“Flamenco, Flamenco” at VanCity Theater
Spanish director Carlos Saura, best known for his 1980s flamenco trilogy (Blood Wedding, Carmen and El Amor Brujo), once again returns to the world of his favourite dance. A painterly, masterful look …
History and Stories: Documenting Documentaries at the Cinematheque
The works in “L’Histoire, toutes le histoires” exemplify interactions between contemporary art and documentary practices that are particularly fecund. These artists employ working processes with empirical data (documents) and marks …
“Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” at VanCity Theater
The East Siberian Taiga is one of the largest ecosystems in Russia. The area is home for bears, moose, reindeer, sable, ermine and other animals, including impressively self-reliant white Russian …
CSC Field Trip to First Weekend Club’s Canada Screens ‘Liberia ’77’
To know where you’re going, you have to know where you’re from… This revolutionary tale is more than a film, it’s a movement that has begun to restore memories, faith …
Waking The Green Tiger on The Nature of Things
Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river, in southwestern China. Featuring …
Music is the Medicine on APTN
MUSIC IS THE MEDICINE is a one-hour documentary that follows the journey of blues-rock virtuoso Derek Miller, one of Indigenous Canada’s most recognizable artists, as he sets out to release …
Good Pitch New York and San Francisco application deadlines
Good Pitch is an invitation-only event starting with an intensive two-day campaign development workshop, followed by the day-long live event. This process covers a four-day period. If you’re a filmmaker …
2012 Yorkton Documentary Film Festival submission deadline
Enries for the 2012 Festival, which will celebrate the 65th anniversary of the event, are now being accepted, and will remain open until midnight of January 31, 2012. Canadian productions …
imagineNATIVE and the NFB Seek Proposals
What kind of work is eligible? We’re looking for audacious, innovative, socially relevant interactive media works. Proposals can be for works in any digital medium and genre, including interactive documentary, …
Peabody Awards call for entry
All program entries must be for programs originally broadcast, cablecast or released for non-broadcast distribution during the previous calendar year (January 1-December 31, 2011). The deadline for receipt of entries …