Professor at Sheridan College, Associate Programmer of Hot Docs and Programmer of SYFF (the Syrian Film Festival of Toronto), Toronto-based filmmaker’s Aisha Jamal’s short films have been screened in festivals worldwide. With a focus on
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Female Voices in the News
Catherine Hardwicke, “one of the most powerful female voices in Hollywood”, as TIFF’s Theresa Scandiffio notes, will take part in a special In Conversation With . . . event at TIFF Bell Lightbox on July
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HUSH (Review)
At the core of this documentary is a debate, “not on the morality of abortion, but on the morality of telling the truth about it”, as one medical expert says toward the end. Filmmaker Punam
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Controversial Documentary HUSH to be Released
A pro-information documentary by Director Punam Kumar Gill, HUSH takes on the subject of abortion and its long term health effects, physical and mental. Sure to provide an informative look into modern life, Gill’s documentary
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Beyond National Aboriginal Day
National Aboriginal Day 2016 (June 21st) saw announcements of several initiatives that will work to give more of a voice, through film and other media, to the First Nations of this country. CBC Docs (via
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Survivors Rowe (Review with Trailer)
Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher’s short documentary Survivors Rowe focuses on the man that links the film’s three interviewees: Priest Ralph Rowe. In the 1970s, Rowe came to Angling Lake in Northern Ontario by seaplane to
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