Bà nôi, Alphée of the Stars, and Brand New River showcase Quebecois voices among the Canadian films at Hot Docs 2013.
Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s brilliant controversial documentary Blackfish argues that whales have emotions and complex familial and societal organizations.
A survey of Hot Docs shorts including Just As I Remember, Softening, Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam, and Packing Up the Wagon.
David Vaisbord offers a six-point manifesto to help Canadian documentary filmmakers cut it in an industry with modest means.
The stories told in Morgan Neville's Twenty Feet from Stardom form a bittersweet chorus about a passion for music that endures.
Award winning filmmaker Molly Dineen was born in Canada, but identifies as British and is driven by the need to understand the world.
There appears to be a fundamental disconnect between the various public bodies empowered to fund documentaries in Canada.
With NCR: Not Criminally Responsible at Hot Docs, John Kastner’s films continue to be preoccupied with weightily Dostoyevskian themes.
Canadian broadcasters are forced into making promises they’ll inevitably break, and find themselves dealing with pesky independent producers.
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.