POV INTERVIEW:

Allan King, The King of Verité

By Marc Glassman

The legendary filmmaker of Sixties classics Warrendale and A Married Couple and recent his Dying At Grace and empZ4Life, Allan King talks about actuality dramas, docs and philosophy.
 

NOT YET PAST: Alanis Obomsawin explores the living history of her people in Waban-aki.

By Andrew Tracy

First Nations’ filmmaker Obomsawin has challenged mainstream Canadian though about Native issues with her compassionate, confrontational docs for nearly 40 years. Tracy examines her contribution to cinema and Native culture.
 

EXHORTATIONS

Doc the World

By Peter Wintonick

Governor General’s Award winner Wintonick presents his world media ‘manifesta’, a congregation without personal boundaries or technological limits.

EXHIBITIONS

From Grassroots to Global Networks: Cinema Politica & the Cultural Reprise of Political Documentary

By Michael Lithgow

Ezra Winton’s documentary screening programme at Concordia University in Montréal regularly draws 400 people. How does he do it- and can it grow?

 

Nuit Blanche 

One of the most radical events in Toronto history, Nuit Blanche brought over 420,000 people on the street overnight to look at art.

By Noelle Elia: Social Change the Nuit Blanche way

By Jane Purdue: A “white night” at the movies

By Janis Cole: A Sleepless Night of Art 

Reel Asians: Asian Canadians celebrate their cinema

By Alice Shih 

Shih traces the rapid growth of Asian-Canadian filmmaking through the 10th anniversaries of festivals in Toronto and Vancouver.

Real Spectacles: Notes from San Jose

By Jessica Wolfe

Having attended the ZeroOne festival of electronic art and symposium of the Inter-Society for Electronic Art (ISEA), Wolfe reports on how new media will affect Canada’s indie scene in the coming years.

Pointed View: A GreenCode for the Documentary and Screen Industries

By Peter Wintonick 

Ecology should begin at home. Doc-makers, take heed!