The POV team marks 30 years of Hot Docs by looking back at some of the many names and documentaries that defined the festival.
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In 1886, a U.S. Supreme Court decision held that corporations were entitled to the same rights and protections enjoyed by flesh-and-blood individuals. Thanks to this kind of legal fancy footwork, which shielded
Keep Reading"It took nothing more than a kitchen table chat over a bottle of scotch for us to decide to proceed together on the film that would become Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and
Keep ReadingSurviving Progress opens with an arresting series of images: a pair of chimpanzees puzzling over the correct placement of two wooden blocks in a white-walled laboratory.
Keep ReadingHow far has documentary film production come in the last 20 years since the landmark box office success of Michael Moore’s Roger & Me?
Keep ReadingThe Corporation paid Telefilm back in full and, unlike most Canadian dramas, is actually making a profit for the good citizens of Canada.
Keep ReadingMany of us belong to that category of citizens poetically described as the “walking worried.” (Adelphia Communications: $2.5 billion bankruptcy.) We are those who realize that things have gone awry, but are
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