DOC responds to the NFB’s strategic plan with steps that include restoring production spending and committing to greater racial and filmmaker representation.
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Canadian director Ben Proudfoot discusses his Oscar-shortlisted doc A Concerto Is a Conversation, directed with composer Kris Bowers, which recently screened at Sundance.
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Coded Bias is a chilling doc probes the implications of facial recognition software and algorithms.
Keep Reading“Why you, Moze?” The question was being asked of me by a young woman with a gorgeous cascade of afro curls. “Why you?” By “you” I knew immediately what she meant. The
Keep ReadingAfter the endless hand-twisting debates around race in Canada’s artist movie portals – in production co-ops, in distribution joints, in cinematheques and fests – why are they still so very white? This
Keep ReadingAt a Toronto variety store, amid racks of candy, lottery tickets and cigarettes, a Korean couple battles their Canadian-born children. The father demands that his kids finish school, get married and start
Keep ReadingMy Piece of the City (Canada, 60 min.) Dir. Moze Mossanen Earlier this year, Charles Officer’s Unarmed Verses wowed audiences at Hot Docs and other festivals with its story of youths
Keep ReadingLet’s talk about some typical Canadian documentaries. Where do they take place? In rural India, where Hindu girls practice military drills and swear death to their religious enemies while their peers preen
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Keep ReadingUNITERRUPTED’s The Carter Effect is a crowd pleaser directed by Hamilton, ON native Sean Menard. “I want people in Toronto to feel like it’s ours,” the director said of the film in his post-screening
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