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‘A Different Path’ charts creative ways to ditch cars

‘A Different Path’ charts creative ways to ditch cars.

Every year at Toronto's Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, I get blown away by one film -- usually a documentary that hasn't gotten much attention and when I watch it, it's like being under a spell.

Such is the case this time with A Different Path -- an inventive and illuminating documentary made by American artist and musician Monteith McCollum. I don't have enough adjectives to describe the immersive, mesmerizing and magical ride the director brings you on in highlighting the efforts of activists in four locales, challenging our car-centric culture.

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Funding cools but docs still hot

From the film Detropia.

"People keep saying to me 'this is the Golden Age of Documentary,'" sighs Lisa Fitzgibbons, executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). "But there's a huge disconnect between what people think and the reality."

What Fitzgibbons is referring to is the storm of recent bad news that's shredding up the documentary industry in Canada. In the weeks before the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto (April 26 to May 6) -- the largest one in North America -- the industry was hit with announcements of colossal cuts at the NFB, CBC and Telefilm.

Canada vignettes: A love story

Jan 11 2012 - 4:00pm

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NFB Mediatheque
150 John (at Rcihmond)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416.973.3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W

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Made in the late seventies and early eighties, these very short animated films and documentaries introduced us to different aspects of our country's rich history and culture. Who can forget such classics as Faces, Delta Plane, Log Driver's Waltz and Trading Post?

 

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Matching filmmakers with social issues

December 1, 2009
| Pull Focus offers film students and community groups the opportunity to work together to create short documentaries about social issues. We speak with Pull Focus founder Steve Rosenberg.

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Spring 2009's don't miss documentaries

The biggest documentary festival in North America continues to grow exponentially. In 2009 programmers at the annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto sifted through some 2,000 entries to come up with 171 films from 39 countries. Since its inception 16 years ago, Hot Docs remains relevant in the most exhilarating ways.

Here are some stimulating films to watch for on television and at local festivals in cities across Canada:

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