National Canadian Film Day highlights for documentary screenings, conversations, at home viewings, and more to celebrate Canadian content.
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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,
Keep ReadingMidwives, co-produced by EyeSteelFilm, wins the first look pitch prize at the Hot Docs Forum.
Keep ReadingIn honour of Hot Docs’ 25th anniversary, the POV team picks some of the highlight films and events from the festival so far. Allan King, Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998 During the 60s, when documentaries
Keep ReadingIt’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
Keep ReadingHot Docs President Chris McDonald and Angry Inuk director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril are this year’s honourees for the Rogers-DOC Luminary Award and DOC Vanguard Award.
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More than three decades passed before an Inuk was able to make a feature film that showed a native perspective on the seal hunt. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s documentary Angry Inuk is that long-awaited
Keep ReadingAngry Inuk by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril asks, “How does a culture with an understated anger confront a group that is exactly the opposite?”
Keep ReadingThe Islands and the Whales chronicles the fight of a small community in the Faroe Islands, a remote island country just north of Scotland.
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