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For Your Consideration: Hamnet in all categories including Best Picture.

Issue 67

The Sicko Debate: Citizen Truth

by Peter Wintonick
October 1, 2008May 9, 2022
Features

The debate that documentaries engender by helping us to understand media manipulation is legitimate. The question remains, who owns the truth?

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Pointed View: Lovely Framing and Lorne Greene’s Baritone

by Oliver Hockenhull
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Is the acclaimed Manufactured Landscapes coolly representative of a pervasive yet unacknowledged nihilism in documentary?

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High Definition for Dummies

by Richard Stringer
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Industry

Now HD product has a rapidly growing presence in broadcast television. There is more HD programming, TVs are bigger, designed for HD.

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The Versioning of History

by Matthew Hays
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

When the American “pro-Israeli” version of The Six Day War was broadcast in Canada, POV asks, who controls history in this country?

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Obscene: Barney Rosset Vs Our Way of Life

by Andrew McIntosh
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Did Barney Rosset the founder of Grove Press, which published Candy, Henry Miller, The Story of O, William Burroughs and Victorian erotica, make obscene books? Or masterpieces?

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A Promise to the Dead

by Adam Nayman
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Distinguished writer Ariel Dorfman’s (Death and the Maiden) journeys from Chile to the US inspired Peter Raymont’s new doc feature. Nayman observes an inspiring tale.

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Les Raquetteurs and the birth of modern Quebec cinema

by Andre Loiselle
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

In an exclusive collaboration with TIFF, POV is pleased to publish an excerpt from Loiselle’s new book on Michel Brault.

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Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg”

by Guy Maddin
October 1, 2007May 9, 2022
Features

Internationally acclaimed auteur Guy Maddin shares his impressions of a city that has shaped his life and inspired his first doc, My Winnipeg.

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The Sicko Debate: A Healthy Skepticism

by Peter Wintonick Debbie Melnyk Rick Caine
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Is Michael Moore a raving propagandist or a left-wing saviour? Filmmakers Peter Wintonick (Manufacturing Consent) and Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk (Manufacturing Dissent) offer their takes.

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Curiosity, driving trucks, and a dash of Roland Barthes: A POV interview with Paul Jay

by Marc Glassman Barri Cohen
October 1, 2007July 14, 2025
Interviews

"I’ve never thought of what I do as a career. Maybe from the outside it looks like a career, but it was mostly a series of accidents," says Paul Jay.

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Andrea Werhun and @nicobazuin tell us about changi Andrea Werhun and @nicobazuin tell us about changing the narrative on sex work and being maximalists with colour in #ModernWhore. 💋

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🔗: In Bio
📽: U.S. premiere @psfilmfest; coming soon to theatres

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Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a  Hollywood remake. Kate Hudson and director Craig Brewer tell us about reimagining the doc as a movie musical!

🔗: in bio
📽: in theatres Dec. 25
📽: rent the doc on Vimeo

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How have documentaries captured political divides How have documentaries captured political divides since Oct. 7? @dimwig surveys the field of films about Palestine and Israel.

📖: POV 123
🔗: In bio
📽: Coexistence, My Ass! (Now on TVO)

#Documentary #film #politics #coexistencemyass #nootherland
Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these Every celebrity (and "celebrity") has a doc these days, so what does it mean for the field?

@_rachelkh looks at films about Pee-Wee Herman, Pamela Anderson, and Elvis Presley to consider some dos and don'ts of the celebrity doc.

🔗: in profile
📖: Issue 124

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Oscar shortlists! 🥁🥁🥁 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM “ Oscar shortlists! 🥁🥁🥁

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

“The Alabama Solution”
“Apocalypse in the Tropics”
“Coexistence, My Ass!”
“Come See Me in the Good Light”
“Cover-Up”
“Cutting through Rocks”
“Folktales”
“Holding Liat”
“Mr. Nobody against Putin”
“Mistress Dispeller”
“My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow”
“The Perfect Neighbor”
“Seeds”
“2000 Meters to Andriivka”
“Yanuni” 

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

“All the Empty Rooms”
“All the Walls Came Down”
“Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud”
“Bad Hostage”
“Cashing Out”
“Chasing Time”
“Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”” 
“Classroom 4”
“The Devil Is Busy”
“Heartbeat”
“Last Days on Lake Trinity”
“On Healing Land, Birds Perch”
“Perfectly a Strangeness”
“Rovina’s Choice”
“We Were the Scenery”

Congrats to all the shortlisted docs! 
#Oscars #Documentary
#awardseason #film #movies
In theatres this weekend, @cuttingthroughrocks_fil In theatres this weekend, @cuttingthroughrocks_film finds a true hero in politician Sara Shahverdi. 💪

📽: @tiff_net 
🔗: in bio
📝: @bgos923 

#CuttingThroughRocks #documentary #film #moviereview
And we have Sundance docs! 📷: Nuisance Bear 🔗: And we have Sundance docs!

📷: Nuisance Bear 

🔗: in bio

#Sundance #Sundance26 #documentary #movies #film
How did they create the magic of #TheTaleOfSilyan? How did they create the magic of #TheTaleOfSilyan? 🦢

Learn more in our interview with director Tamara Kotevska and cinematographer Jean Dakar. Our writers can it one of the best films of 2025!

🔗: in bio. 
📽: now in theatres!

#Documentary #filmmaking #birds #film #movies
POV Wrapped! A salute to the best documentaries of POV Wrapped! A salute to the best documentaries of 2025. 🥳

This year, @marc.glassman.1 and @mullenpat offer a combined top ten list, plus honourable mentions. 

Read the full story at POV! (Link in bio.)

What are your top docs of 2025?
#Documentary #movies #bestof2025 #moviereview #film #2025wrapped
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