Mark Myers Explores the Legacy of the CN Tower in ‘The Tower That Built a City’

The Tower that Built a City mixes archival footage with new conversations engaging the tower’s innovative engineers and many Toronto notables. This 50th-anniversary celebration beams with civic pride and connects this singular structure to many of the 6ix’s defining moments over the past half-century. Screened at Hot Docs on May 1st, 2026, Shwayta Sharma chats […]

How ‘Lucid’ Turns Artistic Burnout Into Psychological Horror

With LUCID, co-directors Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall have crafted a striking debut feature that transforms artistic burnout into a surreal and deeply personal psychological horror experience. Shot in Victoria, B.C., and blending 35mm film, Super 8, and DIY punk aesthetics, the film follows a struggling art student whose search for creative inspiration unleashes the […]

Banchi Hanuse on Tracing Loss, Memory, and Indigenous Resilience in ‘Ceremony’

Fresh from winning the Audience Award at SXSW, Canadian Documentary Ceremony is a story of Indigenous resilience and awakening. Ceremony centres around a remote Nuxalk radio station in British Columbia’s Bella Coola Valley. The story unfolds when the radio station reports on the disappearance of the ooligan, a sacred fish, which uncovers a deeper history […]

More of a Chat with Brishkay Ahmed

Brishkay Ahmed is a rare and vital presence in Canadian documentary filmmaking. An Afghan – Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver, Ahmed has spent over a decade venturing where few dare to go. Her work is driven by an unwavering commitment to the women whose stories the world has too often chosen to ignore. Trained in […]

Venturing into the ‘Art of Adventure’ with Filmmaker Alison Reid

‘The Art of Adventure’ is a film which opens a vivid window onto a planet once wild and unscarred. It is also a testament to a bond formed through curiosity, courage and love of nature through the lens of an extraordinary lifelong friendship between world-renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and fearless biologist Bristol Foster.  Through […]