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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird Review – Long Strange Trip

by Pat Mullen
January 10, 2025
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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird review: Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Mars Volta/At the Drive-In look back on their music and relationship.

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Silver’s Uprising Review: The Grass Is Always Greener

by Jason Gorber
June 8, 2024
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Silver's Uprising tells the story of tech entrepreneur Amos Dov Silver and his innovation with app-based drug dealing in Israel.

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A Wolfpack Called Ernesto Review: When iPhones are the New Vérité

by Liam Lacey
April 30, 2023
Hot Docs/Reviews

If iPhones are the new cinema vérité, as Martin Scorsese suggests, then the true crime doc A Wolfpack Called Ernesto is the future.

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Love in the Time of Fentanyl Intimately Observes How Harm Reduction Saves Lives

by Paloma Pacheco
May 12, 2022November 14, 2022
Festivals/Interviews

An interview with Love in the Time of Fentanyl director Colin Askey on documenting front line workers in Vancouver's East Side amid the opioid crisis.

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TIFF Review: Comala Is an Intimate True Crime Tale

by Pat Mullen
September 11, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

Gian Cassini's Comala is a potent true crime family saga as the filmmaker explores his father's life as a hitman. He encounters the victims left to tell the tale in a country

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The Crime of the Century Review: A towering examination of the Opioid Crisis

by Marc Glassman
May 7, 2021August 9, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

We all know that way too many people have died from overdosing on supposedly legal drugs, but have you looked at the numbers lately? In Alex Gibney’s brilliant new investigative series The

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Lost Boys Review: Gross Exploitative Filmmaking

by Pat Mullen
May 5, 2021August 9, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks the narrator towards the end of Lost Boys. A similar question passed through this reviewer’s mind multiple times whilst screening the film. Lost Boys

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Violeta Ayala on the Power of Documentary-Inspired Virtual Reality

by Madeline Lines
January 28, 2021August 10, 2021
Interviews/Sundance

"Everything exists in a mixture between Quechua mythology and reality. It’s reality in the sense that we have the plaza, the prison, the mountains – everything we have in Bolivia – but

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My Psychedelic Love Story Review: Errol Morris Trips Out

by Marc Glassman
December 1, 2020August 22, 2021
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My Psychedelic Love Story is the latest in what’s getting to be long a line of docs made by Errol Morris, which encourage his central characters to tell their side of what

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Radical Health: A Threat to a Nation

by Dina Lobo
June 5, 2020August 21, 2021
Features/Festivals/Hot Docs

“I hope the film will reframe the idea of criminals in the U.S and also help people understand the criminalization of drugs and political prisoners,” says Mia Donovan. on her experience with

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Want the story behind the @northernsuperleague? @t Want the story behind the @northernsuperleague? @thepitchdoc_nsl follows the fight to establish a women's pro soccer league in Canada. ⚽️

We chatted with director Michèle Hozer at @windsorfilmfest about her documentary hitting the circuit. 

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/how-the-pitch-captures-the-push-for-equity-in-work-and-play/

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Catch LOVE, HAROLD at festivals including @workmanartsto & @windsorfilmfest this week. 

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/love-harold-review-the-art-of-talking-it-out/

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Experience Your Higher Self with us at @planetinfo Experience Your Higher Self with us at @planetinfocus

Part exposé, part empathetic portrait, @a.n.n.n.n.n.n.i.e ’s @onf_nfb doc Your Higher Self explores the booming world of life coaching—a modern phenomenon capturing our society’s obsession with self-improvement.

📅 October 24, 6:30 PM
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1006c Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M6H 1M2

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"Watch out for the Karen!" Is #ThePerfectNeighbo "Watch out for the Karen!" 

Is #ThePerfectNeighbor the Oscar frontrunner for Best Documentary? 

📽: @hotdocs_ this weekend
👨‍💻: @netflixca Oct. 17

🔗: in stories!

#documentary #truecrime #film #movies #Netflix
Get ready to laugh and cry! @vancityreynolds and Get ready to laugh and cry!

@vancityreynolds and @clinhanks tell us why John Candy: I Like Me invites an important conversation about mental health and captures the star's iconic Canadianness. 🇨🇦

🔗: link in stories

📽: @primevideo Oct. 10

#johncandy #johncandyilikeme #movies #documentary #mentalhealth #tiff #tiff50 #ryanrenolds
"She was the host of Church St." @therealgoldelox "She was the host of Church St." @therealgoldelox tells us about her #documentary Michelle Ross: Unknown Icon and remembering the life and work of Toronto's beloved drag artist. 

🔗: Link in stories!

🖥: @cbcgem and Passionate Eye. 

📷: Krys Cee

#michelleross #drag #Toronto #movies #cbc #gaytoronto
Doc Soup returns for a new season at @hotdocs_ wit Doc Soup returns for a new season at @hotdocs_ with #TheLibrarians on Oct. 8! 

We chatted with director Kim A. Snyder about looking at the rise in book banning and the librarians fighting for America's kids.

(Link in stories.)

#documentary #books #reading #movies #hotdocs
Tour the world with @robert_bateman_artist and @br Tour the world with @robert_bateman_artist and @brisfos in @theartofadventure__doc!

 The friends and director @alireidfilm sat down 26th @filmfest_ca to talk about their #documentary before it screens at @viffest & @windsorfilmfest. 🚐

Link in stories.

#TheArtofAdventure #Film #movies #travel #robertbateman #viff2025 #wiff
🎟🎟 Want to attend this weekend's #PeterMettl 🎟🎟 Want to attend this weekend's #PeterMettler retrospective at @tiff_net?

We have tickets to give away to the following screenings:
- Gambling, Gods, and LSD - Sat, Oct. 4 @ 6:15pm
- Scissère - Sun, Oct. 3 @ 7:15pm

Peter Mettler will be in hand at both screenings.

To win,  just email info@povmagazine.com and let us know which screening you'd like to attend! 📽

#film #movies #Toronto #yyz #tiff #tiffcinematheque #giveaway

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