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Toronto’s Daniel Roher Wins Doc Oscar

by Pat Mullen
March 13, 2023
Features

Toronto filmmaker Daniel Roher wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Navalny, about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

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All That Breathes Tops Cinema Eye Honors Winners

by Pat Mullen
January 13, 2023
Industry

The Cinema Eye Honors winners include All That Breathes, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and Nuisance Bear.

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9to5: The Story of a Movement Review: Brewing Change Instead of Coffee

by Pat Mullen
November 12, 2020August 25, 2021
Festivals/Reviews

9to5: Story of a Movement is a fiery feminist essay about equality and labour—a fitting mark for Reichert to leave in a career devoted to giving voice to women and unions alike.

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The Best International Documentaries of 2019

by Pat Mullen
December 26, 2019August 29, 2021
Features

POV's picks for the best international docs of 2019 include One Child Nation, American Factory, For Sama, Honeyland, Apollo 11, Desert One, Rolling Thunder Revue, and more!

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Review: ‘American Factory’

by Pat Mullen
April 28, 2019August 18, 2021
Festivals/Hot Docs/Reviews

Is there any hope left for the American dream? The prospects for the land of the free look pretty dire in the outstanding American Factory. The doc offers an immersive and penetrating

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Changing the Conversation About Festivals

by Marc Glassman
April 26, 2019May 14, 2022
Hot Docs

Hot Docs has become like TIFF: it’s so great that there’s too much to see. 251 films? You can’t see them all.

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Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weeken Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weekend! 🏆

This year's nominees are:
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🩺 The Devil Is Busy
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🪧 Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
📹 Armed With Only a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

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How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard him before?

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert film editor and executive producer Jonathan Redmon tells us about re-mastering the King himself. 🤴 

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Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary open Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary opening wide, and it's #EPiC!

Don't miss EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Baz Luhrmann's maximalist music doc that had TIFFgoers dancing in the theatre. 

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RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true master RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true masters. 🕯

In films like Titicut Follies,  National Gallery, In Jackson Heights, and Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, his observational eye and appreciation for institutional intricacies (and how to critique them) inspired us to savour every second of a film.  May #Wisemanesque films stand the test of time! 

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First they came for the books. 📚 Festival favouri First they came for the books. 📚

Festival favourite #AnAmericanPastoral observes a snapshot of the culture wars and radicalized politics. Now streaming!

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