Since its inception, the Rencontres has been more than a film festival; it’s also been a central command for lobbying and debating issues in documentary film.
Award-winning doc filmmaker Marc Levin and legendary graphic novelist Will Eisner individually took on the notorious anti-Semitic fraud The Protocols of Zion in the past year.
Profiling British documentarian Kim Longinotto whose work champions women and children fighting oppression and discrimination. Sisters in Law is her latest offering.
It’s important for a child to write about these films to show that we can understand and learn that there’s a price to pay when powerful organizations manipulate all of us into eating their bad foods or consuming their products.
The Doc Summit began in 2004 as a policy conference at Hot Docs in Toronto, and evolved into a major yearlong research project. Telefilm Canada (TFC) and the National Film Board (NFB), with the Canadian Television Fund (CTF) joining in, initiated this policy exercise. A larger advisory group was then organized and the Documentary Organisation
BANFF DIARY – SHE SAID By Debra Felstead Born and bred in Ontario, I am startled by the raw beauty of the Albertan Rockies. They will probably always throw me into a state of I-am-a- teeny-tiny-being-in-a-vast-beautiful-universe shock, today being no different. I am traveling to attend the 2005 Banff International Television Festival, where I have
What does a body have to do to get noticed around here, anyway? In a contribution to Canadian film history, One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema, George Melnyk attempts an answer. National identity is a slippery notion in this bi- polar country of French and English influences liberally affected and challenged by immigrant voices, which lives,
Wanna make a quick buck? Join the thousands who are cashing in on the exciting field of animation training! Get in while it’s hot! Hyperbole aside, animation education is booming in Canada. Schools vary in credibility but in amongst the fly-by-nights are excellent programs, many of which can trace their origins back to one source:
POV is pleased to present a section from Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture by Steve Gravestock, the Associate Director of Canadian Special Projects for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The book, which will be launched in tandem with a retrospective programme of Owen’s work at TIFF, is the first ever written on the director
CANADIAN CINEMA WOULD BE VASTLY DIFFERENT IF IT WASN’T FOR THE PRESENCE OF WAYNE CLARKSON. The new Executive Director of Telefilm Canada (TFC), Clarkson comes with an extensive resume that bears retelling. Wayne Clarkson emerged from the hothouse federalist Liberal environment of Ottawa in the 1970s, when the Trudeau era had propelled the notion of Canadian identity to the forefront of political debate. During that time, Clarkson