Canadian filmmaker Ali Weinstein explores how putting on a mermaid tail can help women transform into mystical powerful beings in Mermaids. For …
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Sundance: Sarain Fox and Michelle Latimer on their VICE series, RISE, telling Indigenous stories
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 …
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. The film opens January …
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What does Canada’s Top Ten of 2016 say about Canadian Cinema?
Canada's Top Ten of 2016, TIFF's annual list of the 10 best Canadian films of the year, broke from tradition this year with many films from emerging filmmakers, …
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Inuk director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril talks Angry Inuk, seal hunting
Inuk filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril discusses seal hunting and the making of her HotDocs winner Angry Inuk, which has since been selected as one of Canada's …
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Director Dilip Mehta talks Mostly Sunny, Bollywood, and pornography
Canadian director Dilip Mehta discusses the making of his frank and surprising documentary about porn-star-turned-Bollywood-icon Sunny Leone. …
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