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Here’s How to See All of Canada’s Best Documentary Oscar Nominees and Winners

by Alejandra De La Huerta
February 21, 2024
Features

Stream the Canadian Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominees and winners as we await To Kill a Tiger's big night at the Academy Awards.

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The Private Eye: Focus on Elizabeth Klinck

by Judy Wolfe
May 4, 2023May 16, 2023
Features/Hot Docs

Visual researcher, clearance specialist, and producer Elizabeth Klinck is documentary's top sleuth.

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From Picket Lines to Poverty: Labour Union Troubles in Canada

by Tristan Wheeler
April 12, 2021August 7, 2021
Features

Having a cinematic tradition that is inexorably linked to the documentary means that the battle between Canadian labour and multinational big business has been well-documented. Since its inception, documentary filmmakers working with

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The Last Dive: Sturla Gunnarsson Talks ‘Sharkwater Extinction’

by Michael John Long Marc Glassman
October 18, 2018August 23, 2021
Interviews

Sturla Gunnarsson has an illustrious career as the former President of the Director’s Guild of Canada and as a drama and documentary filmmaker. Gunnarsson’s work has earned him an Oscar nomination (After

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Interview: Nick Hector on Editing ‘Sharkwater Extinction’

by Michael John Long Marc Glassman
October 17, 2018August 23, 2021
Interviews

As a new professor in Cinema Arts at the University of Windsor, Nick Hector is sharing his 30 years of experience with aspiring filmmakers. His experience has put him in the editing

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I’ll Take the Rain: Sturla Gunnarsson’s “Monsoon”

by Adam Nayman
September 1, 2014February 3, 2022
Features/TIFF

Sturla Gunnarsson's Monsoon is a majestic new documentary shot on location in India and beneath torrents of relentless rain.

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Is David Suzuki a Force of Nature?

by Adam Nayman
September 1, 2010March 12, 2022
Features

Sturla Gunnarsson's Force of Nature profiles Canadian icon and environmentalist David Suzukui, known for his hit series The Nature of Things.

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What stories exist outside the frame? 📷 @gesila.l What stories exist outside the frame? 📷

@gesila.lightplaysociety looks at the complicated historues behind two iconic Vietnam War photos in the documentaries The Stringer and Saigon Story. 

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@imaginenative kicks off today with AKI! Here are @imaginenative kicks off today with AKI! Here are some of the documentary highlights at this year's festival devoted to Indigenous storytellers. 🪶

📽 On now through June 7

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Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story leads the Canadian Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story leads the Canadian Screen Awards broadcast documentary winners! Congratulations to the team and all the winners. 🏆

🔗 Get the full list at povmagazine.com 

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Congratulations to #EndlessCookie for winning the Congratulations to #EndlessCookie for winning the Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature!

🔗 visit povmagazine.com for the full list of documentary winners. 

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The @bluemtnfilmfest kicks off its 5th edition tom The @bluemtnfilmfest kicks off its 5th edition tomorrow! Here are some of the #documentary highlights playing at this year's fest, including several Canadian premieres, music docs, and grand adventures. 🏔

📽 May 28 - 31, @bluemtnvillage 

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With purse strings tightening in Canada, must film With purse strings tightening in Canada, must filmmakers look south or to Medici-style patrons to fund their docs?

@adambenzine looks at the Canadian situation in the first of our three-part survey in the state of documentary. 

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WHAT WILL I BECOME? offers a powerful exploration WHAT WILL I BECOME? offers a powerful exploration of trans boyhood and conversations about mental health. ✨️ 

We chatted with directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos ahead of the film's Canadian premiere at @insideoutfestival. 

📽 in-theatre: May 30; also online

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#whatwillibecome #Documentary #film #InsideOut #mentalhealth
@insideoutfestival kicks off today with a great li @insideoutfestival kicks off today with a great line up of docs including #Antidiva, which screens May 23.

🔗 Get the full rundown of doc highlights at the fest at POV as #InsideOut runs today through May 31. 🌈

#film #festivals #Toronto
Reporting from la Croisette, here are all the #Can Reporting from la Croisette, here are all the #Cannes docs that @filmfest_ca has been reviewing from the fest. 🌴

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An archival image of rocker Carole Pope seated in a backwards folding chair. She is wearing a black leather jumpsuit and boots. This is a cover for POV issue #125 with the letters POV in bright pink and the subtitle The Antidiva in yellow.

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Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

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

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