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How Meadowlarks Reimagines an Acclaimed Documentary

by Pat Mullen
November 28, 2025
Features/Interviews

Meadowlarks director Tasha Hubbard and star Michael Greyeyes on reimagining the acclaimed documentary Birth of a Family about siblings uniting after the Sixties Scoop tore their family apart.

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Resilience and Representation in Alberta

by Nauzanin Knight
June 27, 2024
Features/Industry

Tracing the evolving landscape of BIPOC documentary filmmaking in Alberta with directors and producers like Cheryl Foggo, Taghreed Saadeh, and Gil Cardinal.

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National Canadian Film Day Documentary Highlights

by Pat Mullen
April 20, 2022
Industry

National Canadian Film Day highlights for documentary screenings, conversations, at home viewings, and more to celebrate Canadian content.

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30 Indigenous Films from the NFB You Ought to See

by Michelle van Beusekom
May 4, 2020
Features

Must see Indigenous documentaries and movies from the National Film Board of Canada.

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The Best Canadian Documentaries of 2019

by Marc Glassman
December 26, 2019
Features

The standout Canadian docs of 2019 include nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, This Is Not a Movie, The Corporate Coup d'État, Toxic Beauty, and Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies.

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‘nîpawistamâsowin’ is 2019’s Best Canadian Doc so Far

by Marc Glassman
May 30, 2019
Reviews

nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (Canada, 98 min.) Dir. Tasha Hubbard Anyone wondering what is the best Canadian documentary of the spring should look no further than Tasha Hubbard’s absorbing indictment of

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Changing the Conversation About Festivals

by Marc Glassman
April 26, 2019
Hot Docs

Hot Docs has become like TIFF: it’s so great that there’s too much to see. 251 films? You can’t see them all.

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Justice for Colten

by Pat Mullen
April 20, 2019
Features/Hot Docs/Interviews

Tasha Hubbard's nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up examines the murder of Colten Boushie and the legacy of colonial violence that underscored the trial of Gerard Stanley.

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Saskatchewan: A Cooperative past and future

by Alex Rogalski
August 11, 2017
Essays

Saskatchewan film is innovative, reflective work that leans toward the personal, yet tells a story specific to a part of the country.

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The Slow Burn: Committed Canadian Documentaries at Hot Docs 2017

by Ezra Winton
May 4, 2017
Festivals/Hot Docs

Several of the conversations I’ve had about the current state of documentary in Canada at this year’s Hot Docs have turned on issues relating to both the cultural politics and the political

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