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Ryan Emacora and Jessica Johnson's Uneasy Panoramas kicks off Vertical Features' 2019 series.
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Anne Innis Dagg’s story is one of being smitten by giraffes. It’s also one of setbacks and comebacks. The Canadian zoologist has had a career as long and extraordinary as a giraffe’s
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Ground War director Andrew Nisker discusses his documentary, the fight for safe green space, his father's legacy, and more ahead of the film's premiere at Planet in Focus.
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Sturla Gunnarsson has an illustrious career as the former President of the Director’s Guild of Canada and as a drama and documentary filmmaker. Gunnarsson’s work has earned him an Oscar nomination (After
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As a new professor in Cinema Arts at the University of Windsor, Nick Hector is sharing his 30 years of experience with aspiring filmmakers. His experience has put him in the editing
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The Anthropocene is a concept ripe for exploration by documentarians, who have a unique ability to depict the scale of human impact on the world. How films like Anthropocene: The Human Epoch,
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