Yintah – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

HOT DOCS 2024: Feminist Wrap – Emma Badame reports

May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 Emma Badame Hot Docs 2024, Hot Docs International Film Festival, Iris Ng, toronto, Wet’suwet’en First Nation, Yintah

Of this year’s slate of 168 films, 54% of them featured women behind the camera. Many focussed in on lived experiences of those they admire (Helen and the Bear) or intriguing names both big and small (A Photographic Memory); others shone the spotlight on the oppressed or inspired (Nice Ladies), LGBTQ+ trailblazers (Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story), the people fighting for justice (The Sharp End of Peace) or just a better world (Once Upon a Time in a Forest), or just the consistently curious (Synchrony). As it does every year, the festival wrapped with the announcement of this year’s cohort of award winners. 15 prizes were handed out in recognition of outstanding Canadian and International contribution to the documentary field, nine of which went to female filmmakers

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TRUE/FALSE Film Fest Wrap – Diane Carson reports

March 6, 2024March 7, 2024 Diane Carson Agent of Happiness, Daughters, documentaries, Ibelin, TRU/FALSE, true/false film festival, union, Yintah

The annual True/False Film Festival, always the first weekend in March, in Columbia, Missouri, offered its always impressive, international documentaries championing (per the T/F mission) “the challenge of interpreting reality on screen with playfulness, sensitivity, discipline, and daring imagination.” This year’s thirty-three feature and twenty-six short films, a global treasure trove, address important issues in analytical, accessible, and engaging ways.