Category Archives: Documentaries

TIFF 2009: Preliminaries, Part 1

TIFF season is upon us again. For the past few weeks, I’ve been patiently entering each batch of announced films into a spreadsheet, and noting with growing alarm the number of great films that are making their way to my … Continue reading

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Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae

Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae (Director: Stascha Bader): Well, I’ll get one thing out of the way first. The poster for this movie kind of sucks. But I think if you watch the trailer (embedded below), that might help you … Continue reading

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Found

One of the greatest things about attending SIFT this year was meeting some wonderful filmmakers. Paramita Nath is a Toronto native who has just had her first film, a documentary short, accepted at the Palm Springs Shortfest in California. Although … Continue reading

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When We Were Boys

When We Were Boys (Director: Sarah Goodman): I was a big fan of Sarah Goodman’s first film Army of One (review) which premiered at Hot Docs in 2004 and so when I saw she had another film at Hot Docs, … Continue reading

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SIFT 2009 Wrapup

I got back from Ottawa about 11:30pm on Sunday night and am still pretty exhausted, but I wanted to write up my SIFT experience while it was still fresh in my mind. I took the five-day Docology workshop with famed … Continue reading

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