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Zayne Akyol

You Could Win an Oscar—You Can’t Never Tell

by Tom White
December 17, 2024
Features/Industry

On hard fought Oscar nominations and the high price of an Academy Awards campaign in an increasingly competitive documentary field.

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Short Doc Who Loves the Sun Reps Canadian Film at Venice Orizzonti

by Pat Mullen
July 12, 2024
Festivals

Short documentary Who Loves the Sun, directed by Arshia Shakiba, is the only Canadian film selected for Venice's Orizzonti competition.

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Swan Song Wins Rogers Best Canadian Documentary from Toronto Film Critics

by Pat Mullen
March 5, 2024January 22, 2026
Features

Swan Song, directed by Chelsea McMullan, wins the inaugural Rogers Best Canadian Documentary award from the Toronto Film Critics Association.

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Zaynê Akyol’s Audacious Oscar Bid Rojek Interrogates the Roots of War

by Pat Mullen
November 10, 2023
Features

An interview with Rojek director Zaynê Akyol about her documentary that fearlessly considers the roots of religious fundamentalism that motivates people to fight.

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Canada Submits Rojek in Best International Feature Oscar Race

by Pat Mullen
August 24, 2023
Features/Industry

Rojek, directed by Zaynê Akyol, is Canada's official submission in the Oscar race for Best International Feature and is the second doc to receive the honour.

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Geographies of Solitude, Blue Island Top Hot Docs Winners

by Pat Mullen
May 7, 2022
Hot Docs

Geographies of Solitude, directed by Jacquelyn Mills, wins Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs.

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Rojek Review: The Burning Questions

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2022May 3, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

In Rojek, Zaynê Akyol offers a haunting and poetic interrogation of the violence waged on Syria by ISIS and looks the beast in the eye.

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What happens when Everest gets angry? 🏔 #EverestD What happens when Everest gets angry? 🏔

#EverestDark follows veteran climber Mingma Sherpa as he makes another ascent to recover bodies of fallen climbers and put the mountain's soul at ease. 

📽: select theatres beginning Mar. 2
🔗: in bio

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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! 

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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

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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
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