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

by Pat Mullen
January 10, 2025
Reviews

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
Reviews

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
Reviews

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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"Without Debbie, there wouldn't be a Hot Docs." W "Without Debbie, there wouldn't be a Hot Docs."

We're so sorry to hear of the passing of Hot Docs co-founder Debbie Nightingale, who died July 10 at age 71. After getting Hot Docs off the ground and helping it to grow to become North America's largest documentary festival, Nightingale left city life to run the popular Haute Goat farm, which continues to delight attendees. 🐐

Our thoughts are with her family.

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New 'do! @ridm_festival and @forumridm reveal thei New 'do! @ridm_festival and @forumridm reveal their visual identities for 2025. 💇‍♀️

Check out these designs by Juliette Moal and Kaïla Curcio Tremblay. RIDM will announce its full lineup on Oct. 29. The festival runs Nov. 20-30. 📽

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What does it mean to graduate from a university wh What does it mean to graduate from a university while students protest for human rights and the institutions issuing their diplomas fail to hear their concerns?

@nidhilvohra offers a personal reflection on #TheEncampments and graduating amid a movement. 

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If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽

In an new essay, @silafaen looks at documentaries like #TheRealityOfHope that are produced in the VR world and docs made in the gaming space like #GrandTheftHamlet to consider a new frontier for non-fiction!

📰: Issue 123, on stands now
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Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪

Winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at @hotdocs_.

#EndlessCookie #movies #dogs #film #animation #documentary #Shamattawa
Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, fo Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, for supporting the arts in our community! Our OAC grant has allowed us to publish two print issues annually and year-round online stories covering many film festivals and documentary filmmakers in Ontario and across Canada! 🙏 #thankful #ONarts #documentary #magazines
Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfes Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfest! 📽

Some POV approved highlights include:
- Come See Me in the Good Light 😭
- Mistress Dispeller ♥️♥️♥️
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- Front Row 🩰

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The festival runs May 29 - June 1! #documentary #BMFM2025 #BlueMountain #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #MistressDispeller #FrontRow #movies #film
More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man wins inaugural Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Award at Cannes in new collaboration between @goldenglobes and @artemisrisingfoundation. What doc do you think would have won last year?🏆 #documentary #Cannes #TheSixBillionDollarMan #film #movies
🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, 🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, one of the year's top docs, for its Toronto premiere at @insideoutfestival on Saturday, May 24 at TIFF Lightbox. 

The hit documentary about students putting their voices to good use in the national championships for public speaking.

 🎟️🎟️ Want to attend the in-theatre screening of Speak at Inside Out? POV has five pairs of tickets to give away to readers. 

👉All you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

What film is the opening night gala of Inside Out 2025?

a) Cactus Pears
b) Baby
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d) Outerlands

Need a hint? Check out the festival lineup!

📨 Email your answer to info@povmagazine.com with the subject Inside Out.

Contest closes May 21 at noon EST.
Inside Out runs May 23 to June 1.

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Pee-Wee as Himself Leads Documentary Emmy Nominations

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Hot Docs Co-Founder Debbie Nightingale Passes Away at 71

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