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76 Days is a classic cinema verité doc, which effectively depicts what happened at hospitals in Wuhan, China from February to April in the midst of the pandemic. Plunging us directly into
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76 Days director Hao Wu discusses his film that takes audiences to the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic with an urgent cinema verité portrait of the outbreak in Wuhan.
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As the film industry logs on to the first virtual edition of the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, filmmakers are in an unprecedented situation. For the four teams of
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The 2020 edition of Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Festival follows on the heels of Toronto’s Hot Docs by shifting its annual gathering into a streaming event.
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