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Throwbacks, Money & Speed:  Dipping into 2025’s Hot Docs Industry Conference

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The 2025 Hot Doc Industry Conference was an intimate affair where Trump's threats to freedom of speech and the 'reality' of reality TV resonated.

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Jen Markowitz on Summer Qamp and the generative power of queer joy

by Ry Pembroke
September 15, 2023
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An interview with Summer Qamp director Jen Markowitz on creating a safe space for queer youths to see themselves on film.

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Summer Qamp Review: A Bubble of Queer Joy

by Pat Mullen
September 10, 2023
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Jen Markowitz's Summer Qamp takes audiences to a summer haven and safe space for queer youths to understand, develop, and celebrate their identities.

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by Pat Mullen
July 26, 2023
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2023 TIFF Docs line-up announcement includes Mr. Dressup, Frederick Wiseman, Summer Qamp, Errol Morris, Raoul Peck, Lucy Walker, and more!

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What stories exist outside the frame? 📷 @gesila.l What stories exist outside the frame? 📷

@gesila.lightplaysociety looks at the complicated historues behind two iconic Vietnam War photos in the documentaries The Stringer and Saigon Story. 

📖 Issue 124

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📽 Stream The Stringer on Netflix and Saigon Story on TVO

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@imaginenative kicks off today with AKI! Here are @imaginenative kicks off today with AKI! Here are some of the documentary highlights at this year's festival devoted to Indigenous storytellers. 🪶

📽 On now through June 7

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🔗 Festival preview/ links to reviews in bio

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Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story leads the Canadian Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story leads the Canadian Screen Awards broadcast documentary winners! Congratulations to the team and all the winners. 🏆

🔗 Get the full list at povmagazine.com 

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Congratulations to #EndlessCookie for winning the Congratulations to #EndlessCookie for winning the Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature!

🔗 visit povmagazine.com for the full list of documentary winners. 

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The @bluemtnfilmfest kicks off its 5th edition tom The @bluemtnfilmfest kicks off its 5th edition tomorrow! Here are some of the #documentary highlights playing at this year's fest, including several Canadian premieres, music docs, and grand adventures. 🏔

📽 May 28 - 31, @bluemtnvillage 

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With purse strings tightening in Canada, must film With purse strings tightening in Canada, must filmmakers look south or to Medici-style patrons to fund their docs?

@adambenzine looks at the Canadian situation in the first of our three-part survey in the state of documentary. 

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📷 Speechless/ Elad Winkler

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WHAT WILL I BECOME? offers a powerful exploration WHAT WILL I BECOME? offers a powerful exploration of trans boyhood and conversations about mental health. ✨️ 

We chatted with directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos ahead of the film's Canadian premiere at @insideoutfestival. 

📽 in-theatre: May 30; also online

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#whatwillibecome #Documentary #film #InsideOut #mentalhealth
@insideoutfestival kicks off today with a great li @insideoutfestival kicks off today with a great line up of docs including #Antidiva, which screens May 23.

🔗 Get the full rundown of doc highlights at the fest at POV as #InsideOut runs today through May 31. 🌈

#film #festivals #Toronto
Reporting from la Croisette, here are all the #Can Reporting from la Croisette, here are all the #Cannes docs that @filmfest_ca has been reviewing from the fest. 🌴

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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