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Issue 103

Freeze Frame: ‘Neighbours’

by Marc Glassman
February 3, 2017
Features

Reflections on Norman McLaren's Oscar-winning NFB classic Neighbours.

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Working the Dream

by Nancy Lanthier
January 5, 2017
Features

In Limit Is the Sky, Vancouver filmmaker Julia Ivanova immerses herself in Fort McMurray’s millennial generation.

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The Docmaker’s Tale

by Mark Dillon
January 2, 2017
Features/TIFF

The timing of Jamie Kastner’s feature The Skyjacker’s Tale couldn’t be better. In late 2014, while the Toronto director worked on the movie, the U.S. and Cuba announced the restoration of diplomatic

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DocLit: ‘Transmedia Marketing: from film and TV to games and new media’

by Christina Clarke
December 14, 2016
Reviews

Transmedia Marketing: From Film and TV to Games and Digital Media by Anne Zeiser is a practical guide for film and TV promotion.

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Angela Grauerholz: Memories Are Made of This

by Laurence Butet-Roch
December 12, 2016
Photography

A good way to enter Angela Grauerholz’s world is through her books—or rather their scans—from her personal library.

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Neighbourhood Watch

by Adam Nayman
November 15, 2016
Features

Hugh Gibson's The Stairs and Charles Officer's Unarmed Verses are two docs set in Toronto’s social housing districts

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Performing Documentary

by Pat Mullen
November 7, 2016
Essays/Features

Hybrid films Aim for the Roses, Nuts!, and London Road pull back the curtain between fiction and non-fiction while making sense of a world of quack politicians and fake news.

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Truth Tellers

by Daniel Glassman
November 3, 2016
Features

In All Governments Lie, Fred Peabody and Peter Raymont consider the legacy of independent journalists like I.F. Stone in the age of Trump.

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Policy Matters: The Screen Cockblock

by Barri Cohen
September 20, 2016
Features/Industry

What does it take to have gender parity in the director’s chair? So asked a number of women’s film and television groups this past year in a series of panels at the

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The POV Interview: Alanis Obomsawin – ‘We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice’

by Marc Glassman
September 7, 2016
Interviews

What I see is the respect and the strength of the people and the capability of being able to defend yourself and being heard. I think if I were to die tomorrow,

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