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VIFF 2018

Get Out Your Knife and Fork: It’s VIFF Time!

by Dorothy Woodend
September 28, 2018May 20, 2022
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In short, there are a great many documentaries in the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF for those that know her well), including Anthropocene: The Human Epoch and Sharkwater Extinction.

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Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weeken Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weekend! 🏆

This year's nominees are:
🫏 perfectly a strangeness
🩺 The Devil Is Busy
📷 All the Empty Rooms
🪧 Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
📹 Armed With Only a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

🔗: link to review in bio

📽: TIFF; But also streaming! All the Empty Rooms is on Netflix and Seemed with Only a Camera, The Devil Is Busy, and perfectly a strangeness are in Crave. 

#shorts  #film #movies #Oscars #donkeys
How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard him before?

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert film editor and executive producer Jonathan Redmon tells us about re-mastering the King himself. 🤴 

🔗: in bio
📽: in theatres Feb. 20

#Elvis #elvispresley #movies #film #Documentary
Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary open Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary opening wide, and it's #EPiC!

Don't miss EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Baz Luhrmann's maximalist music doc that had TIFFgoers dancing in the theatre. 

📽: IMAX theatres Feb. 20; regular cinemas next week. 
🔗: in bio

#Elvis #elvispresley #Documentary #bazluhrmann
RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true master RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true masters. 🕯

In films like Titicut Follies,  National Gallery, In Jackson Heights, and Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, his observational eye and appreciation for institutional intricacies (and how to critique them) inspired us to savour every second of a film.  May #Wisemanesque films stand the test of time! 

#FrederickWiseman #Documentary #film #rip
First they came for the books. 📚 Festival favouri First they came for the books. 📚

Festival favourite #AnAmericanPastoral observes a snapshot of the culture wars and radicalized politics. Now streaming!

🔗: in bio
📽: Apple

#film #documentary #movies #moviereview
Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line betwe Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line between mockumentary, Jackass, and WTF, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is a truly Canadian original. 

🔗: in bio
📽: now in theatres

#nirvanna #movies #moviereview #film #mockumentary
And the award for teacher of the year goes to... 🥁 And the award for teacher of the year goes to... 🥁🥁🥁

Catch a courageous story to protect young minds from Russia's regime in Oscar nominee @mr.nobodyagainstputin.

🔗: in bio
📽: now in theatres

#mrnobodyagainstputin #Documentary #film #movies #moviereview
Well, it looks like Melania won't be our next cove Well, it looks like Melania won't be our next cover girl. 🤷

🔗: in bio
📽: coming to Prime Video

#Melania #documentary #film #movies #moviereview
Whether you sing #HakunaMatata or #HakuchaMunyata, Whether you sing #HakunaMatata or #HakuchaMunyata, @runasimi.doc reminds us that accessible cinema ain't no passing craze. 

📽: Catch it tonight at @hotdocs_ #DocSoup series!

🔗: in bio

#Documentary #moviereview
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