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A woman wearing a black sweatshirt and jeans stands on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed and leans up onto the top bunk.

Holloway Review: An Exercise in Collective Healing

by Susan G. Cole
April 27, 2025
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Several women who were former inmates at Holloway return to the prison that housed them and heal their collective trauma.

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A close-up shot of a woman standing on the other side of a wire fence. She is wearing a burgundy winter jacket and eyeglasses, looking at what is on the other side of the fence.

Walls – Akinni Inuk Review: Empathy for Life

by Pat Mullen
April 26, 2025
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Filmmaker Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg befriends Ruth, a Greelandic woman serving an indeterminate prison sentence, in Walls – Akinni Inuk.

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Union Director Brett Story in Profile

by Susan G. Cole
November 7, 2024January 9, 2025
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Filmmaker Brett Story on her documentaries Union, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Hottest August, Land of Destiny, and what inspires her.

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The Freedom of Fierro Review: A Story of Isolation

by Pat Mullen
September 14, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

The Freedom of Fierro follows César Fierro's fight for freedom as it undergoes a bittersweet breakthrough.

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Rebel Nun Shares Sister Helen Prejean’s Ongoing Fight Against Capital Punishment

by Pat Mullen
June 5, 2024June 9, 2024
Features/Interviews

An interview with Rebel Nun star Sister Helen Prejean and director Dominic Sivyer about a decades' long quest to abolish the death penalty.

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On Daughters, Dads, and Docs

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2024
Features/Hot Docs/Interviews

An interview with Daughters directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton about bringing the Date with Dad program to screen in their moving film.

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The Strike Review: Striking against the worst prison

by Liam Lacey
April 28, 2024
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A hunger strike at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison gives America's enthusiasm for punitive incarceration a hard look.

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Daughters Review: An Exceptional Dance of Truth and Circumstance

by Jason Gorber
January 26, 2024April 26, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Sundance Audience Award winner Daughters observes daughters of incarcerated individuals as they get ready to dance with their fathers.

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Debra Granik on Conbody VS Everybody and the Hunger to Reform

by Pat Mullen
January 19, 2024March 2, 2024
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An interview with Debra Granik about Conbody VS Everybody and prison reform.

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Coldwater Kitchen Review: Reform on the Menu

by Pat Mullen
October 30, 2023
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Coldwater Kitchen goes inside a Michigan correctional facility to observe a culinary program with reform on the menu.

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Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weeken Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weekend! 🏆

This year's nominees are:
🫏 perfectly a strangeness
🩺 The Devil Is Busy
📷 All the Empty Rooms
🪧 Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
📹 Armed With Only a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

🔗: link to review in bio

📽: TIFF; But also streaming! All the Empty Rooms is on Netflix and Seemed with Only a Camera, The Devil Is Busy, and perfectly a strangeness are in Crave. 

#shorts  #film #movies #Oscars #donkeys
How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard him before?

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert film editor and executive producer Jonathan Redmon tells us about re-mastering the King himself. 🤴 

🔗: in bio
📽: in theatres Feb. 20

#Elvis #elvispresley #movies #film #Documentary
Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary open Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary opening wide, and it's #EPiC!

Don't miss EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Baz Luhrmann's maximalist music doc that had TIFFgoers dancing in the theatre. 

📽: IMAX theatres Feb. 20; regular cinemas next week. 
🔗: in bio

#Elvis #elvispresley #Documentary #bazluhrmann
RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true master RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true masters. 🕯

In films like Titicut Follies,  National Gallery, In Jackson Heights, and Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, his observational eye and appreciation for institutional intricacies (and how to critique them) inspired us to savour every second of a film.  May #Wisemanesque films stand the test of time! 

#FrederickWiseman #Documentary #film #rip
First they came for the books. 📚 Festival favouri First they came for the books. 📚

Festival favourite #AnAmericanPastoral observes a snapshot of the culture wars and radicalized politics. Now streaming!

🔗: in bio
📽: Apple

#film #documentary #movies #moviereview
Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line betwe Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line between mockumentary, Jackass, and WTF, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is a truly Canadian original. 

🔗: in bio
📽: now in theatres

#nirvanna #movies #moviereview #film #mockumentary
And the award for teacher of the year goes to... 🥁 And the award for teacher of the year goes to... 🥁🥁🥁

Catch a courageous story to protect young minds from Russia's regime in Oscar nominee @mr.nobodyagainstputin.

🔗: in bio
📽: now in theatres

#mrnobodyagainstputin #Documentary #film #movies #moviereview
Well, it looks like Melania won't be our next cove Well, it looks like Melania won't be our next cover girl. 🤷

🔗: in bio
📽: coming to Prime Video

#Melania #documentary #film #movies #moviereview
Whether you sing #HakunaMatata or #HakuchaMunyata, Whether you sing #HakunaMatata or #HakuchaMunyata, @runasimi.doc reminds us that accessible cinema ain't no passing craze. 

📽: Catch it tonight at @hotdocs_ #DocSoup series!

🔗: in bio

#Documentary #moviereview
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