From Fiddle Dee Dee to Ryan to Amma, animation inspires innovation in documentary.
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In the Oscar-winning Ryan, Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin sit together in a computer-generated cafeteria as they go over Larkin’s past: his artistic achievements, his loves, his brief moments of recognition.
Keep ReadingPOV presents Canada's "Documentary Essentials": a starter guide of ten short docs and ten features that should help readers explore all the non-fiction that this country had to offer.
Keep ReadingVeteran writer and filmmaker Cole analyzes what makes a doc story work and offers a manifesto on how to make one yourself.
Keep ReadingAnimated documentary should not be thought of as a strange hybrid at the margins, but one of the central forms of documentary film since its inception.
Keep ReadingAnimator Ryan Larkin could tell a funny story or read you a poem, but then raise his voice in a flash of anger if he felt you were asking too pushy a
Keep ReadingAh, memories of Oscar, from Audrey Hepburn hiking up her dress to show NFB director Eunice Macaulay her outrageously high heels, to Oscar winning NFB animators, up on the big stage, frozen
Keep Reading2004 marked the end of an era for the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). After 28 years, the festival is going annual. Why depart from the successful alternating year format? Well, there
Keep ReadingSometimes a picture burns a hole in your head, burrows into your brain and takes up residence. Like the face of the title character from the new digitally animated 3D short, Ryan.
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