The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is once again spotlighting powerful storytelling, and this year, Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again stands out as a deeply personal and timely premiere. Screening on May 3
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DOXA- Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
“He went down as Tom and he returned as Tamio. That name shift conveys volumes.” Sometimes it is necessary, even vital to help someone through their own trauma before you can adequately address your own.
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DOXA: Visit the World’s Best Cinema with THE MOVIE MAN
“If I wanted to be successful, I never would’ve stayed in Kinmount and built a theatre…” It seems beyond belief that such a hardcore cineaste such as myself could’ve gone his entire life without at
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DOXA: BIG FIGHT IN LITTLE CHINATOWN
“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”, so goes the final line of Robert Towne’s screenplay for the classic 1974 film in which the titular “Chinatown” is more of a defeatist state of mind than an actual
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DOXA Twoview
Shaun has done a little bit of DOXA in a review, and now so am I. So here is a double on two documentaries I saw at DOXA this year. Dear Jackie – Starting out
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DOXA: WE DON’T DANCE FOR NOTHING
I was fortunate enough to visit Hong Kong before both the pandemic and the 2019 Freedom protests that rocked the former island colony to its core. I observed many things while there: dense urbanism, endless
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