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Alex Heeney / June 5, 2025

HotDocs Review: Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest

Alex Heeney reviews Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest, a Gothic documentary about a haunted house that reveals lesser-known parts of Winnipeg’s intersectional history.

Alex Heeney / May 3, 2025

HotDocs Review: Reid Davenport’s Life After

Alex Heeney reviews Reid Davenport’s new film, Life After, which tackles the troubling trend toward assisted dying for disabled people, including Canada’s own MAiD program.

Alex Heeney / May 11, 2024

HotDocs 2024: Animated documentaries are here to stay

Alex Heeney takes a look at some of the animated documentaries that screened at HotDocs 2024, including Pelikan Blue, The Day Iceland Stood Still, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Silent Trees.

Seventh Row Editors / July 13, 2023

Creative Nonfiction #5: Penny Lane on Confessions of a Good Samaritan and playing with form

In the fifth and final episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Penny Lane discusses her experiments with form in Confessions of a Good Samaritan.

Seventh Row Editors / June 7, 2023

Creative Nonfiction #3: Philippe Falardeau on Lac-Mégantic: This is Not An Accident and reinventing the true crime doc

In the third episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Philippe Falardeau discusses his four-part documentary series, Lac-Mégantic: This is Not An Accident, and reinventing the true crime doc.

Alex Heeney / April 27, 2023

Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work

Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he’s making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to work around the world.

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