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Issue 114

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is a game-changer for community-based filmmaking. Plus a first look at Hot Docs and DOXA hits, and a deep dive on the “Netflix formula” with alternatives for doc fans. Subscribe today!

Freeze Frame: Celebrating Uvagut TV

by Marc Glassman
January 10, 2022
Features/Photography

Celebrating Uvagut TV, the all-Inuktut station marks the first television station in Canada to broadcast entirely in an Indigenous language.

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Tiger Kings and Wretched Things

by Ezra Winton
January 3, 2022January 8, 2022
Essays

Netflix has arguably mastered a formula for documentary series with hits like Tiger King, but will the equation hold in the long run?

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Public Art Programming During COVID

by Laurence Butet-Roch
November 2, 2021
Festivals/Photography

Can the adaptations forced by the COVID-19 pandemic inspire festivals to reimagine the relationship between artistic programming and public space?

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Black Trailblazers

by Courtney Small
October 6, 2021
Essays/Features

How Selwyn Jacob, Sylvia D. Hamilton, and Sam Pollard broke barriers in documentary production and continue to fight for change in the film industry.

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Documenting the Pandemic

by Marc Glassman Pat Mullen
September 27, 2021May 10, 2022
Features/Industry

How have Canadian filmmakers responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and captured stories from this historic time? A survey with filmmakers Yung Chang, Matt Gallagher, Ngardy Conteh George, and the NFB's project The

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Absurd! Comic! Docu-Series?

by Daniel Glassman
July 29, 2021August 10, 2021
Essays/Features

Painting with John, How To with John Wilson, and All Gas No Brakes reinvent (documentary?) comedy.

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Observing the Observers: How I Judged Documentaries and Learned to Teach None

by Alexandra Juhasz
June 25, 2021August 23, 2021
Features

Since 2017, I have had the distinct pleasure of serving as the chair of a preliminary judging committee for the Peabody Awards in broadcasting and digital media. Along with two graduate students

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Policy Matters: Ring the (inter)Net

by Barri Cohen
May 25, 2021August 9, 2021
Industry

Canadian Hertiage’s Bill C-10 sets forth amendments to the Broadcasting Act, following a recommendation by the Yale Report to tackle the dominance of tech giants in Canadian screen culture. The centrepiece is

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The Gig Economy

by Justine Smith
May 6, 2021August 9, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

Behind your favourite app is an army of invisible workers. Drivers and delivery services ensure we get our food on time and that we’re never late for a meeting. In countries worldwide,

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Mystic River: Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2021September 5, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago is an animated essay that navigates territories real and imagined while interrogating the mythology and history of Quebec.

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