The night before New Year’s Eve, veteran filmmaker Pepita Ferrari lost her life to cancer. While her life was cut short, her contribution to documentary cinema was long and in early 2019
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Since the creation of the Vancouver and Montreal based studios, interactive works and VR have taken off and the Board has expanded production in new media across the country.
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In Canada, it’s called fair dealing. In the States, fair use. But as for hard guidelines, there aren’t any.
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Keep ReadingIssue 108 of POV featured Barri Cohen’s popular Policy Matters column (Shame, Shame, Shame), which referred to the Canada Media Fund (CMF) in regards to Allarco Entertainment Limited Partnership (“Super Channel”). The article drew quite some attention
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Is Super Channel up to its old tricks again? If Super Channel doesn’t have the foresight to cash-flow their own business, and if they can’t honour their deals, they shouldn’t have a
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Hot Docs’ worthy recipient of the 2018 Don Haig Award, Ina Fichman, discusses her new films Laila at the Bridge and The Oslo Diaries and a prolific career in documentary.
Keep ReadingIris Ng, the great cinematographer of documentaries such as Stories We Tell, A Better Man, The Apology and Netflix’s Making a Murderer, joined NFB producer Lea Marin (Unarmed Verses) for an engaging
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