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A polar bear lies spreadeagle on the ground, sedated, with a large patch of green dye on its back. The bear looks directly into the camera.

Geopolitics and Ecology Heat Up the North

by Gesilayefa Azorbo
October 19, 2026
Essays/Features

How films like Nuisance Bear, Angry Inuk, Time and Water, Tuktuit: Caribou, and Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again capture the environmental and social complexity of the North.

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Academy Invites 398 New Members, 34 to Doc Branch

by Pat Mullen
June 28, 2023
Industry

The Academy invites 398 names to its membership, including Daniel Cross, Melanie Miller, Shaunak Sen, and Simon Lereng Wilmont in documentary branch.

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Twice Colonized Review: Liberated, But Still Angry

by Marc Glassman
May 10, 2023
Reviews

Inuk lawyer and activist Aaju Peter receives a moving profile about her advocacy for Indigenous rights and freedoms in Twice Colonized.

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Twice Colonized Sees an Angry Inuk Return with Renewed Passion

by Pat Mullen
January 28, 2023
Interviews/Sundance

An interview with Twice Colonized subject and Inuit activist Aaju Peter, director Lin Alluna, and producer Alethea Arnaquq-Baril.

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The Sundance Documentary Watch List

by Pat Mullen
January 18, 2023
Sundance

POV's Documentary Watchlist for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival includes Twice Colonized, The Stroll, A Still Small Voice, 20 Days in Mariupol, The Longest Goodbye and Deep Rising.

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National Canadian Film Day Documentary Highlights

by Pat Mullen
April 20, 2022
Industry/Lists

National Canadian Film Day highlights for documentary screenings, conversations, at home viewings, and more to celebrate Canadian content.

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Now We Are 80 – NFB Top Tens

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman Andrew McIntosh Dorothy Woodend Judy Wolfe Matthew Hays Maya Gallus Susan G. Cole
December 21, 2019
Features/Lists

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada, eight POV writers share their picks for the top ten films in the history of the NFB. From documentary features,

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‘Midwives’ and ‘Colour of the Wind’ Lead Hot Docs Forum Winners

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2019
Hot Docs/Industry

Midwives, co-produced by EyeSteelFilm, wins the first look pitch prize at the Hot Docs Forum.

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The Hottest of Hot Docs

by Marc Glassman Pat Mullen
April 20, 2018
Features/Hot Docs/Lists

In honour of Hot Docs’ 25th anniversary, the POV team picks some of the highlight films and events from the festival so far.

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Our Complicated Romance with the North

by Vivian Belik
June 27, 2017
Essays

It’s a frigid February evening in Whitehorse when Tanya Tagaq takes the stage. She’s in a black dress and still buzzing from her recent Polaris Prize win. “I just want to tell the children

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