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Also: Two more DOXA films (one of them Canadian), and a pair of amusing comedies. DOXA is the main attraction today. It kicked off yesterday, is on for another 10 days and offers all its titles to stream. Also, seven of its best in a drive-in format next week at the PNE Amphitheatre. Check out for details. The other big documentary festival, Toronto’s Hot Docs, is also still on. It ends Sunday and is also streaming. I review another film today that’s at both and a batch of others. Read on....

The team responsible for making the documentary Wilfred Buck is CA$10,000 richer as the 2021 online edition of the Hot Docs Forum wraps. The documentary (pictured) – directed by Lisa Jackson and produced by Jackson and Alicia Smith for Door Number 3 Productions (Canada) and the National Film Board of Canada – won the Canadian Forum Pitch Prize, presented in partnership with DGC National and DGC Ontario. The film follows a man known as “the Indiana Jones of Indigenous star knowledge,” w...

What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 7-9 Including Almodovars English-language debut, Eat Wheaties! and season 3 of The Girlfriend Experience By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie May 7, 2021 The Human Voice (Pedro Almodóvar) Spanish director Almodóvar’s English-language debut is a short film that strips the hallmarks of his oeuvre down to a few core elements: a high-strung woman engages in high drama while clad in high fashion. Based on Jean Cocteau’s monodrama of th...

Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson Thu, May 27, 2021 Fri, May 7, 2021@11:23AM | comments The new Paramount Plus (formerly CBS All Access) docu-series From Cradle to Stage, based on Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohls mother Virginias 2017 book, premiered yesterday with an episode featuring Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds and his mother Christine. The show is co-hosted by Dave and Virginia Grohl, and subsequent episodes will feature Pharrell and Dr. Carolyn Williams on May 13; Miranda and ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Stanley Nelson on Persistence, Mentorship, and Why BIPOC Filmmakers Are a Shot in the Arm to the Documentary Industry Christopher Vourlias, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Having chronicled countless landmark moments in African-American history, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson (“The Black Panthers,” “The Murder of Emmett Till”) understands the stakes at a time when both the culture at large, as well as the documentary industry, are...

How Director Elle-Maija Tailfeathers Discovered a Path to Healing on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis Jennie Punter, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director and producer Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers opens her documentary “Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy” with a peaceful, slow-motion scene of buffalo calves grazing alongside their mothers while the voice of the filmmaker’s mother, a family doctor, is heard gently speaking to a mother about her baby. A coproduction between ...

Canadian innovator Bruce Mau says we need to redesign our world Humans need to redesign "practically everything," because we’ve created a world full of waste, pollution and "degraded life," says a Canadian designer. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: May 06, 2021 12:06 PM ET | Last Updated: May 6 Canadian designer Bruce Mau has used his creativity to help tackle big world problems, like plastic pollution.(Babka)

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Hot Docs 2021: Jennifer Holness expertly links beauty and power in Subjects Of Desire Hot Docs 2021: Jennifer Holness expertly links beauty and power in Subjects Of Desire The Toronto filmmakers doc is an ode to Black women that brings to light the systemic forces they fight against every day By Kelsey Adams Courtesy of Hot Docs SUBJECTS OF DESIRE (Jennifer Holness). 103 minutes. Live Q&A on Thursday (May 6) at 7 pm. hotdocs.ca Rating: NNNN On April 22, American activist and abolition...

NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Homeroom Immersive, powerful film follows a diverse and politically aware senior class in Oakland through nine tumultuous months By Norman Wilner NNNNN Oakland documentarian Nicks took us into an ER in The Waiting Room and shadowed the police department in The Force. The third film in his informal, invaluable trilogy follows the senior class of Oakland High School – diverse, politically aware and extremely online – from September 2019 to June 2020. Nic...