Julian Carrington

Boy do I not like this news.

DOC Fights for Independent Filmmakers at the CRTC - POV Magazine As Canada awaits results from May's CRTC hearings, there is a looming concern that even favourable determinations might be hobbled by larger forces.

From our new issue: @docorg.bsky.social's @jvcarrington.bsky.social takes over the Policy Matters column and reflects on the implications of looming CRTC decisions and a changing landscape for creatives povmagazine.com/doc-fights-f...

TIFF’s reputation is not as a bastion of curatorial integrity but rarely do you see a flat admission of this sort of favouritism.

I have to say, I was not expecting a relatively candid admission that the film “just didn’t make the cut” in the first instance and that
Avrich was able to demand a second look, explicitly resulting in the CEO overriding the programming staff.

If a player contacts the ball twice in the process of striking a penalty, it has to be re-taken. As Mead slipped, she must have been deemed to have contacted the ball more than once.

Important❗️

DOC Signs Open Letter on Canada’s Digital Sovereignty

DOC has joined civil society organizations across the country in urging the federal government to stand up to foreign tech giants and protect Canada’s digital future.

🔗Read more here: docorg.ca/advocacy/doc...

DOC, IDA, and DFC Announce International Documentary Advocacy Alliance - POV Magazine Leaders from the Documentary Organization of Canada, International Documentary Association, and Documentary Film Council form international advocacy alliance.

At Sheffield, leaders from the Documentary Organization of Canada, International Documentary Association, and Documentary Film Council form international advocacy alliance. povmagazine.com/doc-ida-and-...

On Deck at Hot Docs Cinema - Student protest doc THE ENCAMPMENTS via For Viola, Citizen Minutes for Doors Open, Miyazaki's CASTLE IN THE SKY, Hitchcock's THE BIRDS, band doc BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN, Toronto After Dark founder Adam Lopez remembered with STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN. #toRep

Free tickets to For Viola’s Toronto premiere presentation of THE ENCAMPMENTS are now available.

Join us on Friday, May 23 at 7PM for our screening and filmmaker Q&A.

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Speaking of, For Viola proudly presents the Toronto premiere of THE ENCAMPMENTS on May 23!

This will be a FREE community screening and folks can pre-register now to have the first opportunity to book tickets when they go live:

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Sign up and please spread the word! 🙏🏽

Queer as Punk Review: Music as Resistance in Malaysia - POV Magazine Queer as Punk review: The members of the Malaysian punk band Shh...Diam! create a powerful sound of resistance for LGBTQ rights.

In Queer as Punk, members of the Malaysian LGBTQ punk band Shh…Diam! offer anthems for queer rights. @bgos923.bsky.social reviews #HotDocs25 povmagazine.com/queer-as-pun...

Ultras Review: When Enthusiasm Hits the Fan - POV Magazine Ultras review: the intense world of soccer fandom receives a captivating portrait as love for the game unites ardent fans to extremes.

The intense world of soccer fandom receives a captivating portrait in #Ultras as love for the game unites ardent fans to extremes #HotDocs25 povmagazine.com/ultras-revie...

This message might be more effective had you not characterized Trump’s lawless assault on non-citizens as a “distraction.”

Woof.

Any one of the "11,000 global members with diverse viewpoints" who cannot condemn the physical assault of a filmmaker does not belong in the Academy. This is a woefully insufficient response, literally worse than silence.

“The people here deserve to live peaceful lives. They have a right to feel safe.”

His remarks also included a plea to Canadians to exert political pressure against the Israeli government.

Hamdan Ballal recorded a video for our February community screening of NO OTHER LAND in Toronto, lamenting increasing settler violence, including four attacks on his own home.

Post by Yuval Abraham, announcing what has been done to Hamdan Ballal.

NO OTHER LAND directors.

One of the co-directors of NO OTHER LAND, Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and seized by Israeli soldiers from the ambulance Ballal called, per co-director Yuval Abraham. No one knows where Ballal is. (Ballal is second from right in the below photo.)

Absolute facts; not even close.

Miami Beach Mayor Withdraws Call to End Movie Theater’s Lease After It Screened ‘No Other Land’ Steven Meiner introduced a resolution last week describing the Oscar-winning documentary as antisemitic, but he withdrew it during Wednesday's regular commission meeting after five of the six city com...

Florida mayor backtracks on threats to cinema for screening No Other Land www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Sense might yet prevail?? Thanks for the update!

Wish there was a also a concerted effort among Canadian free speech advocates to seek accountability from TVO with respect to its suppression of RUSSIANS AT WAR…

Truly! Particularly after the backlash to Glazer’s speech last year, I’d kept my hopes low. But you sense the recent effort to bring more international members into the Academy really had an impact here.

For Toronto folks!

Tomorrow’s free screening has gone rush but any empty seats will be made available 15 minutes before show time!

It’s a big cinema (650 seats) so I want to say chances are decent! 🤞🏽

Finally, on Friday, Feb 7, it’s the For Viola presentation of NO OTHER LAND.

At latest count, we’ve had over 300 tickets booked, which puts us on pace to sell out pretty soon.

hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...

Tell a friend and see you there. 🍉

Out Jan 24: Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS is a tour-de-force vehicle for Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Playing a pathologically ornery British Jamaican mother, Jean-Baptiste’s searingly specific portrayal just bypasses chat about “Angry Black Women.”

The Best Actress race is surely over before it’s begun.

From Jan 17, TIFF hosts a run of Johan Grimonprez’s monumental SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT, an essay film that’s somehow both super dense and thrillingly fluid.

It’s about jazz, African independence struggles, Lumumba's assassination, and a CIA psyop to turn iconic musicians into cultural weapons.

UNION plays Hot Docs this coming Sat + Sun. A behind-the-scenes look at the struggle to unionize an NYC Amazon warehouse, it's is revealing, richly nuanced, and hugely timely.

It's also being self-distributed because none of your fave streamers wanted blowback from our billionaire overlords. 🙃

Literally no one asked for this.

But as the humble curator of the For Viola series, I feel compelled to shout out four truly phenomenal films that will be hitting Toronto cinemas in the very near future.