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Issue 112

Articles from POV's Spring/Summer 2020 issue.
Mira Burt-Wintonick's Wintopia is a daughter's tribute to her filmmaker father, former POV editor and Canada's "documentary ambassador," Peter Wintonick.

Don’t Come Searching and the Art of Letting Go

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2022
Hot Docs/Interviews

Director Andrew Moir and producer Michelle Serieux discuss their film Don't Come Searching and using the COVID-19 pandemic to find the true heart of their story.

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Raymonde Provencher Tells Stories that Need to Be Told

by Judy Wolfe
April 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Raymonde Provencher is the subject of Hot Docs 2022 Focus On retrospective for her career documenting urgent human rights stories with compassion and care.

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Money Talks

by Marc Glassman Peter Raymont Andreas Mendritzki
January 4, 2021
Features/Industry

What is the future like for Canadian documentary producers? POV discusses the state of Canadian documentary with two producers, Peter Raymont and Andreas Mendritzki.

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Subtitles in Podcasts: A Sound Idea

by T.K. Matunda
August 10, 2020
Features

Radio Atlas is the “English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.” It’s like subtitled movies, if they didn’t have pictures. And it’s available online and wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Does It Have Impact?

by Jason Anderson
June 30, 2020
Features/Industry

It’s been sixteen years since the release of The Corporation introduced a wealth of exciting strategies for producing, promoting, and distributing Canadian documentaries that seek not just to enlighten viewers but give

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Agnès Varda: Emotion Pictures

by Maya Gallus
June 16, 2020
Features

Agnès Varda celebrated the beauty of the marginalized, turning her lens on the elderly, indigent, immigrants, and people of colour. Most of all, she focussed on women.

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The Forbidden Reel: Passion Over Politics

by Victor Stiff
May 31, 2020
Features/Hot Docs

-Ariel Nasr’s NFB film The Forbidden Reel shares rare excerpts from classic Afghan cinema and images of life pre-Taliban.

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Judy! Judy! Judy!

by Matthew Hays
May 30, 2020
Features/Hot Docs

Two Canadian institutions collide in Mike Hoolboom’s heartfelt Judy Rebick doc Judy Versus Capitalism

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From Kenya with Love and Fear

by Liam Lacey
May 25, 2020
Features/Hot Docs

Hot Docs' 2020 opening night film Softie by director Sam Soko and EyeSteelFilm is a portrait of photojournalist and activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi.

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The POV Interview: Mira Burt-Wintonick on ‘Wintopia’

by Marc Glassman
May 23, 2020
Festivals/Hot Docs/Interviews

Mira Burt-Wintonick discusses her new film Wintopia, a moving and personal reflection about her late father, Peter Wintonick -- filmmaker, former POV editor, and Canada's documentary ambassador.

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