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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, 2007May 12, 2022
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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If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽

In an new essay, @silafaen looks at documentaries like #TheRealityOfHope that are produced in the VR world and docs made in the gaming space like #GrandTheftHamlet to consider a new frontier for non-fiction!

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Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪

Winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at @hotdocs_.

#EndlessCookie #movies #dogs #film #animation #documentary #Shamattawa
Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, fo Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, for supporting the arts in our community! Our OAC grant has allowed us to publish two print issues annually and year-round online stories covering many film festivals and documentary filmmakers in Ontario and across Canada! 🙏 #thankful #ONarts #documentary #magazines
Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfes Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfest! 📽

Some POV approved highlights include:
- Come See Me in the Good Light 😭
- Mistress Dispeller ♥️♥️♥️
- Shelf Life 🧀
- Front Row 🩰

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The festival runs May 29 - June 1! #documentary #BMFM2025 #BlueMountain #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #MistressDispeller #FrontRow #movies #film
More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man wins inaugural Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Award at Cannes in new collaboration between @goldenglobes and @artemisrisingfoundation. What doc do you think would have won last year?🏆 #documentary #Cannes #TheSixBillionDollarMan #film #movies
🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, 🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, one of the year's top docs, for its Toronto premiere at @insideoutfestival on Saturday, May 24 at TIFF Lightbox. 

The hit documentary about students putting their voices to good use in the national championships for public speaking.

 🎟️🎟️ Want to attend the in-theatre screening of Speak at Inside Out? POV has five pairs of tickets to give away to readers. 

👉All you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

What film is the opening night gala of Inside Out 2025?

a) Cactus Pears
b) Baby
c) Sauna
d) Outerlands

Need a hint? Check out the festival lineup!

📨 Email your answer to info@povmagazine.com with the subject Inside Out.

Contest closes May 21 at noon EST.
Inside Out runs May 23 to June 1.

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The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good L The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good Light wins @hotdocs_ Audience Award after holding the #1 spot all festival, while Endless Cookie wins Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Film. 🗳

Your top five:
1. Come See Me in the Good Light
2. Endless Cookie
3. Antidote
4. Coexistence, My Ass!
5. Saints and Warriors

Visit POV for the full top 20! (Link in stories.)
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Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing? Here Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing?

Here are some recent highlights from our team:
1. Industry - @barri.cohen offers our first dispatch 📋
2. The Longer You Bleed - @mullenpat on Made in Exile highlight 🇺🇦
3. I, Poppy - @filmfest_ca on Best International Feature winner 🏆 
4. They're Here - @smallmind1978 on doc about strange visitors 🛸
5. The Secret Lives of My Three Men - @bgos923 reviews hybrid highlight 🎭
6. I Dreamed His Name - Alexander Mooney looks at a personal journey 🇨🇴
7. Ai Weiwei's Turandot - @marc.glassman on an artist in times of war and COVID 😷
8. Widow Champion - @susangcole looks at sisters in a struggle 🙋‍♀️
9. Circusboy is a Wisemanesque view of the big top 🎪
10. Higher than Acidic Clouds defies censors 🇮🇷

🔗: visit POVmagazine.com for reviews of nearly every feature at the fest!

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