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A woman holds a film clapper and is viewed in silhouette standing before a sunset.

Documentary Producers Alliance Launches Ethics Resource Library

by Nidhil Vohra
July 9, 2025
Industry/News

The Documentary Producers Alliance launches the Ethics Resource Library to assist documentary filmmakers across production and distribution.

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Yuqi Kang’s Freedive with Jessea Lu

by Winnie Wang
January 13, 2025February 11, 2025
Features/Interviews

7 Beats Per Minute director Yuqi Kang reflects upon making a documentary with freediver Jessea Lu and swimming outside the usual director-subject relationship.

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Skills, Desires, and Dispositions of a Documentary Filmmaker

by Shannon Walsh
December 15, 2023
Features

Governor General's Award winner Shannon Walsh offers pro tips for documentary filmmakers about storytelling, relationships, ethics and adaptation.

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Clair Titley Talks The Contestant and Filling in the Gaps

by Audrey Chan
November 7, 2023November 8, 2023
Festivals/Interviews

An interview with The Contestant director Clair Titley about access to people, archival materials, and different cultures in her documentary.

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Ethics and Accountability: A View from the U.S.A.

by Tom White
September 2, 2023
Features/Industry

What are one’s moral responsibilities when holding the camera in a documentary? A view of new practices in ethics and accountability from the USA.

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DOC Releases Report on Mental Health in Canadian Documentary

by Pat Mullen
May 3, 2023December 9, 2024
Hot Docs

DocuMentality: A Report on Mental Health in the Canadian Documentary Sector is a new report from the Documentary Organization of Canada.

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Subject Review: Asking All of Documentary’s Big Questions

by Pat Mullen
April 5, 2023
Reviews

Subject invites a who's who of the documentary field to consider questions of ethics, representation, and responsible storytelling in non-fiction.

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POV’s Top Reads of 2022: What Drives Doc Readers’ Interest?

by Pat Mullen
December 27, 2022
Features

The most popular reads of 2022 include articles on Island of the Sea Wolves, Jihad Rehab, Deconstructing Karen, Tantura, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

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Sundance Responds to Jihad Rehab Controversy

by Pat Mullen
February 18, 2022
Industry/Sundance

Sundance's Joana Vincente and Tabitha Jackson release statement regarding the controversial festival selection Jihad Rehab.

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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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Congratulations to the #documentary Oscar nominees Congratulations to the #documentary Oscar nominees! 🏆

Best Documentary Feature:
✉️ The Alabama Solution 
✉️ Come See Me in the Good Light
✉️ Cutting through Rocks
✉️ Mr. Nobody against Putin
✉️ The Perfect Neighbor

Best Documentary Short:
✉️ All the Empty Rooms
✉️ Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
✉️ Children No More: "Were and Gone"
✉️ The Devil Is Busy
✉️ perfectly a strangeness 🫏

Best Song 
✉️ "Dear Me" - Diane Warren: Relentless 
✉️ "Sweet Dreams of Joy" Viva Verdi

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Back at @hotdocs_ for 1 screening only, catch fest Back at @hotdocs_ for 1 screening only, catch festival favourite #TheGardenerAndTheDictator this weekend as Jane Hui Wang shares her family story.

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📆: Jan 18, 7:00 PM 
📰: Read more in Liam Lacey's interview with Wang! (Link in bio.)

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Miette pastry chef Meg Ray and Maria Thomsson from Miette pastry chef Meg Ray and Maria Thomsson from Rödlöga, Sweden at the world premiere of Sweet Störy at @psfilmfest. Here, they share their favourite sweets in this story of cross-cultural cooking. 🌴

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We're at the @psfilmfest this year, with coverage We're at the @psfilmfest this year, with coverage rolling including the world premiere of Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story! Stay tuned for more. 

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Oscar nominee Carol Connors marches into @psfilmfe Oscar nominee Carol Connors marches into @psfilmfest to her theme from Rocky, and then performs "You Loved My Night Away" - a song she wrote for Elvis Presley the night he died and hasn't released until now.

At the world premiere of the #documentary Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connor Story. 

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#StateOfFirsts director Chase Joynt talks about fo #StateOfFirsts director Chase Joynt talks about following congresswoman Sarah McBride on her historic campaign amid the culture wars and the targeting of trans rights, and making a vérité doc after hybrids like No Ordinary Man and Framing Agnes. #PalmSprings #PSIFF #Documentary #movies
@yanunifilm executive producer Laura Nix tells the @yanunifilm executive producer Laura Nix tells the @psfilmfest audience about what drew her to sharing @juma_xipaia's story and working with director Richard Ladkani to raise awareness about the fight for the Amazon. 🌴

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Andrea Werhun and @nicobazuin tell us about changi Andrea Werhun and @nicobazuin tell us about changing the narrative on sex work and being maximalists with colour in #ModernWhore. 💋

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📖: POV 124
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📽: U.S. premiere @psfilmfest; coming soon to theatres

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Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a  Hollywood remake. Kate Hudson and director Craig Brewer tell us about reimagining the doc as a movie musical!

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📽: in theatres Dec. 25
📽: rent the doc on Vimeo

#SongSungBlue #KateHudson #NeilDiamond #movies #Documentary
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