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A young woman sits at a computer playing the game Roblox. She is wearing a black t-shrt, has dark brown hair, and is wearing glasses. Her room is lit by pink lights.

Dangerous Games Explores How Gamers Fight to Keep the Metaverse Safe from Predators

by Pat Mullen
May 24, 2025
Features/Interviews

An interview with Dangerous Games: Roblox and the Metaverse director Ann Shin and participant Alex Farrugia about youth activists in the gaming world from predators.

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The view from behind of a man with long hair watching a video screen. The screen includes a partial face of a man with a moustache and beard.

To Catch a Predator: On Shamed, Outrage, and Empathy

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2025October 21, 2025
Features/Hot Docs/Interviews

Shamed director Matt Gallagher and producer Cornelia Principe explore the true crime tale of an online vigilante who exposed "predators" with tragic consequences.

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A pixelated image of an elderly Indigenous man's face. Only his nose, eyes, cheeks, and ears are visible with the line of a blue hat at the top of the frame.

#skoden Review: The Man Behind the Meme

by Marc Glassman
May 1, 2025
Hot Docs/Reviews

In #skoden, Damien Eagle Bear explores the human story behind a viral internet meme about an Indigenous man putting his dukes up.

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The Click Trap Review: It’s Just a Click Away

by Susan G. Cole
May 1, 2024
Hot Docs/Reviews

The Click Trap offers more than a litany of transgressions by greedy corporations, and even some hope, with its look at online biz.

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Backlash Review: Get Riled-Up with Stories of Cyber-Sexism

by Pat Mullen
January 13, 2023June 6, 2023
Reviews

four women share their experiences with online harassment in Lea Clermont-Dion and Guylaine Maroist's documentary Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age.

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Now Streaming: Star Wars Kid Confronts the Force of Viral Videos

by Pat Mullen
March 31, 2022
Features

Star Wars Kid is Mathieu Fournier's NFB documentary about Ghyslain Raza, who unwillingly rose to infamy as the internet's first viral star.

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TikTok Boom Review: Whet Your App-etite

by Pat Mullen
January 28, 2022June 6, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

Coded Bias director Shalini Kantayya explores the rise of the social media app TikTok and its hugely popular viral videos in TikTok, Boom.

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REVIEW: Deep Web

by Andrew Parker
April 27, 2015January 5, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

Alex Winter's meticulously researched, impartial, and prescient Deep Web casts an eye upon the problematic future of national security.

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The Economics of Internet Television in Canada

by Cameron McMaster
April 1, 2010April 18, 2022
Industry

DOC's policy point person analyzes how TV makes money, even on the internet. Guess who's paying? Filmmakers: read and weep.

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The Objectives of Documentary

by Jessica Duffin Wolfe
September 1, 2008May 9, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

If air travel is immoral, and the Internet has contracted geography, then what kind of window is the documentary screen today?

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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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📽: 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

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How have documentaries captured political divides How have documentaries captured political divides since Oct. 7? @dimwig surveys the field of films about Palestine and Israel.

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📽: Coexistence, My Ass! (Now on TVO)

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Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these days, so what does it mean for the field?

@_rachelkh looks at films about Pee-Wee Herman, Pamela Anderson, and Elvis Presley to consider some dos and don'ts of the celebrity doc.

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