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Issue 114 - Page 2

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!

The Politics of Identity

by Matthew Hays
May 3, 2021June 13, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Someone Like Me and One of Ours intimately confront identity and belonging.

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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini Brings Empathy to an Opioid Crisis

by Kelly Boutsalis
May 1, 2021March 3, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy weaves together a broad portrait of the impact of settler colonialism on Blackfoot people, through firsthand experiences of people with substance use disorder, and the

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Black Beauty and Desire

by Gesilayefa Azorbo
April 30, 2021August 9, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

Jennifer Holness's Subjects of Desire celebrates Blackness while exploring how the beauty industry shapes images of Black women.

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The Human Factor: Ann Shin’s A.rtificial I.mmortality

by Jason Gorber
April 28, 2021October 3, 2023
Features/Hot Docs/Interviews

It was the late, great Freddie Mercury who famously asked, “Who wants to live forever?” Ann Shin’s A.rtificial I.mmortality provocatively tries to answer this quandary and asks questions of her own.

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"Without Debbie, there wouldn't be a Hot Docs." W "Without Debbie, there wouldn't be a Hot Docs."

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