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[9 May 2022]

The filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes discusses his new documentary Dear Audrey, a film that looks at the life and work of filmmaker Martin Duckworth and how he cares for his wife, the photographer Audrey Schirmer after her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, with Joseph Planta.

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[9 Mar 2022]

The writer and producer Geoff D’Eon discusses the new documentary, How the Wild Things Sleep, which debuts Friday, 11 March 2022 on CBC’s The Nature of Things, sleep and its importance to humans and other creatures like primates, bees, geese, and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[1 Oct 2021]

The director Courtney Montour discusses her new NFB documentary Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again, which screens as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival, online and an in person.

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[6 May 2021]

The filmmaker Anthony Banua-Simon discusses his documentary Cane Fire, a historical and critical look at the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, with its depictions in Hollywood films and his own family story (playing at DOXA: Documentary Film Festival, 06-16 May 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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[6 May 2021]

The distinguished filmmaker Nettie Wild discusses her seminal 2002 film FIX: The Story of an Addicted City, as it gets screened again as part of the DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (until 16 May 2021); the film is a look at the raucous debates in Vancouver nearly twenty years ago, as it struggled to start Canada’s first safe injection site, with Joseph Planta.

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[5 May 2021]

The filmmaker Joella Cabalu discusses the new film she’s directed, Koto: The Last Service, that debuts at DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (06-16 May 2021); the film documents the closing of a longtime Campbell River Japanese restaurant, its family at the heart of the film, and the community around it, with Joseph Planta.

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[5 May 2021]

The filmmaker Dominque Keller discusses her new documentary Love: The Last Chapter, depicting love in the later years of six seniors, which is having its world premiere at DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (06-16 May 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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[5 May 2021]

The filmmaker Kent Donguines discusses his new short film Kalinga (Care), screening as part of the DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (06-16 May 2021), about the reality of Filipina caregivers who are separated from their family to care for other families abroad, as well as the personal and societal impact later on, with Joseph Planta.

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[4 May 2021]

The filmmaker Alyx Ayn Arumpac discusses her debut feature documentary Aswang, a critical and powerful look at life on the streets of Manila as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte wages his war on drugs resulting in extrajudicial killings under his watch, that is playing as part of the DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (06-16 May 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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[4 May 2021]

The acclaimed and award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Steinman Sternin discusses her new documentary Gramma and Ginga: The Movie, playing the DOXA: Documentary Film Festival (06-16 May 2021), with Joseph Planta