An intimate portrait by POV international editor Wintonick of Ally Derks, IDFA (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam) founder and Executive Director and the winner of the Doc Mogul Award this year.
Keep ReadingWith four successful films in 10 years, and a recent marriage and a baby, Alan Zweig is cautiously happy, but admits it wasn’t always so.
Keep ReadingLike most niche fests, Hot Docs emerged humbly when the Documentary Organization of Canada established it in 1993 as an industry insider’s event, but it's since grown into a premiere worldwide event.
Keep ReadingTrish Dolan's Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson and David York's Wiebo's War offer radical portraits of environmental renegades.
Keep ReadingLeading doc festivals IDFA, Hot Docs and One World in Schools (OWiS) are leading the way in teaching young students how to make and understand non-fiction films.
Keep ReadingIn the documentary Steam of Life, Joonas Berghäll and his co-director Mika Hotakainen explore a peculiar male vulnerability that swarms the hot box of sixteen different saunas across Finland.
Keep ReadingCan documentaries break with tradition and become truly avant garde? Mike Hoolboom's Mark and Yuval Sagiv's How I Filmed the War prove it's possible.
Keep ReadingThere are some festivals that I have come back to year after year, with pleasure, almost with a feeling of being part of the furniture.
Keep ReadingIn the Name of the Family and Life with Murder are tragic and terrifying films by John Kastner and Shelley Saywell.
Keep ReadingMark Peranson’s Waiting for Sancho absolutely belongs in the pages of a Canadian magazine attuned to documentary and independent cinema and its absence from this year’s Hot Docs lineup is worth noting.
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