Saskatchewan film is innovative, reflective work that leans toward the personal, yet tells a story specific to a part of the country.
Keep ReadingIt’s a frigid February evening in Whitehorse when Tanya Tagaq takes the stage. She’s in a black dress and still buzzing from her recent Polaris Prize win. “I just want to tell the children
Keep ReadingThe queer connection to documentary filmmaking is longstanding and unmistakable. Around the world, fiction filmmakers have had to deal with a long history of censorship and repression, meaning images of LGBTQ characters were
Keep ReadingFilm histories are highly selective and reflect the biases, tastes and viewing experiences of those who write them. I hope that my following sampling of inward-looking political and activist docs may help
Keep ReadingDirector Yung Chang’s feature debut Up the Yangtze is a rarity—a film that portrays a vastly complex reality made immediate and personal through an artist’s sensibility. Monumental, yet intimate.
Keep ReadingThe Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s is one of the most startling stories in Canadian history, one of high drama and adventure played out in the gorgeous frozen landscape of
Keep ReadingIn 1886, a U.S. Supreme Court decision held that corporations were entitled to the same rights and protections enjoyed by flesh-and-blood individuals. Thanks to this kind of legal fancy footwork, which shielded
Keep ReadingArguably the first Canadian music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot sees Mi’kmaq singersongwriter Willie Dunn setting his own epic protest ballad to visuals. In Dunn’s song, the biography of legendary 19th-century Blackfoot chief
Keep ReadingIt is certainly one of the most justified criticisms of the NFB’s feminist Studio D that it took so long for the unit to produce a feature-length film about the lives of
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In Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Alanis Obomsawin skillfully presents the tense situation behind the lines with compassion towards the Indigenous people while not demonising the police and armed forces.
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