A look back at three pioneering photographer-filmmakers: Paul Strand, Helen Levitt, and Gordon Parks and their contribution to documentary.
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Oscar Peterson: Black + White celebrates a Canadian icon, but reveals our ongoing discomfort with confronting this country's ongoing history of racism.
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Director Steve Hoffner discusses his documentary The Cannons, about the efforts of Coach Neal Henderson and his mission to empower Black youths through hockey.
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How Selwyn Jacob, Sylvia D. Hamilton, and Sam Pollard broke barriers in documentary production and continue to fight for change in the film industry.
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Beba, Rebeca Huntt's raw, tender, and poetic celebration of selfhood, is now streaming on MUBI.
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Jamila Wignot's portrait of Black dance maverick Alvin Ailey is a truly moving account of his life, work, and legacy. Ailey is imbued with the presence of a queer icon whose power
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Dance may be the most ephemeral of all the performing arts but that’s part of its poetry. If you’re not there during the performance much will be lost: the choreography, the dancers,
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Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters is about how art lives on, but it is also about art how art passes on.
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“Boxing, for me, was a way of making a political statement,” says Sugar Ray Leonard in The Kings. Leonard is one of four boxing champions at the heart of The Kings, an
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Doc Accelerator Lab Fellow Niya Abdullahi Wants to Enrich Audiences with the Power of Representation
Niya Abdullahi represents a new generation of filmmakers changing the documentary field. She is one of the participants in this year’s Doc Accelerator Lab, supported by Netflix through the Canadian Storytellers Project,
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