Highlights from POV's Fall/Winter 2021 issue, which surveys the state of Indigenous film production, and highlights docs including Gabor, Flee, The Last of the Right Whales, and Three Minutes - A Lengthening.
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Watch the short doc Joe Buffalo from The New Yorker as it shares an actor's experience surviving the residential schools and finding strength through skateboarding
How Selwyn Jacob, Sylvia D. Hamilton, and Sam Pollard broke barriers in documentary production and continue to fight for change in the film industry.
Carlos Lopez Estrada's Summertime is a modern city symphony film fuelled by the spoken word poetry of L.A. artists.
Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres), directed by Ivan Grbovic and co-written/shot by Sara Mishara, will represent Canada in this year's Oscar race for Best International Feature.
Fire Music is a labour of love as director Tom Surgal passionately traces the history of free jazz.
Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival announces its 2021 programming line-up, which includes Wochiigii Io: End of Peace and Last of the Right Whales.
How have Canadian filmmakers responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and captured stories from this historic time? A survey with filmmakers Yung Chang, Matt Gallagher, Ngardy Conteh George, and the NFB's project The Curve explores an urgent era of filmmaking.
Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello, and Francesco Munzi's Futura will open this year's Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), while Joannie Lafrenière's Gabor will have its world premiere on closing night.
Stanley Nelson looks back at the 1971 Attica Prison riot and massive case of police brutality that followed. The doc is a vital contribution that speaks to the ongoing fight against systemic racism.