Screening Nature and Nation: The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974 by Michael D. Clemens offers a thorough study of key NFB films and their relationship to environmentalism in Canada.
Keep ReadingCanadian filmmaker Terence Macartney-Filgate dies at age 97 following a distinguished and influential career in documentary.
Keep ReadingMary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again is a short documentary by Courtney Montour that honours the legacy of the Mohawk activist.
Keep ReadingElle-Máijá Tailfeathers' acclaimed documentary Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is now available to stream for free from the National Film Board of Canada.
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Keep ReadingNow streaming from the NFB, Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams' Someone Like Me observes the plight of Drake, a gay Ugandan seeking a new life in Canada, and the community network
Keep ReadingPerfecting the Art of Longing is Kitra Cahana's Hot Docs award winning portrait of her family's ability to stay connected with her father when the prolonged isolation of COVID forced them apart.
Keep ReadingNow streaming from the NFB, The Magnitude of All Things is a powerful film that considers climate change through an unexpected and provocative lens: grief.
Keep ReadingRaymonde Provencher is the subject of Hot Docs 2022 Focus On retrospective for her career documenting urgent human rights stories with compassion and care.
Keep ReadingWhite Noise, now streaming for free from the National Film Board of Canada, is Simon Beaulieu's unnerving essay film about the end of the world.
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