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DOXA Documentary Festival runs April 30 to May 10

Nanook of the North

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Faking It: Mockumentaries Tell the Truth — or Do They?

by Winnie Wang
February 9, 2026
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How mockumentaries like The Dirties, Punishment Park, and The Clowns play with our suspension of disbelief and the line between fiction and non-fiction.

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Our Complicated Romance with the North

by Vivian Belik
June 27, 2017October 21, 2024
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It’s a frigid February evening in Whitehorse when Tanya Tagaq takes the stage. She’s in a black dress and still buzzing from her recent Polaris Prize win. “I just want to tell the children

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Canada and the Documentary

by Marc Glassman
April 7, 2017November 28, 2021
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If you want to understand the Canadian psyche, you have to watch Canadian documentaries.

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Hybrid Film

by Zoë Robertson
April 19, 2016December 28, 2021
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Hybrid film draws on the stylistic and narrative traditions of both documentary and fiction film to varying degrees.

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The new debate: Is the documentary our national art form?

by Marc Glassman Kevin McMahon
September 11, 2012March 14, 2022
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POV editor Marc Glassman and Kevin McMahon debate the latter's revolutionary suggestion that documentary is Canada's national art form.

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Documentary Stories

by Janis Cole
September 1, 2008April 18, 2022
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Veteran writer and filmmaker Cole analyzes what makes a doc story work and offers a manifesto on how to make one yourself.

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