Host Sarain Fox and Director Michelle Latimer discuss the making of their new VICE TV series, RISE, telling Indigenous stories, and what it means to tell these stories through film — an inherently colonialist medium.
Canadian Cinema
Canadian directors delve into their work which is too often overlooked by festivals.
Québecois writer-director Anne Émond talks Nelly
Writer-director Anne Émond discusses her unconventional Nelly Arcand biopic, Nelly, which was selected for Canada’s Top Ten of 2016.
Inuk director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril talks Angry Inuk, seal hunting
Inuk filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril discusses seal hunting and the making of Angry Inuk, which is one of Canada’s Top Ten Films of 2016.
Director Dilip Mehta talks Mostly Sunny, Bollywood, and pornography
Canadian director Diliip Mehta discusses the making of his frank and surprising documentary about porn-star-turned-Bollywood-icon Sunny Leone.
Is the Sugar lifestyle worth trying? Director Hannah Donegan on her CBC doc Sugar Sisters
What is the difference between being a “Sugar Baby” and a sex worker? Is it a viable way to make an income? Filmmaker Hannah Donegan explores these questions and more in Sugar Sisters, a documentary in which she and her sisters try out life as a Sugar Baby.
Métis director Terril Calder discusses her TIFF16 short SNIP
Métis filmmaker Terril Calder’s SNIP reckons with Canada’s past violence toward indigenous people through the residential school system.