2007 Winter
Table of Contents

IDFA (INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILMFESTIVAL AMSTERDAM) AT 20

Let’s Play...20 Questions

by Peter Wintonick

Celebrate IDFA’s 20th anniversary with a parlour game.

Eastern Promise

by Matthew Hays

Canadian Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze traces the astonishing upheaval of millions of Chinese by the Three Gorges Dam. Hays reports on an epic debut feature doc.

ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & DOCS

Rules of the Game

by Daniel Cockburn

Artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno examined football (soccer) and its most controversial figure in Zidane. Cockburn surveys the turf in which art and docs coincide.

Bittersweet: The Carnival Life

photos by Virginia Lee Hunter and text by Marc Glassman

Director Alison Murray and photographer Virginia Lee Hunter captured the colourful world of carnivals for their film Carny. Hunter’s photos illuminate the life for POV.

FESTIVALS: RENCONTRES AND TIFF (TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)

Through the Looking Glass

by Jessica Duffin Wolfe

Where does the real world and TIFF’s reel world collide? Wolfe investigates.

A Documentary Decade

by Ezra Winton

The Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) celebrates its 10th anniversary this fall. Winton offers his pov on Quebec’s finest doc fest.

MAVERICK FILMMAKERS

Flying Fish

by Jocelyne Clarke

Dutch doc maker Leonard Retel Helmrich applies camera wizardry to compassionate tales of his mother’s native Indonesia. Clarke looks at a remarkable career.

The Outsider

by Andrew Tracy

Focusing on Louis Malle’s extraordinary—and relatively unknown—work in docs.

POINTED VIEW

Politics and Sleeves

by Jennifer Baichwal