Director Reid Davenport discusses creating an aesthetic of radical disability and empathy.
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A look back at three pioneering photographer-filmmakers: Paul Strand, Helen Levitt, and Gordon Parks and their contribution to documentary.
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Upbeat doc Martha: A Picture Story gives street photographer Martha Cooper her due.
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On one hand, Pretend It’s a City is an engaging portrait of Fran Lebowitz, but on the other, it’s an essential time capsule of pre-COVID city life. I haven’t laughed so heartily
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Two movies, Toronto-based, set fewer than a hundred meters apart, made by millennial women. But that’s not all that connects #BLESSED and There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace.
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Prayer for a Lost Mitten director Jean-François Lesage discusses his winner for Hot Docs’ Best Canadian Feature Award and the forgotten pleasures of urban life, told through the stories of items lost
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"When the financial backers put down their feet it a city, it’s with a lot of energy and they shake the city," says Push director Fredrik Gertten on his documentary that explores
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Keep ReadingUnarmed Verses (Canada, 85 min.) Dir. Charles Officer The thought experiment called the ship of Theseus asks if a boat remains the same if one removes all of its boards and
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