The inaugural DOC Salon screening was of Robert Greenwald’s Outfoxed, a cheeky deconstruction of what some call the Faux News Network.
Jeremy Munce’s award-winning documentary The Alma Drawings investigates the odd tale of a quiet Ontario woman who created powerful, mystical paintings.
Canada’s Allan King is unquestionably one of our greatest unknown treasures, the undisputed Godfather of Documentary Film.
Toronto’s Floria Sigismondi has created some of the finest music videos in the world, featuring top performers ranging from David Bowie to Fiona Apple
Journalist, memoir writer, documentary filmmaker, actor. At the age of 32, Nelofer Pazira has accomplished much behind, and in front of, the camera. Judith Doyle looks at the woman behind the accomplishments.
On a warm New York night in the early ’90s, I was walking to a party hosted by the Independent Feature Project on lower Broadway, when I came across two very animated, brightly dressed, vociferous women—one a fiery redhead, the other a dynamic blonde. They claimed to be from the Netherlands and to my tin ear they
FOR SOME YEARS NOW, there’s been a battle going on in the back of filmmaker Magnus Isacsson’s head. “But it wasn’t until I saw an article in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, comparing our society with the visions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, that I realized it could be an idea for a film.” An avid reader
He tells me his dreams, sometimes, when I run into him, which is more often than not these days. It seems we are intersecting, like it or not, ready or not, but I can’t remember the dreams. They are so fine, so perfect, I remember thinking each time he tells me that they should be
Palestinian born and Dutch educated director Hany Abu-Assad makes political films, whether they're docs or dramas. He talks candidly to POV's editor about his films, philosophy and choices for IDFA's Carte Blanche programme.
Files analyzes why Deepa Mehta's powerful Water is likely to change attitudes toward multiculturalism in Canada and Hindu fundamentalism in India.