For director and cinematographer Martin Duckworth, cameras are instruments for finding beauty, no matter how ordinary what he films might be.
Keep Reading"It has fallen upon me to inscribe the synthesized thoughts and feelings of a number of people who are working in documentary and independent cinema here in Canada," writes Peter Wintonick.
Keep ReadingI’ve finally hit my patience limit with the paperwork required by broadcasters and funding agencies to make a television documentary.
Keep ReadingOne approaches the release of Sarah Polley’s highly anticipated feature documentary about her family, Stories We Tell, with a mixture of relief and trepidation.
Keep ReadingIn his wittily titled The Tower of Babble, the CBC's Richard Stursberg has written a breezy, insightful and unabashedly self-serving business-bookcum-memoir of his tempestuous tenure.
Keep ReadingPOV editor Marc Glassman and Kevin McMahon debate the latter's revolutionary suggestion that documentary is Canada's national art form.
Keep ReadingIn The End of Time, Peter Mettler displays his signature curious, roving gaze of an artist who has learned to believe his own eyes.
Keep ReadingShoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film by film journalist David Spaner, ambitiously explores international indie movements from the 1940s onward.
Keep ReadingMichel Brault’s seminal work in documentary is honoured with the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award by Hot Docs.
Keep ReadingYung Chang's China Heavyweight illustrates how winning is not necessarily the ultimate reward, it’s the lessons learned along the way.
Keep Reading