POV: Canada's documentary magazine

  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise
Stream Canadian documentaries at NFB.ca

sxsw

A black and white image of a Black Haitian man standing at the front of a line of people. He is wearing a white unbuttoned shirt and holding a lit torch.

The Roots of Black Zombie

by Courtney Small
March 6, 2026
Features/Interviews

How Black Zombie cinematically reclaims the Haitian Vodou origins of zombie culture.

Keep Reading

The Hobby Brings the World of Tabletop Gaming Into a Long Overdue Spotlight

by Larry Fried
March 31, 2024
Festivals/Interviews

An interview with The Hobby director Simon Ennis and subjects Candice Harris and Dan Corbett about bringing tabletop gaming culture to screen.

Keep Reading

Three Canadian Documentaries Tapped for SXSW

by Pat Mullen
January 11, 2024
Festivals

Canadian documentaries Plastic People, Adrianne & the Castle, and Hello Stranger are among the films set to premiere at this year's SXSW.

Keep Reading

299 Queen Street West Is a Doc that More Canadians Should Be Able to See

by Jason Gorber
November 5, 2023
Festivals/Interviews

An interview with 299 Queen Street West director Sean Menard about his documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of MuchMusic.

Keep Reading

Self-Portrait Review: Four Seasons of Surveillance

by Rachel Ho
April 6, 2022
Reviews

Joële Walinga's Self-Portrait examines what humans have created on this planet using found surveillance footage and layered soundscapes.

Keep Reading

The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks Review – Laughter, Revisited

by Jason Gorber
March 24, 2022
Festivals/Reviews

The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks is a fun documentary by Reg Harkema that explores this history, highs, and lows of the comedy group.

Keep Reading

Kids in the Hall Doc Leads Canadian Films Heading to SXSW

by Pat Mullen
February 2, 2022
Festivals

The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, Self-Portrait, Nuisance Bear, Nalujuk Night, and Belle River are among the Canadian documentaries slated for SXSW 2022.

Keep Reading

Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free Review: A Higher Place

by Jason Gorber
March 23, 2021
Reviews

Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free revisits the recording of the singer’s Wildflowers album.

Keep Reading

Clerk Review: Sympathy for Kevin Smith

by Jason Gorber
March 18, 2021
Reviews

SXSW doc chronicles the work and fandom of director/geek Kevin Smith.

Keep Reading

Towards a filmmaker bill of rights for festivals

by Sean Farnel
November 16, 2012
Festivals/Industry

What does it mean for film festivals to be at the core of the art and business of independent filmmaking, and what are the rights of artists?

Keep Reading

Search

Advertisement

The est Docs on the Big Screen Hot Docs Cinema

E-Newsletter

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

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

Follow POV

Advertisement

The est Docs on the Big Screen Hot Docs Cinema

On Instagram

pov_magazine

Canada's #documentary magazine

Gen AI isn't staying in the shadows. What does tha Gen AI isn't staying in the shadows. What does that mean for documentaries if use of the technology increasingly appears in films?

🔗 @nidhilvohra looks at some of the big questions that readers should be asking about AI. (Link in bio.)

#filmmaking #technology #ai #Netflix #movies
Layout proofing the new issue! #Subscribe today to Layout proofing the new issue! #Subscribe today to be among the first to read #POV126. 📬

🔗 Link in bio. 

#documentary #magazines #tiff26
Winner of the overall Audience Award at Hot Hocs, Winner of the overall Audience Award at Hot Hocs, #AmericanDoctor brings an urgent story about aid in Gaza. 

🔗 interview with director Poh Si Teng in bio

📽 opens @tiff_net Aug. 14

#documentary #Gaza #interviews #film
Not every shot makes the net. ⚽️ MOURINHO misses Not every shot makes the net. ⚽️

MOURINHO misses with its self-serving portrait of the soccer icon. 

🔗 review in bio

📽 now streaming on Netflix

#moviereview #documentary #mourinho #josemourinho #soccer
How a Winnipeg shelter offers a lesson in empathy. How a Winnipeg shelter offers a lesson in empathy. 

@fivedoorfilms reflects upon making #TheMission and observing community amid the housing crisis. 

🔗 link in bio

📽  The Mission premieres on @cbcgem Aug. 14

#filmmaking #Winnipeg #documentary #movies
Get animated! Watch these 10 @onf_nfb films that i Get animated! Watch these 10 @onf_nfb films that ingeniously blend animation and documentary. 📽

🔗Full list at povmagazine.com

#film #movies #animation #nowwatching #cdnfilm
This Netflix doc has Super-sized familiarity, but This Netflix doc has Super-sized familiarity, but you won't feel like chicken tonight afterward. 🐔

📽 Big Chicken: A Fat Food Conspiracy is now on Netflix

🔗 Review in bio

#moviereview #Documentary #Netflix #chicken #food
🚨 TIFF Docs Line-up! 🚨 Ahead of the big announcem 🚨 TIFF Docs Line-up! 🚨

Ahead of the big announcement, we spoke with TIFF Docs Lead Programmer Thom Powers and Canadian programmers Jason Anderson and Kelly Boutsalis to learn more about this year's documentary line-up.

Highlights include

- Union Town
- Rapinoe
- The Ultra Runner
- Still Night, Burning House
- Musk
- Turtle Island Rap
- Ba's Book
- Low Lies the Land
- Bleeding Hearts (🎵)

- and more!

🔗 Get the full scoop at the link in our bio.

#tiff26 #TIFF #tiffdocs #documentary #movies film
We have Wavelengths! 🌊 @tiff_net announces its ex We have Wavelengths! 🌊

@tiff_net announces its experimental slate with ONE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM leading the feature docs. Lots of Wavelengths alumni hop aboard too.

🔗 Link in bio for film lineup. 

#tiff26 #Wavelengths #film #cinema #tiff
Follow Us

Categories

  • Essays
  • Features
  • Festivals
  • Hot Docs
  • Industry
  • Interviews
  • Lists
  • News
  • Photography
  • Reviews
  • RIDM
  • Sundance
  • TIFF

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger Trailer Spotlights Brit Band’s Reunion
  • What Place Does Artificial Intelligence Have in Documentaries?
  • Green Valley Review: Off-Grid Life with a Few Light Bulbs
  • Black Zombie Trailer: This Doc Will Reset Your Brains
  • MOURINHO Review: A Self-Serving Portrait of the “Special One”

Stream Canadian documentaries at NFB.ca
CCA
OAC
Government of Ontario

Latest Posts

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger Trailer Spotlights Brit Band’s Reunion

August 18, 2026
Two men in Civil War era America speak before a crowd of people. The men have white wigs and black robes.

What Place Does Artificial Intelligence Have in Documentaries?

August 17, 2026

Green Valley Review: Off-Grid Life with a Few Light Bulbs

August 13, 2026
A black and white image of a Black Haitian man standing at the front of a line of people. He is wearing a white unbuttoned shirt and holding a lit torch.

Black Zombie Trailer: This Doc Will Reset Your Brains

August 12, 2026
José Mourinho stands on a beach.

MOURINHO Review: A Self-Serving Portrait of the “Special One”

August 11, 2026

SUBSCRIBE

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.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

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

Tags

activism Archive biography Black Stories Canadian film celebrity COVID-19 Documentary Organization of Canada environment experimental family film on film Hot Docs Hot Docs 2016 Hot Docs 2017 Hot Docs 2018 Hot Docs 2019 Hot Docs 2021 Hot Docs 2022 Hot Docs 2023 Hot Docs 2024 Hot Docs 2025 Human Rights hybrid film Indigenous interviews LGBTQ mental health migration music Netflix NFB Oscars Photography politics RIDM Short Docs Sports Sundance TIFF TIFF Docs True Crime TV Women Youth

© All articles copyright Point of View Magazine. No work may be reproduced without our express written consent.
Toronto, ON • Canada

  • Browse Docs By
  • Articles
  • Festivals
  • Issue Archive
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise
Go toTop
0 $0.00