POV 78 - HOT DOCS ISSUE - SUMMER 2010

HOT DOCS
Murder In the Family by Janis Cole
Shelley Saywell’s In the Name of the Family and John Kastner’s Life with Murder are emotionally charged stories. Cole assesses their accomplishments.
 
experiMental? by Adam Nayman
Can documentaries break with tradition and be truly avant-garde? Mike Hoolboom’s Mark and Yuval Sagiv’s How I Filmed the War prove it’s possible.
 
Cool Jewish Curator of the YouTube Generation by Maurie Alioff
Socalled is a Montréal Yiddish hip hop artist—and now the subject of a bio-doc by Garry Beitel. Alioff reports.
 
Steam of Life by Melanie Sevcenko
Finnish men stripping in saunas to reveal the naked truths of their lives. Now that’s a hot doc—dripping wet, too.
 
Reflections on Festivals by Tue Steen Müller
Doc guru Müller offers an incisive look at the changing role of festivals.
 
WOMEN AND DOCS
 
Pulse of the World by Jocelyne Clarke
Clarke profiles Tahani Rached, an important world filmmaker.
 
Fact not Fiction by Pepita Ferrari
Women don’t get a fair shake in the director sweepstakes. And that’s a fact.
 
IDFA 2009, Gender and Commissioning by Tove Torbiörnsson
A Swedish film commissioner challenges her colleagues to change the gender disparity among doc-makers.
 
HOT ISSUES
 
Disaster Docs by Peter Wintonick
POV’s international editor examines docs and websites set up in Haiti, China and Italy after earthquakes—their efficacy and morality.
 
Ask Peter Broderick by James Buffin
What does Broderick have to say about the making and distribution of docs? Ask James Buffin.
 
The “D” Word by Alicia Androich
No, not drugs or dysentery. Docs. How does a company promote a film with the dreaded “d”?
 
The Economics of Internet Television in Canada by Cameron McMaster
DOC’s policy point person analyzes how TV makes money, even on the internet. Guess who’s paying? Filmmakers: read and weep.
 
COLUMNS

 
SOUNDSCAPING: David Wall, Chameleon Composer by Heidi McKenzie
 
POINTED VIEW: The Meaning and Importance of Cultural Boycotts by Cathy Gulkin
 
POLICY MATTERS by Barri Cohen