The bottom dropped out of the recorded music business some time ago, but box-office for performing arts documentaries has never been better. Films like AmyΒ (2015),Β Janis: Little Girl BlueΒ (2015),Β Muscle ShoalsΒ (2013) andΒ Searching for Sugar
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Keep ReadingThe weight of Canadaβs sesquicentennial is being felt across a range of cultural manifestations and CONTACT, Torontoβs month-long photo festival, is no exception. The 20 primary exhibitions and 17 public installations all
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The National Film Board (NFB) showcased yet another of its multimedia projects at New Yorkβs influential Tribeca Film Festival this spring. Draw Me Close, a still-in-production long-form virtual reality (VR) experience, follows
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βMusic is an incredible conduit for telling complex stories,β says Catherine Bainbridge. βIt just opens us up as humans to listen.β TheΒ Rezolution PicturesΒ co-founder has seen that to be true ever since her
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Keep ReadingHeritage Minister Joly has teased us with the suggestion that some kind of βcontributionβ model will happen from OTTs; it just wonβt be an βinternet tax.β So what will it be?
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Highlights for Vancouver's 2017 DOXA documentary festival include The Road Forward, No Fixed Address, For Dear Life, and Manifesto.
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Attiya Khan (A Better Man), Joseph Clement (Integral Man), Ali Weinstein (Mermaids), and Kalina Bertin (Manic) are among the directors making their Hot Docs debuts.
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