Outtakes Recipes for the Future: Family Archives and Memory Work in Endless Cookie 18 Jun 202529 Sep 2025 Endless Cookie (2025) is a feature animated documentary, directed by Peter and Seth Scriver, that follows two half-brothers —one Indigenous and the other white—on an adventure to create an animated…
Outtakes Intercepted: Resilience through the Barren 23 Jan 202529 Sep 2025 Intercepted is the latest documentary by Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker Oksana Karpovych. Recipient of the Grand Prize award for the National Feature Competition at the RIDM 2024, Intercepted shows the destruction left…
Festival Spotlights… Spotlight on International Resistance and Resilience for Hot Docs 2024 17 May 202429 Sep 2025 For the Hot Docs 2024 festival, I focused on documentaries centered around resistance and resilience. Now, more than ever, apathy and detachment has become a mode of being. We’re presented…
Festival Spotlights… The Digital Ethnographic Potential of Animated Documentaries in Knit’s Island 6 Feb 202429 Sep 2025 In the realm of independent animated productions, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) remains a strong player in North America and an engaging and communal experience for animation lovers, almost…
Outtakes So Much Tenderness: Warm Humanism in a time of Cold Journeys 16 Aug 202329 Sep 2025 Colombian cinema has grown immensely over the last few years, finding and defining its style while diversifying the themes of its stories. Moving away from violence and politically-themed films, we…
Outtakes Return to Seoul: A Ballad of Anger and Recognition 13 Mar 202329 Sep 2025 Bright neon lights shine on Freddie’s face as she is dancing alone through a half-empty bar in Seoul. Even as her body moves frantically, her face seems to have no…
Outtakes Paddington’s Plight: Contended Homes 24 Mar 202229 Sep 2025 I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages.…
Outtakes The Korean Wave 6 Feb 202229 Sep 2025 In lieu of the boom of Korean productions in the past couple of years with Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite winning it all in the Academy Awards and global sensation Squid Game…
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