Programme
Non-fiction film: the essays, investigations and portraits worth finding, and the questions they raise about truth and access.
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 documentary makers can protect survivors of violence on camera: ongoing consent, the right to withdraw, disguise methods, secure footage and aftercare.
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 readingMusic documentaries about buskers and outsiders: how they record sound on the street, the ethics of filming people without homes, and three films to start.
Keep readingSix documentaries about children and war, from Promises to For Sama, and the safeguards that should govern any film that asks a child to bear witness.
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.
Keep readingA practical guide to watching documentaries critically: who paid, who opened the door, what was staged, scored or left out, and who gains if you believe it.
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