Peter Wintonick was interviewed at great length by Pepita Ferrari for her acclaimed 2008 National Film Board feature Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary.
Keep ReadingDirector Shannon Walsh reflects on bringing the social-change aspect of documentary into the process behind the camera.
Keep ReadingCanadian film funding received further consideration as it pertains to independent documentaries and the big public spenders like CBC and the NFB.
Keep ReadingIf you were to make a documentary about the life of Bonnie Sherr Klein, you might begin with the old episodes of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.
Keep ReadingIn Chi, Anne Wheeler documents the ups and downs of the cancer treatments that Babz Chula finds excruciating but accepts with hope.
Keep ReadingOne approaches the release of Sarah Polley’s highly anticipated feature documentary about her family, Stories We Tell, with a mixture of relief and trepidation.
Keep ReadingPOV editor Marc Glassman and Kevin McMahon debate the latter's revolutionary suggestion that documentary is Canada's national art form.
Keep ReadingPink Ribbons, Inc. challenges us to ask harder questions, to be skeptical, rather than just say what’s the harm in raising money for breast cancer research?
Keep ReadingJennifer Baichwal’s latest documentary, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is inspired by Margaret Atwood’s 2008 fascinating Massey Lecture and book of the same name.
Keep ReadingWorld renowned Canadian documentary film producer Tom Daly died in Montreal on September 18, 2011, aged 93, after a long illness.
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