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Filmmaker Shelley Saywell sits on stone steps in a garden. She is a white woman with shoulder-length blond hair. She is wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, and is looking directly at the camera.

Shelley Saywell Reflects on Love and Mortality

by Barri Cohen
July 21, 2026
Features/Interviews

Shelley Saywell looks back at her career in documentary and a formative love story that helped fuel her passion in her memoir If Only Love.

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A collage of photos in three rows - Top row: Nuisance Bear (Gabrielle Osio Vanden), Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves Productions | Courtesy of Sundance Institute); Middle row: Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions (The Gay Agenda), The Sandbox (Kenya-Jade Pinto); Bottom row: The Wolves Always Come at Night (Michael Latham | Chromosom, Guru Media, Over Here Productions), CPH:DOX, Shelley Saywell in Gaza (Courtesy Shelley Saywell)

Coming Soon: POV Issue #125!

by POV Staff
March 26, 2026
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Subscribe today to get POV #125 and be among the first to read about docs like Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, The Sandbox, and Once Upon a Time in Harlem.

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Hot Docs 2015: Some Like it Hot

by Matthew Hays
April 23, 2015
Features/Hot Docs

Sophie Deraspe's The Amina Profile, Suzanne Crocker's All the Time in the World, and Shelley Saywell's Lowdown Tracks hit Hot Docs 2015.

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Stories of Canada’s beautiful game

by Mark Dillon
November 20, 2012
Features

Engraved on a Nation features sports docs by Larry Weinstein, Paul Cowan, John Walker, Shelley Saywell, Barry Greenwald, Charles Officer, Manfred Becker and Christie Callan-Jones.

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See Evil, Hear Evil and Report Evil

by Adam Nayman
November 20, 2012
Features

Why Poverty?, an international crossmedia initiative that’s both a spiritual sequel to 2007’s successful Why Democracy? campaign and a freestanding initiative

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Murder In the Family

by Janis Cole
April 1, 2010
Features/Hot Docs

In the Name of the Family and Life with Murder are tragic and terrifying films by John Kastner and Shelley Saywell.

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Reflecting Images

by Allan Tong
September 1, 2006
Photography

What is the difference between moving and still image? Tong investigates an aesthetic issue, placing it in an historical context

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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