Victoria Lean and Daniel Cross are the recipients of this year’s DOC Institute Honours. Lean was given the DOC Vanguard Award, while Cross received the Rogers-DOC Luminary Award
Keep ReadingIris Ng, the great cinematographer of documentaries such as Stories We Tell, A Better Man, The Apology and Netflix’s Making a Murderer, joined NFB producer Lea Marin (Unarmed Verses) for an engaging
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Keep ReadingThe DOC Institute announced the second annual DOC Institute Honours Award Winners last night and POV is proud to share the news that editor Marc Glassman was among the honourees. Glassman received
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Keep ReadingLike most niche fests, Hot Docs emerged humbly when the Documentary Organization of Canada established it in 1993 as an industry insider’s event, but it's since grown into a premiere worldwide event.
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