Tënk is a solidarity cooperative and subscription-based documentary streaming platform now available online across Canada.
Tënk was first created in Lussas, France, in what is affectionately known as The Documentary Village. The not-for-profit was first launched in Quebec in early 2020. With Tënk expanding across Canada, a real network is being created to properly represent the interests of its growing members, and to ensure the broadcasting of the best of documentary cinema.
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The online film academy, The Art of Documentary (AOD) was founded by Mark Bone and Michael Del Monte. AOD was founded to provide a course and a community that helps advance a more well-rounded filmmaker and gain access to professional opportunities.
Michael recently spoke with me this week to share more info about AOD and their inaugural Art of Documentary Film Festival taking place this Saturday, July 15th at Innis Town Hall in Toronto.
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In celebration of Pride Month, MUBI will bring a fresh batch of new exclusives to Pride Unprejudiced, the platform’s ongoing film collection dedicated to 2SLGBTQ+ Cinema.
The series, available year-round, includes an established curation of groundbreaking films which explore the vast spectrum of sexual orientations, gender identities and cultural perspectives.
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The 33rd annual Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival returns this year; showcasing 107 films from 30 countries, including 33 feature films, and 7 world premieres.
I have taken a look at this year’s lineup and sharing with you my personal picks. Be sure to add these films to your festival list!
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Traffic tickets can be utterly irritating, especially when you know you did nothing wrong… according to your version of events, that is.
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light many deficiencies in social supports for all but most importantly for those living with limited means, including lack of housing.
In Someone Lives Here, director Zack Russell follows carpenter Khaleel Seivwright who decides to take action to help unhoused people, living outside in Toronto during the winter of the pandemic, by building ‘tiny shelters’.
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It is often said religion and politics should not mix. However, this is easier said than done.
Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that reveals the power and influence of United States fundamentalist Evangelicals, as they aim to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy.
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In 1992, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the American soap opera Santa Barbara became a window into the western way of life for ordinary Russians. The show became hugely popular with the entire nation.
Thirty years later, director Gaukur Úlfarsson takes us along with Icelandic contemporary artist, Ragnar Kjartansson to Moscow as he brings the series to life as a living sculpture set to open an oligarch’s private museum.
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El Equipo, the fifth feature film by two-time Emmy® nominated director Bernardo Ruiz (The Infinite Race), will have its world premiere at Hot Docs Canadian this week.
Working with an array of archival materials that span forty years in part procedural, part true crime thriller, El Equipo tells the history-making collaboration between Dr. Clyde Snow, a legendary forensic scientist originally from Texas, and a group of Argentine university students.
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Here are more of my personal picks and recommendations of films screening at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.
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