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

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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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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. 🏆

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

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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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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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@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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An archival image of rocker Carole Pope seated in a backwards folding chair. She is wearing a black leather jumpsuit and boots. This is a cover for POV issue #125 with the letters POV in bright pink and the subtitle The Antidiva in yellow.

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

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