“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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The timeliness of a poem, painting, novel or film draws not only on its origin and response but also its capability to speak to the present long after the fact. This is
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Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America sees the ACLU's Jeffrey Robinson deliver a compelling exploration of the nation's past and future.
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Nelson reflects on working with William Greaves and inspiring change through documentary.
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Someone Like Me and One of Ours intimately confront identity and belonging.
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For those of us who witnessed it live on TV, the image is indelible. 200-metre Olympic champion Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos stand on the podium, their fists raised in
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The entrance of Dee’s Tots, the 24-hour daycare captured in Through the Night, is plastered from floor to ceiling with photos of all the children that have walked through its doors. The
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Jennifer Holness's Subjects of Desire celebrates Blackness while exploring how the beauty industry shapes images of Black women.
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When so many media images favour images of Black death and trauma, films like Becoming and Hale County, This Morning, This Evening illustrate the complexities of portraying Black lives onscreen.
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