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