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Three huskies run in the snow pulling a sled, which is outside the frame. The two dogs leading the pack have white fur patterned with brown, and the dog behind them is black with white patches. All the dogs have their tongues dangling out of their mouths.

Folktales Review: Pups Come of Age in the ‘Gap Year’

by Pat Mullen
July 30, 2025
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In Folktales, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady observe students come of age as they attend Nordic folk high school during their gap year.

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Sundance Announces Documentaries for 2025 Festival

by Pat Mullen
December 11, 2024March 12, 2025
News/Sundance

Documentaries announced for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include the Canadian documentary Endless Cookie and co-production Cutting Through Rocks.

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Endangered Review: The Fight for a Free Press

by Pat Mullen
June 28, 2022June 30, 2022
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Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing explore the fight for a press press in Endangered with the stories of journalists reporting and photographing from the front lines.

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‘I Carry You with Me’ Is a Love Story that Crosses Borders

by Pat Mullen
August 19, 2021August 23, 2021
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How many love stories can say they’ve spanned decades, crossed borders, and traversed genres? A tender tale of migration and belonging fuels Heidi Ewing's hybrid drama I Carry You with Me.

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Pushing Against the Status Quo: A Talk with ‘One Of Us’ Directors Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing

by Pat Mullen
October 15, 2017August 19, 2021
Interviews/TIFF

Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing discuss One of Us, an urgent docu-thriller about individuals facing the life-altering decision to leave their conservative Hasidic community.

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Review: ‘One of Us’

by Pat Mullen
September 11, 2017October 31, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

One of Us (USA, 95 min.) Dir. Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere)   TIFF Docs programmer Thom Powers calls One of Us a “documentary thriller” in his

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Documentaries Are Stronger Than Ever at TIFF

by Marc Glassman
September 9, 2017February 17, 2026
TIFF

TIFF Docs 2017 class includes new films by Fred Wiseman, Brett Morgen, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, Chris Smith, Sophie Fiennes, and more!

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Review: ‘Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You’

by Jason Gorber
May 4, 2016December 22, 2021
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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing is a touching portrait of the television icon.

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Docs at Sundance

by Jason Gorber
January 29, 2016January 2, 2022
Sundance

Report on the documentaries at Sundance 2016 including Nothing Left Unsaid, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, and Tickled.

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