I’ve finally hit my patience limit with the paperwork required by broadcasters and funding agencies to make a television documentary.
The world’s oldest profession gets a perspicacious spin in a handful of judicious films at Hot Docs 2012.
One of the great pleasures of being at festivals is the opportunity to meet filmmakers. They can teach and inspire you.
Laura Sky's non-profit SkyWorks Foundation has led to three decades of what she calls “wildly participatory” documentary filmmaking about society’s forgotten people.
One approaches the release of Sarah Polley’s highly anticipated feature documentary about her family, Stories We Tell, with a mixture of relief and trepidation.
While making his latest documentary, filmmaker Yung Chang learned that he had an inner fruit hunter, and a hugely passionate one at that.
In his wittily titled The Tower of Babble, the CBC's Richard Stursberg has written a breezy, insightful and unabashedly self-serving business-bookcum-memoir of his tempestuous tenure.
"Ever since Bell Media announced its $3.38-billion purchase (subject to regulatory approval) of Astral Media, I’ve been worried," notes our policy columnist.
POV editor Marc Glassman and Kevin McMahon debate the latter's revolutionary suggestion that documentary is Canada's national art form.
In The End of Time, Peter Mettler displays his signature curious, roving gaze of an artist who has learned to believe his own eyes.