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Hip Hop Docs: Community, Rhymes, and Life

by Courtney Small
February 18, 2025
Essays/Features

Hip Hop documentaries like As We Speak, Nas: Time Is Illmatic, Black Life: Untold Stories, and Free Meek show the power of music and community.

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Miryam Charles Receives Inaugural Charles Officer Legacy Award

by Pat Mullen
February 6, 2025March 12, 2025
Industry/News/TIFF

Miryam Charles receives the inaugural Charles Officer Legacy Award presented by TIFF and CBC during the opening ceremonies for Canada's Top Ten.

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Freeze Frame: A Short Hymn for Charles Officer

by Marc Glassman
December 2, 2024
Features

Remembering filmmaker Charles Officer, director of films such as Unarmed Verses and Mighty Jerome - a talented artist lost too soon.

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Remembering Charles Officer

by Pat Mullen
December 4, 2023
Features

A look back at the impact of filmmaker Charles Officer, who passed away on December 1 at age 48 and left behind a notable body of work in documentary and drama.

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POV Picks: 5 Canadian Docs to See at Home

by POV Staff
April 20, 2022
Features

Want to see the films you read about in POV? Connect with Canadian documentaries through Telefilm Canada's See It All portal!

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The Cannons Celebrates the Right to Play

by Pat Mullen
November 13, 2021November 16, 2021
Features/Festivals

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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All Grown-Ups Were Once Children: Charles Officer’s ‘Invisible Essence’

by Pat Mullen
March 8, 2019August 21, 2021
Interviews

Charles Officer's Invisible Essence dives into the world of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and amasses a chorus of talking heads from around the world who are united in their enthusiasm

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Review: ‘The Little Prince’

by Marc Glassman
March 8, 2019August 28, 2021
Reviews

Invisible Essence: The Little Prince (Canada, 90 min.) Dir. Charles Officer What turns certain books into classics? Scott Fitzgerald wrote some fine novels and many terrific short stories but it’s The Great Gatsby we

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Racism: Documenting Prejudice

by David Spaner
February 13, 2019January 7, 2022
Essays/Features

Hate. It’s raw, visceral and, in the rising global craziness of 2018, we see it every day. We also see it on screens. Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016), inspired by

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Review: ‘Unarmed Verses’

by Pat Mullen
October 2, 2017October 19, 2021
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Unarmed Verses (Canada, 85 min.) Dir. Charles Officer   The thought experiment called the ship of Theseus asks if a boat remains the same if one removes all of its boards and

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