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93-year-old Ghanaian filmmaker Chris Hesse holds up a reel of film and is pointing at the label and smiling. He has grey hair and is wearing a multicolour patterned shirt.

TIFF Docs Line-up Boasts Oscar Winners, World Premieres, and Canadian Perspectives

by Pat Mullen
August 6, 2025August 11, 2025
Features/TIFF

TIFF Docs line-up includes Ben Proudfoot, Laura Poitras, Jimmy Chin, Chai Vasarhelyi, Peter Mettler, Min Sook Lee, and a focus on truth-tellers.

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DOC’s Julian Carrington Steps into Executive Director Role at Key Moment

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
June 12, 2025
Industry/Interviews

An interview with Julian Carrington, the new executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada, on the path ahead for the advocacy group.

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Documentary Organization of Canada Expands Board of Directors

by Pat Mullen
June 9, 2022
Industry

The Documentary Organization of Canada updates its board of directors and adds four new At Large appointments to better represent its membership.

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The Slow Rise of Asian Canadian Docs

by Allan Tong
November 23, 2017September 2, 2021
Essays/Features

At a Toronto variety store, amid racks of candy, lottery tickets and cigarettes, a Korean couple battles their Canadian-born children. The father demands that his kids finish school, get married and start

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POV Profile: Min Sook Lee

by Jonas Jacobs
May 1, 2016December 26, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

Migrant Dreams director Min Sook Lee wants audiences to reimagine the way they see labour and migrant work in Canada.

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Review: ‘Migrant Dreams’

by Jonas Jacobs
April 28, 2016December 28, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

Min Sook Lee's Migrant Dreams operates in the classic model of activist documentary filmmaking.

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See Evil, Hear Evil and Report Evil

by Adam Nayman
November 20, 2012February 27, 2022
Features

Why Poverty?, an international crossmedia initiative that’s both a spiritual sequel to 2007’s successful Why Democracy? campaign and a freestanding initiative

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