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The effort, which is being called Canadian Cinema – Reignited, started taking shape last year after a conversation between Telefilm executive Francesca Accinelli and "Comic Book Confidential" documentarian Ron Mann bemoaned how some of the country's seminal movies were "starting to disappear" in the digital era and risked being lost to time. Many older Canadian films have never received a proper digital transfer, leaving them to languish on old video cassette transfers from the 1980s and 1990s, or in a low-quality "standard definition" format that falls below the expectations of streaming g...

Canadian artists fear backlash for speaking on Israel-Palestine Canadian artists fear backlash for speaking on Israel-Palestine Thousands signed petitions but many fear losing work or being labelled anti-Semitic By Radheyan Simonpillai Brennan Suche Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Yonge-Dundas Square on May 22 to protest Israeli government actions in Gaza Documentary filmmaker and activist John Greyson, writer Rinaldo Walcott, and musicians Mustafa and Broken Social Scene are among the Canadian artists who put their names to petitions showing unprecedented support for the Pales...

Remembering Patient Zero and the Wreckage of Antigay HIV Fear April 26 2021 7:56 PM EDT It was a beautiful, sunny spring morning in 2019. I awoke to a message from my friend, Richard Vaughan, who was in Toronto and had caught the opening of a new film at the Hot Docs Film Festival the previous night. "Hey, did you hear?" he wrote. "We just won the queer lottery: you and I are in a documentary with Fran Lebowitz!" It was a typical jovial message from Richard, my friend who maintained a prolific output, writing novels, nonfiction books, reviews, poetry and plays. The film he was messaging abou...

While the increased demand for streaming content hasn’t greatly diversified the mainstream—Amazon Prime Video just announced a severe curtailing in its documentary acquisitions, a major calamity for nonfiction filmmakers—it has seemed to improve the range of choices on the commercial margins. More competitors for the Best International Feature Oscar seem to get actual US distribution now, including the Ivory Coast candidate  Night of the Kings, below. And a particular gem, the British  Days of the Bagnold Summer, is one of the happier instances of an older movie (it premiered in 2019)...

Understanding the world with Berlinale Shorts 2021 A Love Song in Spanish by Ana Elena Tejera Due to the very nature of their production, short films can react with a creditable immediacy to current events. Yet – with a couple of notable exceptions – the 20 films that make up the selection of Berlinale Shorts 2021 don’t directly deal with the pandemic or the isolation of the past year. Indeed, the shorts that will be vying for the Golden Bear – going under the subtitle of “Tell Me About Yourself So That I Can Understand the World” – remind us that, despite the preoccupations of ...