60 Candid Eye cinema direct films made by the National Film Board’s Unit B.
Philip Hoffman is one of Canada’s most important documentary filmmakers, full stop. To make this case, one only needs to look at the current ubiquity of ‘hybrid documentaries’ and the critical and ethical debates surrounding their emergence.
Crossmedia. Docmedia. Cyberdocs. New Media, Next Media, Now Media. 360 degree programming. Multiplatform. The documentary dictionary is expanding via Submarine.
The second part of a career-spanning interview with Peter Mettler discusses his early days as a cinematographer for such narrative filmmakers as Atom Egoyan and Patricia Rozema.
What was Cuba like in the Sixties when the Revolution was young? A veteran filmmaker shares his memories.
How far has documentary film production come in the last 20 years since the landmark box office success of Michael Moore’s Roger & Me?
Lixin Fan's first feature Last Train Home is an intensely moving documentary about the migration of peasants across China’s vast terrain.