Owen grew up in Cape Breton on a diet of public television and repertory screenings, and now writes from Halifax. He covers Canadian film history, the National Film Board tradition and regional scenes that rarely make national headlines.
From Alanis Obomsawin and the Indian Film Crew to Isuma and Tasha Hubbard, a short history of Indigenous documentary in Canada and where to start watching.
Keep readingHow Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx and Pierre Perrault took light cameras and live sound into Quebec life, and how cinéma direct differs from vérité.
Keep readingHow the NFB's Challenge for Change program and the 1967 Fogo Island films changed who controls a documentary, and why the Fogo process still matters.
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