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Liz Garbus

Is Love Elemental?

by Jason Gorber
July 20, 2022August 8, 2022
Essays

Elements and archives collide in Fire of Love, Jane, and Becoming Cousteau.

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The Top Docs About Black Women Artists

by Gesilayefa Azorbo
June 20, 2022
Features

Beba, Beyoncé's Homecoming, Miss Sharon Jones, 20 Feet from Stardom, What Happened, Miss Simon?, and Step are among a wave of docs celebrating Black excellence by women in the arts.

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A Deep Dive with Liz Garbus and the World of Becoming Cousteau

by Jason Gorber
October 22, 2021
Interviews

An interview with Liz Garbus about her underwater archival odyssey Becoming Cousteau and the extraordinary life world of Jacques Cousteau.

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TIFF Docs Line-Up to Open with Stanley Nelson’s ‘Attica’

by Pat Mullen
August 4, 2021August 9, 2021
Festivals/TIFF

Festival announces 2021 TIFF Docs line-up.

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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Brings Another Story to Light

by Pat Mullen
June 21, 2021July 28, 2021
Interviews

Last summer, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark took audiences on a hunt for a killer. Adapting the book, work, and dogged curiosity sparked of cold case sleuth Michelle McNamara, I’ll Ge

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All In: The Fight for Democracy is brilliant advocacy cinema.

by Marc Glassman
September 16, 2020August 26, 2021
Reviews

All In: The Fight for Democracy is a brilliant piece of advocacy cinema. If you aren’t outraged before you see this doc, you certainly will be when it’s finished.

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Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés Go ‘All In’ Fighting for Democracy with Stacey Abrams

by Pat Mullen
September 9, 2020August 14, 2021
Interviews

Directors Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés discuss their new film All In: The Fight for Democracy, which features Stacey Abrams and the history of voter suppression.

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Netflix Reclaims Its True Crime Credence with ‘The Innocence Files’

by Pat Mullen
April 15, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Netflix reclaims its true crime credence with The Innocence Files. After the hugely entertaining, but highly flawed and ethically dubious, quarantine sensation of Tiger King comes this nine-part feat of investigative rigour. The Innocence Files admittedly lacks the

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Liz Garbus and Trying to Print All the News that Fits

by Maurie Alioff
May 6, 2018August 24, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

One of the highlights of Hot Docs 2018 was the International Premiere of director-producer’s Liz Garbus’s The Fourth Estate, an ambitious exploration of The New York Times as the publication’s staff grapples

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Docs at Sundance

by Jason Gorber
January 29, 2016January 2, 2022
Sundance

Report on the documentaries at Sundance 2016 including Nothing Left Unsaid, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, and Tickled.

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If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽

In an new essay, @silafaen looks at documentaries like #TheRealityOfHope that are produced in the VR world and docs made in the gaming space like #GrandTheftHamlet to consider a new frontier for non-fiction!

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Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪

Winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at @hotdocs_.

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Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, fo Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, for supporting the arts in our community! Our OAC grant has allowed us to publish two print issues annually and year-round online stories covering many film festivals and documentary filmmakers in Ontario and across Canada! 🙏 #thankful #ONarts #documentary #magazines
Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfes Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfest! 📽

Some POV approved highlights include:
- Come See Me in the Good Light 😭
- Mistress Dispeller ♥️♥️♥️
- Shelf Life 🧀
- Front Row 🩰

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The festival runs May 29 - June 1! #documentary #BMFM2025 #BlueMountain #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #MistressDispeller #FrontRow #movies #film
More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man wins inaugural Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Award at Cannes in new collaboration between @goldenglobes and @artemisrisingfoundation. What doc do you think would have won last year?🏆 #documentary #Cannes #TheSixBillionDollarMan #film #movies
🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, 🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, one of the year's top docs, for its Toronto premiere at @insideoutfestival on Saturday, May 24 at TIFF Lightbox. 

The hit documentary about students putting their voices to good use in the national championships for public speaking.

 🎟️🎟️ Want to attend the in-theatre screening of Speak at Inside Out? POV has five pairs of tickets to give away to readers. 

👉All you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

What film is the opening night gala of Inside Out 2025?

a) Cactus Pears
b) Baby
c) Sauna
d) Outerlands

Need a hint? Check out the festival lineup!

📨 Email your answer to info@povmagazine.com with the subject Inside Out.

Contest closes May 21 at noon EST.
Inside Out runs May 23 to June 1.

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The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good L The audience has spoken! Come See Me in the Good Light wins @hotdocs_ Audience Award after holding the #1 spot all festival, while Endless Cookie wins Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Film. 🗳

Your top five:
1. Come See Me in the Good Light
2. Endless Cookie
3. Antidote
4. Coexistence, My Ass!
5. Saints and Warriors

Visit POV for the full top 20! (Link in stories.)
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Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing? Here Last day of @hotdocs_! What are you seeing?

Here are some recent highlights from our team:
1. Industry - @barri.cohen offers our first dispatch 📋
2. The Longer You Bleed - @mullenpat on Made in Exile highlight 🇺🇦
3. I, Poppy - @filmfest_ca on Best International Feature winner 🏆 
4. They're Here - @smallmind1978 on doc about strange visitors 🛸
5. The Secret Lives of My Three Men - @bgos923 reviews hybrid highlight 🎭
6. I Dreamed His Name - Alexander Mooney looks at a personal journey 🇨🇴
7. Ai Weiwei's Turandot - @marc.glassman on an artist in times of war and COVID 😷
8. Widow Champion - @susangcole looks at sisters in a struggle 🙋‍♀️
9. Circusboy is a Wisemanesque view of the big top 🎪
10. Higher than Acidic Clouds defies censors 🇮🇷

🔗: visit POVmagazine.com for reviews of nearly every feature at the fest!

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