With her feature Inside Lara Roxx, filmmaker Mia Donovan explores the life of a young porn actress who contracted HIV.
The CRTC bought Bell’s two-step hook, line and stinker, snapping their own credibility so thoroughly as to turn Tony Clement into something few ever thought would be possible: a folk hero.
Leaders of industry, government and labour sat down with filmmakers, broadcasters, academics, new-media designers, engineers and students to ask a question that seems to have fallen off the agenda: where are the women?
Composer Lesley Barber is one of those artists who is constantly ahead of the curve. A look at her work from When Night Is Falling to Marion Bridge.
Frederic Bohbot’s production house, Bunbury Films, has morphed into one of the busiest documentary think tanks in Quebec.
Most narrative documentaries arc, climax and conclude for good, whatever happens when the cameras stop rolling. Bananas and Battle of Wills say otherwise.
At IDFA, each year the show goes on and on, crammed with snaking ticket queues and rush lines for both the public and pass-holders.
When Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, Canada’s PTV productions was ready to shoot film and make an extraordinary website for Inside Disaster.
The Internet has been creeping into every aspect of our lives, and its latest stop was at the National Film Board, which recently launched 10 new documentary films.
Niobe Thompson’s documentary Tipping Point: The End of Oil has taken on more than the standard hand-wringing anti-big-business stance of other non-fiction features about the Alberta tar sands.