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Issue 101

Freeze Frame: Colin Low

by Marc Glassman
August 2, 2016January 10, 2022
Features

Remembering Colin Low, director of NFB films like Corral, City of Gold, Universe, Billy Crane Moves Away, and other Canuck classics.

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Alec Soth: Reconfiguring the Narrative

by Marc Glassman
July 27, 2016January 9, 2022
Photography

An interview with photographer Alec Soth regarding his show at the 2016 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

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Orly

by Mike Hoolboom Chase Joynt
July 13, 2016January 9, 2022
Essays

“He didn’t live a double life. He lived twice.” - An appreciation of Chris Marker's influential classic La jetée

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Outsiders: Mavericks and the maligned are celebrated at the AGO

by Vincenzo Pietropaolo
July 5, 2016January 9, 2022
Photography

On the AGO's  Outsiders: American Photography and Film 1950s–1980s exhibit featuring the photography of Gordon Parks, Diane Arbus, and other artists.

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Rosie Dransfeld: A Modern Master of Verité

by Rebecca Sullivan
July 4, 2016January 9, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Rosie Dransfeld has become one of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary cinema verité directors. A look at Hot Docs 2016 Focus On honouree.

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Working Women

by Kiva Reardon
June 21, 2016January 9, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Rama Rau's Hot Docs opener The League of Exotique Dancers explores the power of burlesque and flipping the gaze.

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DocLit: How to build an effective social impact campaign

by Liz Marshall
June 6, 2016January 10, 2022
Reviews

Tracey Friesen's Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change is a welcome companion for filmmakers exploring impact culture.

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Policy Matters: Is This the Best We Can Do?

by Barri Cohen
May 16, 2016December 20, 2021
Industry

Jean-Pierre Blais, chair of the CRTC, should be fired or have the decency to resign for his indifferent destruction of Canadian media.

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A dialogue between two crewmembers on Spaceship Earth

by Marc Glassman Kevin McMahon
April 30, 2016January 9, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Is the planet sustainable? Spaceship Earth director Kevin McMahon and POV’s Marc Glassman engage in an epistolary exchange.

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Minority Report

by Matthew Hays
April 29, 2016January 9, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

John Walker explores his family history as an Anglophone in Quebec My Country Mon Pays

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If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽

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Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪

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Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, fo Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, for supporting the arts in our community! Our OAC grant has allowed us to publish two print issues annually and year-round online stories covering many film festivals and documentary filmmakers in Ontario and across Canada! 🙏 #thankful #ONarts #documentary #magazines
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More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man wins inaugural Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Award at Cannes in new collaboration between @goldenglobes and @artemisrisingfoundation. What doc do you think would have won last year?🏆 #documentary #Cannes #TheSixBillionDollarMan #film #movies
🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, 🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, one of the year's top docs, for its Toronto premiere at @insideoutfestival on Saturday, May 24 at TIFF Lightbox. 

The hit documentary about students putting their voices to good use in the national championships for public speaking.

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📨 Email your answer to info@povmagazine.com with the subject Inside Out.

Contest closes May 21 at noon EST.
Inside Out runs May 23 to June 1.

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The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good L The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good Light wins @hotdocs_ Audience Award after holding the #1 spot all festival, while Endless Cookie wins Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Film. 🗳

Your top five:
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3. Antidote
4. Coexistence, My Ass!
5. Saints and Warriors

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