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[29 Apr 2019]

The filmmaker Baljit Sangra talks to Joseph Planta about her first feature-length documentary Because We Are Girls, a National Film Board of Canada production, debuting at DOXA, the Documentary Film Festival.

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[25 Feb 2019]

The filmmaker Cat Mills discusses her new documentary Biker Bob’s Posthumous Adventure, working with CBC Short Docs, and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[6 Dec 2018]

The acclaimed filmmaker and author Astra Taylor discusses her new documentary film What is Democracy? (NFB, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

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[21 Nov 2018]

The history of two Vancouver waterfront communities on the fringe, Surrey’s Bridgeview and the North Shore’s Maplewood Mudflats are recounted in the new book by Jean Walton, Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver (New Star Books, 2018), which she discusses with Joseph Planta.

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[5 Nov 2018]

The filmmaker Melanie Wood discusses her new series on Knowledge, Living in HOpe (airing Tuesdays in November at 9pm), a documentary looking at the patients, healthcare providers, and facilities at North Vancouver’s HOpe Centre, an in and outpatient mental health facility, with Joseph Planta.

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[1 Oct 2018]

The award-winning filmmaker Christy Garland discusses her new documentary What Walaa Wants, that screens at the Vancouver International Film Festival (Monday, 01 October 2018 at 10.30am, and Wednesday, 03 October 2018 at 9.15pm), with Joseph Planta.

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[25 Jun 2018]

The filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper discuss their new documentary Metamorphosis, a National Film Board of Canada co-production, with Joseph Planta.

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[21 May 2018]

The filmmaker and veteran journalist George Orr discusses his forthcoming documentary The Bridge, a film that marks the 60th anniversary of the collapse of the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing (debuting at the Vancity Theatre, 17 June 2018), the previously unseen footage therein, making films and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[9 May 2018]

The filmmaker Louise BigEagle discusses her film To Wake Up the Nakota Language, which screens at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, with Joseph Planta.

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[8 May 2018]

The filmmaker Asinnajaq discusses her short film Three Thousand, screening at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Wednesday, 09 May, and Friday, 11 May 2018), her work, and more, with Joseph Planta.