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.
Katerina Cizek’s Highrise is a multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs.
What happened to Brett Gaylor’s first online collaborative documentary platform project, Open Source Cinema?
The Summer Institute of Canadian Film and Television ran a brilliant programme for 29 years—until the Conservative government cut its funding. A summing-up by its founder Tom Shoebridge.
There is a handful of proper film schools in Ontario and Manitoba and, given the proximity to the industry and many other mitigating factors, it should come as no surprise that many of the better ones are found in Toronto.
Intrepid journalist Nancy Lanthier uncovers some hot topics in her peek at some of the top film schools in Canada’s farthest west provinces as part of POV's annual education survey.