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DOXA Documentary Festival runs April 30 to May 10

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The Harsh Reality of Becoming Plastic People

by Zoë Cormier
May 8, 2024
Features/Interviews

Plastic People explores the hidden costs of microplastics. Ziya Tong, Ben Addelman, and Rick Smith discuss a documentary that offers hope for change.

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Exclusive Clip: Plastic People Explores the Costs of ‘Throwaway Living’

by Pat Mullen
April 22, 2024April 24, 2024
Features

A clip from the new documentary Plastic People explores this history of throwaway living and the hidden cost of microplastics.

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Did the 1972 Hockey Summit Define Us?

by Susan G. Cole
September 26, 2022
Essays

Summit 72 and Ice-Breaker are two new documentaries that revisit the 1972 Canada-Soviet Union hockey games that gripped the nation.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie Carries On

by Paloma Pacheco
September 5, 2022November 21, 2023
Features/TIFF

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On celebrates the Cree singer, songwriter and activist.

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Balancing Secrets: Barri Cohen on Unloved

by Barri Cohen
August 26, 2022
Features

Barri Cohen discusses the personal approach of her award-winning documentary Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children and sharing survivors' stories.

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Barri Cohen’s Unloved Confronts a Painful Past

by Marc Glassman
May 2, 2022
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Barri Cohen's Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children is a personal study that confronts a legacy of abuse and injustice in an Ontario institution.

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Behind the Scenes of Wild Pacific Rescue

by Andrew Munger Michael Sheehan
April 13, 2021August 7, 2021
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Part 1: The Creative Development of Wild Pacific Rescue By Andrew Munger As White Pine Pictures’ Director of Unscripted Development, my primary responsibility is to create, develop and pitch new documentary and

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The Making of ‘Margaret Atwood: A Word after a Word after a Word is Power’

by Peter Raymont Nancy Lang
November 5, 2019August 21, 2021
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Peter Raymont and Nancy Lang recall their experience filming literary legend Margaret Atwood for their new documentary.

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Celebrating 40 years of White Pine Pictures

by Marc Glassman
September 7, 2019August 17, 2021
Festivals/Interviews/TIFF

An interview with Peter Raymont, founder, producer and director at White Pine Pictures, whose films include Shake Hands with the Devil, Genius Within, and TIFF 2019 opener Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson

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Doc of Ages

by Liam Lacey
August 31, 2019August 10, 2023
Features/TIFF

Once Were Brothers tells the story of Robbie Robertson and The Band in Daniel Roher's music doc that salutes a Canadian icon.

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