Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim captures the life and work of a screen icon in Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On celebrates the life and music of the Oscar winning icon.

POV Issue #116 spotlights archive and the elements with a look at docs like Fire of Love, Becoming Cousteau, and Jane, which engage us with the wonders of the natural world through images left behind by curious minds. This issue also looks at new Canadian docs on the festival circuit like Sean Stiller's Returning Home, Barri Cohen's Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children, Shane Belcourt's Beautiful Scars, and Stacey Tenenbaum's Scrap. Photographers Michele Pearson Clarke and Sunil Gupta are profiled, while deep dive essays consider Ways of Seeing upon its 50th anniversary, basketball docs, the diary film, and more!

Joannie Lafrenières Gabor pays tribute to prolific documentary photographer Gabor Szilasi. Plus Jonas Poher Rasmussen discusses Flee, POV surveys the state of Indigenous film production, celebrity chefs are considered, Alanis Obomsawin is celebrated, and more!

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is a game-changer for community-based filmmaking. Plus a first look at Hot Docs and DOXA hits, a deep dive on the “Netflix formula” with alternatives for doc fans, Chantal Akerman's journey, Black trailblazers, and more!

Highlights in this issue include a cover story on Michelle Latimer and her new documentary Inconvenient Indian, as well as Werner Herzog in conversation about his new film Fireball, deep dives on films like The New Corporation and Nomadland, and essays looking at documentary and police brutality, #BlackLivesMatter, and photography in the time of COVID.

Director Mira Burt-Wintonick discusses her new film Wintopia about her late filmmaker father Peter Wintonick, dubbed "Canada's documentary ambassador." This issue also features first looks at films debuting on the 2020 festival circuit amid COVID-19, including Ariel Nasr's The Forbidden Reel, which restores Afghan film history, and Sam Soko's Softie about the "Kenyan Bernie Sanders." Additional questions about film and festival life appear in an essay on True/False 2020, which was one of the final festivals to run in full before the pandemic brought the industry to a halt. Other highlights in the issue include a spotlight on Indigenous photography, a guide to the essential films by Agnès Varda, and a look at the growing trend of films based on a true story as the popularity for documentary evolves.

'Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band' celebrates a Canadian music icon. Rocker Robertson and the film's director Daniel Roher join us to discuss their documentary, which was selected to open the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. This issue also features conversations with directors Alanis Obomsawin (Jordan River Anderson: The Messenger), Yung Chang (This Is Not a Movie), and Theodore Ushev (The Physics of Sorrow), and Academy Award winner Asif Kapadia (Diego Maradona)  along with essays on memorable doc characters and the progress for women in film as the industry pushes for change.

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POV is Canada's destination for documentary culture. POV Magazine covers the art and business of documentary in print and online, which includes film, photography, and new media. We provide informed and engaged commentary that connects documentaries with the issues of today. This commentary takes the form of essays, profiles of new films, filmmaker interviews, reviews and columns on current affairs, photography, podcasting, interactive media, and film policy. We value truth and independence in news media, and the long history of documentary in Canada for providing a voice to filmmakers from coast to coast.

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