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Issue 74

Policy Matters: Their Finest Hour on Bended Knee

by Barri Cohen
April 1, 2009April 23, 2022
Industry

What a time it’s been for private Canadian broadcasters. Here they are, in the midst of a mini depression, on the ropes from falling ad revenue, and swimming in debt.

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Pointed View: Mark Peranson’s “Waiting for Sancho”

by Adam Nayman
April 1, 2009April 20, 2022
Features

Mark Peranson’s Waiting for Sancho absolutely belongs in the pages of a Canadian magazine attuned to documentary and independent cinema and its absence from this year’s Hot Docs lineup is worth noting.

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RiP: The Making of a Manifesto

by Matthew Hays
April 1, 2009April 20, 2022
Features

Montreal-based filmmaker Brett Gaylor talks about creating his documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto about copyright and the digital revolution.

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National Film Board: On the Edge

by Ken Eisner
April 1, 2009April 23, 2022
Features

The NFB is central to B.C.’s indie doc sector. Eisner investigates the Board’s accomplishments and goals in Vancouver and beyond.

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Filming a Blank Slate

by Alison Rose
April 1, 2009April 15, 2022
Features

In Love at the Twilight Motel, Alison Rose discovers what it's like to film a doc about a “by the hour” motel.

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Creating “Capturing Reality”

by Pepita Ferrari
April 1, 2009April 23, 2022
Features

Capturing Reality about the art of the documentary, is very much an homage to the NFB as well. Ferrari takes us through her memories of the films and filmmakers she interviewed for

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Full Circle: Alanis Obomsawin Then and Now

by Maurie Alioff
April 1, 2009April 9, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

At 76, Alanis Obomsawin is circling back to her early focus on language, education, and children. “I want to make a series of short children’s films,” she tells me.

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The POV Interview: Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin

by Marc Glassman
April 1, 2009January 18, 2022
Interviews

An in-depth interview with Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of Montreal's EyeSteelFilm.

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The Universe is Electric

by Adam Nayman
April 1, 2009April 23, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier discuss their documentary Act of God, which opens the 2009 Hot Docs Film Festival.

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Seeing with Detective Antoine

by Allan Tong
April 1, 2009April 23, 2022
Features

"I was in front of a tremendous force of life, like a little, strong and thin gold shaft of wheat, who shines without any doubts," Laura Bari says of Antoine.

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