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SUMMER ISSUE #86

HOT DOCS

So Hot it’s Cool by Adam Nayman
Toronto’s leading documentary festival offers an abundance of new Canadian films for the novice and the aficionado. Nayman highlights some of this year’s best.

Come Out Swinging by Sarah Keenlyside
Keenlyside profiles director Yung Chang and his new film China Heavyweight. In a sidebar, Adam Nayman looks at three more ‘hot docs’ about fighting: Legend of a Warrior, Fists of Pride and Boxing Girls of Kabul.

A Dream of Communication by Scott Birdwise
Hot Docs’ choice for its retrospective in 2012 is the legendary Québécois filmmaker Michel Brault. Birdwise profiles the octogenarian and analyses his works.

Lessons from the New Game Boys by Victoria Ptashnick
A Sundance-award winner and a Hot Docs Special Presentation, Indie Game portrays the lives of a new breed of game developer. Using Kickstarter to finance their own film, Indie Game’s creators have learned a lot from their profiled subjects.

WHITHER DOCS?

Get Real by Nancy Lanthier
Reality-TV programmes Gastown Gamble and The Real Housewives of Vancouver are attracting big audiences and making money for their producers. Lanthier surveys Vancouver’s factual entertainment scene.

Shifting Sands: the Changing Landscape of Canadian Documentary by Pepita Ferrari
Is it possible for Canadian filmmakers to continue creating point-of-view documentaries? Ferrari investigates.

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

Saving Face—and Humanity—One Documentary at a Time by Janis Cole
Who is Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, the Pakistani-Canadian Oscar-winning filmmaker of Saving Face? Cole finds out.

FOCUS ON FILM FESTIVALS

Dropping the ‘film’ in ‘film festival’: DOXA 2012 by Kim Linekin
A preview of Vancouver’s nitty-gritty festival.

Uncovering Berlinale’s Docs by Melanie Sevcenko
The Berlin Film Festival searches for a prominent niche for its docs.

COLUMNS

Policy Matters: Colour Me Blue by Barri Cohen
Having the CBC's budget cut was depressing enough. Even sadder was the realisation that our national broadcaster hasn't been fulfilling its cultural mandate for years.

Book Review by Nick Gergesha
David Spaner’s Shoot It!

Freeze Frame by Rob Allen
Michel Brault draws a picture.

INTRODUCING THE POV INTERVIEW SERIES ON YOUTUBE!
 The POV Interview Series - In Conversation with Point of View magazine 
Editor Marc Glassman - features original content, not printed in the 
magazine, on our new YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/PointOfViewMagazine 
-- we've launched the series with a three-part interview with WIM 
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