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The 2024 TIFF Docs Report: TIFF Is (Sort of) Back, Baby!

by Pat Mullen
September 16, 2024September 19, 2024
Features/TIFF

The 2024 TIFF Docs report: highlights from the documentary side of the Toronto International Film Festival, overwhelmed by controversy.

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Space Cowboy Review: Defying Gravity, One Shot at a Time

by Pat Mullen
September 6, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

Space Cowboy flies high with skydiving cinematographer Joe Jennings. It's an adrenaline-rush of a doc from Marah Strauch and Bryce Leavitt.

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Sales Titles and Awards Hopefuls Tapped for TIFF Docs Line-Up

by Pat Mullen
August 7, 2024August 31, 2024
Features/TIFF

Previewing the TIFF Docs slate with the festival's documentary programmer Thom Powers. Docs coming to Toronto include No Other Land, Vice Is Broke, and The Last Republican.

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Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs that helped define the festival's first 50 years: 📽: Sharkwater (TIFF '06) 📽: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (TIFF '92) 📽: Manufactured Landscapes (TIFF '06) 📽: Hoop Dreams (TIFF '94) 📽: Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (TIFF '15) 📽: No Sad Songs (TIFF '85) 📽: From the Sky Down (TIFF '11) 📽: Attica (TIFF '21) 📽: Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (TIFF '23) 📽: Leviathan (TIFF '85) 🔗 full list: 📽: #TIFF50 #TIFF #Documentary #movies #film #moviereview
📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Pro 📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Programmer, Hot Docs Festival. Doc Soup series is also set to return in Oct. with Sundance hit #TheLibrarians. 🔗: https://povmagazine.com/gabor-pertic-named-lead-programmer-hot-docs-festival/ #Documentary #Toronto #hotdocs
As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 d As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 docs that defined the first 50 years of @tiff_net! Among the highlights: 📽 Harlan County USA (TIFF '76) 📽 Stop Making Sense (TIFF '84 & '23) 📽 Comic Book Confidential (TIFF '88) 📽 Roger & Me (TIFF '89) 📽 Pina (TIFF '11) 📽 The Act of Killing (TIFF '12) 📽 I Am Not Your Negro (TIFF '16) 📽 @freesolofilm (TIFF '18) 📽 @thebandfilm (TIFF '19) 📽 @tokillatigerdoc (TIFF '22) What are some of your favourites? 🔗: https://povmagazine.com/50-docs-that-defined-tiff-looking-back-at-the-festival-of-festivals/ #Documentary #TIFF #movies #film
How does a community come together amid tragedy? How does a community come together amid tragedy? @ibopwebop tells @truedaley about telling the story of Nicholas Gibbs and shedding light on local issues in Montreal. Now online from issue #123! 🔗: https://povmagazine.com/night-watches-us-a-father-remembered/ #Documentary #BlackLivesMatter #NicholasGibbs #movies #interviews #Montreal
Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mea Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mean for #documentary? @nidhilvohra looks at Gen AI in filmmaking and considers it from the pov of ethics, labour, and environmental impact. 🖲 🔗: https://povmagazine.com/does-generative-artificial-intelligence-represent-reality-in-filmmaking/ #AI #GENAI #filmmaking #movies
Now online from #POV123, @smallmind1978 examines h Now online from #POV123, @smallmind1978 examines how a cohort of Black filmmakers explores diverse canvases for storytelling. 🔗: https://povmagazine.com/shifting-forms-black-auteurs-explore-diverse-canvases/ 📷: @blknws: Terms and Conditions (coming to #tiff50!) #Documentary #film #movies #blknws
New hat! Toronto's double Michelin-starred omakase New hat! Toronto's double Michelin-starred omakase chef Masaki Saito graces the cover of #POV124 as our new issue heads to the printer before STILL SINGLE premieres at @tiff_net 🍣 Here's a taste of what's inside our new issue. #Subscribe today to read it! https://povmagazine.com/issue-124-fall-winter-2025/ 🙏 Thank you to all our writers who contributed to this issue, and everyone who helped make it happen, and especially to @telefilm_canada for sponsoring this issue and our online #tiff50 coverage! #documentary #film #movies #stillsingle #masakisaito #food #tiff
"With Powwow, something that’s really special is "With Powwow, something that’s really special is that it is such a communal event, but also it is quite an individual journey." @bird.grl tells @nidhilvohra about the personal and collective power of #Powwow and her documentary #UnderTheArbor, now streaming on @cbcgem. 🪶 🔗: https://povmagazine.com/how-under-the-arbor-celebrates-the-collective-spirit-of-powwow/ #documentary #film #movies #Indigenous #interviews
"I am a single mom, and I understood that there wa "I am a single mom, and I understood that there was a complicated relationship with his mother. I really wanted to tell an intimate family story." Amy Berg tells @_rachelkh about her approach to telling #JeffBuckley's story through the women in his life in @itsneverovermovie. 🔗: https://povmagazine.com/amy-berg-tells-jeff-buckleys-story-through-women-who-knew-him-best/ 📽: opens at @hotdocs_ this weekend! #film #music #movies #documentary
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