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My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow streams on MUBI beginning April 3.

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A woman in her sixties is smiling and standing with two brown horses. She is wearing a broad-rimmed hat, glasses, and a black sweatshirt with a goat logo in the centre that says Haute Goat.

Remembering Debbie Nightingale, DOC’s First Executive Director and Hot Docs Co-Founder

by Marc Glassman
January 17, 2026
Features

A fond farewell to a Hot Docs founder and the Documentary Organization of Canada’s first executive director, Debbie Nightingale.

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To DOC, With Love and Appreciation

by Marc Glassman
December 24, 2024
Industry

POV editor Marc Glassman offers a note of appreciation to the Documentary Organization of Canada in our 40th anniversary issue.

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Freeze Frame: A Short Hymn for Charles Officer

by Marc Glassman
December 2, 2024
Features

Remembering filmmaker Charles Officer, director of films such as Unarmed Verses and Mighty Jerome - a talented artist lost too soon.

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The Dostoyevsky of Documentary

by Marc Glassman
July 18, 2023
Features/Hot Docs

Remembering John Kastner, whose contribution to documentary was recently honoured with an award presented in his name at Hot Docs.

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Terence Macartney-Filgate: A True Professional

by Marc Glassman
November 4, 2022
Features

Remembering filmmaker Terence Macartney-Filgate, the man behind films such as The Back-breaking Leaf and The Days Before Christmas, and a formative member of the direct cinema movement.

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Acknowledging Alanis

by Marc Glassman
March 8, 2022
Features

An appreciation of Alanis Obomsawin's legacy as a filmmaker and an acknowledgement of her vital contribution to our understanding of this land.

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Freeze Frame: Celebrating Uvagut TV

by Marc Glassman
January 10, 2022
Features/Photography

Celebrating Uvagut TV, the all-Inuktut station marks the first television station in Canada to broadcast entirely in an Indigenous language.

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Adieu, Rob Stewart

by Marc Glassman
October 16, 2018January 7, 2022
Features

When Rob Stewart perished in a diving accident in January of 2017, he left behind a huge legacy as an artist and activist. He had become the dream figure for the international

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Freeze Frame: Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen

by Marc Glassman
January 13, 2017July 11, 2022
Features

Thanks to the memories, as well as the books, albums and films, Leonard Cohen will never truly die. Hallelujah.

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Freeze Frame: Don Owen R.I.P.

by Marc Glassman
August 22, 2016January 10, 2022
Features

Don Owen will always be remembered for the madness and inspiration that fostered English Canada’s first great narrative film, Nobody Waved Goodbye.

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An archival image of rocker Carole Pope seated in a backwards folding chair. She is wearing a black leather jumpsuit and boots. This is a cover for POV issue #125 with the letters POV in bright pink and the subtitle The Antidiva in yellow.

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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