POV Magazine

POV is Canada's destination for documentary culture. We cover the art and business of documentary, reporting on the best in non-fiction film, photography, new media, and podcasting.

POINT OF VIEW MAGAZINE

PUBLISHER’S NOTES

EDITORIAL

POV Picks: 5 Canadian Docs to See at Home

Balancing Secrets • Revealing the roots of Unloved

Exploring Our Connectedness • Secwepemc filmmaker Sean Stiller returns home

On Beautiful Scars and Reconnected Roots • Musician Tom Wilson comes home

SCRAPPY IDEAS • Rescuing trash from the heap, making it valuable again

The Displaced Narrator • Three new essay films demonstrate the form’s continued strength

John Berger and Michael Dibb • Collaborating on the story’s voice

Is Love Elemental? • Earth. Air. Fire. Water—the four elements are endlessly fascinating

All Eyes on Europe • The Changing Face of Europe at Hot Docs

BEYOND THE COURT • Seven basketball docs score big points

Are You Talking to Me? • Are lecture films the Bran Flakes of documentary?

Shooting Yourself: Film Diaries

Becoming Visible • Sunil Gupta’s Portraits

MAKING IT REAL • Michèle Pearson Clarke’s art

Doc Streams in Oceans of Content • Cue scenario: You have a hankering to see a documentary. After browsing countless audiovisual artefacts, mostly of the unavoidable commercial variety, you finally give in to exhaustion and annoyance. With a sense of familiar defeat, you watch something, anything, that will undoubtedly dissatisfy you.

STREAMING SELECTIONS

In Between the Silence of Silos • Filmmakers talk about the intersectionality of motherhood and filmmaking

A Canadian Photographer in Ukraine • Louie Palu’s Zero Position is a documentary about a terrifying war