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REVIEW: Love Between the Covers

by Maurie Alioff
April 30, 2015
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Laurie Kahn’s Love Between the Covers plays as a celebration of the often-maligned world of romance fiction.

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REVIEW: Daughter of the Lake

by Pat Mullen
April 28, 2015
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Daughter of the Lake by Ernesto Cabellos Damián observes a small community in the Andes that feels parched after a gold mine sets up shop.

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Hot Docs 2015: This Is Her Story

by Kiva Reardon
April 23, 2015
Features/Hot Docs

Milk by Noemi Weis, Speed Sisters by Amber Fares, and Mom and Me by Lena Macdonald highlight female filmmakers at Hot Docs 2015.

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REVIEW: From the Bottom of the Lake

by Pat Mullen
May 9, 2014
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From the Bottom of the Lake is a behind the scenes look at Jane Campion's hit mini-series Top of the Lake with Elisabeth Moss.

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Hot Docs 2014: Diverse Women, Diverse Docs

by Kiva Reardon
April 24, 2014
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Come Worry With Us! by Hélène Klodawsky, The Sower by Julie Perron, and Absences by Carole Laganière are three very different films by women.

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Hot Docs 2013: Chi

by Janis Cole
April 23, 2013
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In Chi, Anne Wheeler documents the ups and downs of the cancer treatments that Babz Chula finds excruciating but accepts with hope.

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Women in Media: Time for Five More Feminist Minutes

by Zoë Druick
February 1, 2011
Industry

Leaders of industry, government and labour sat down with filmmakers, broadcasters, academics, new-media designers, engineers and students to ask a question that seems to have fallen off the agenda: where are the

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IDFA 2009, Gender and Commissioning

by Tove Torbiornsson
April 1, 2010
Industry

Where do women exist? It is a question that pertains to feature filmmaking even more than documentary filmmaking.

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Fact not Fiction

by Pepita Ferrari
April 1, 2010
Industry

Interesting, isn’t it, how women tend to get short shrift in recorded history. Is it true that women in documentary have it easier than drama?

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Filming a Blank Slate

by Alison Rose
April 1, 2009
Features

In Love at the Twilight Motel, Alison Rose discovers what it's like to film a doc about a “by the hour” motel.

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