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Never Look Away Review: Courage Under Fire

by Pat Mullen
January 18, 2024
Festivals/Reviews

Lucy Lawless makes a terrific directorial debut with Never Look Away a portrait of courageous cameraperson Margaret Moth.

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Bombshell Documentary Challenges Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous Identity

by Pat Mullen
October 29, 2023
Features

An investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate, "Making an Icon", challenge's Buffy Sainte-Marie's claims of Indigenous identity

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Breaking Social Review: When Leaders Fail the Public Trust

by Pat Mullen
October 10, 2023
Reviews

Fredrik Gertten examines a web of connected social inequalities in Breaking Social, and the writers and protesters drawing attention to abuses of power.

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Trained to See – Three Women and the War Review: Bearing Witness to History

by Emma Badame
May 7, 2023
Hot Docs/Reviews

Trained to See – Three Women and the War sees Luzia Schmid spotlight three women journalists who broke the glass ceiling during WWII.

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Trained to See—Three Women and the War Review: Women’s Perspectives During WWII

by Marc Glassman
May 7, 2023June 11, 2024
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Trained to See—Three Women and the War offers unique insights into World War II via journalists Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller and Margaret Bourke-White

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The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain Review: A Novel Noggin

by Liam Lacey
May 3, 2023
Hot Docs/Reviews

Michelle Shephard investigates the strange case behind the theft of one of history's greatest minds, and the story behind the story, in The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain.

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Cynara Puts the Justice System on Trial

by Courtney Small
April 26, 2023October 21, 2023
Features/Hot Docs

Sherien Barsoum's documentary Cynara investigates the role of prejudice in a Toronto mother’s wrongful conviction for her daughter's murder.

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Ithaka Review: The Fight for Assange and for the Free Press

by Pat Mullen
March 19, 2023
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Ithaka chronicles the campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as his father John Shipton and fiancée Stella Morris remind audiences of the implications for the free press at stake in their

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20 Days in Mariupol Captures History from the Front Lines

by Jason Gorber
January 27, 2023July 20, 2023
Interviews/Sundance

20 Days in Mariupol director Mstyslav Chernov urgently captures Ukraine's unfolding war.

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Bad Press Review: Riveting Doc Fights for Independent Media

by Pat Mullen
January 27, 2023September 21, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler chronicle the fight for a free and independent press in Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Bad Press.

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