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	<description>ramble on, new documentary</description>
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		<title>Baby Flicks</title>
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Nifty idea. To promote the release of BABIES, Focus Features commissioned several &#8220;indie&#8221; filmmakers to make short vignettes featuring their own babies. A new genre is born.
Though, Stan Brakhage&#8217;s WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING set the precedent, not to mention the benchmark. Fond memories of watching this in film school, and somebody asking our prof, &#8220;Is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=403</link>
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		<title>Finland&#8217;s Macho Identity Crisis</title>
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It was at dinner last Fall with two Finnish colleagues, a male and a female, that I first  learned of the crisis in Finnish masculinity. The typical Finnish male, I was told, was adrift, disorientated in a culture of gregarious, dominant, upwardly mobile women. We had some fun with the notion, playing on cliches of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=394</link>
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		<title>Sky high on reality</title>
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- from INTO GREAT SILENCE
Sky Sitney, Director of Programming at Silverdocs, has sent us her list of  essential nonfiction works from the past decade (give or take). It seems to split between doc masters and stunning debuts, with a nice balance of poetry (form) and politics (content). Silverdocs is one of several documentary festivals in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=381</link>
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		<title>Veton&#8217;s essentials</title>
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- the riverbed cinema at Dokufest. (photo taken by Veton Nurkollari)
Veton Nurkollari is not only one of my favourite people in the festival community, Dokufest, the festival he runs in Prizen, Kosovo, remains the fondest experience I&#8217;ve had on the circuit. The city has a special energy and warmth, boosted by the fact that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=367</link>
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		<title>Tue Steen Müller &#8211; East Beats West</title>
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- from CZECH DREAM
In the second entry in the Ripping Reality series of &#8220;essential works,&#8221; Tue Steen Müller  directs our attention to the documentary new wave(s) as manifested in Central and Eastern Europe. Indeed, not unlike the way related strains of Direct Cinema/Cinéma Vérité/Free Cinema grew in the last great flourishing of documentary cinema (roughly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=354</link>
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		<title>Daddy, Dearest</title>
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- from SINS OF MY FATHER. Tough to top Pablo Escobar, bad dad wise&#8230;but doable.
While the theme programme at Hot Docs this year is SMALL ACTS, a selection of  films based around acts of kindness, leadership and all around goodness, the unofficial theme is certainly fatherhood. We have twelve films dealing very directly with fathers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=341</link>
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		<title>Steven Markovitz rips some reality</title>
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- from FAMILY (Sami Saif, Phie Ambo, Denmark, 2001)
As part of the coalescing Ripping Reality project, we asked festival programmers from around the world to send us lists of contemporary works they consider to be essential to the new documentary. From these we selected ten for a modest retro at this year&#8217;s Hot Docs.
Again, Ripping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=323</link>
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		<title>Salutation 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few words written for this year&#8217;s Hot Docs programme book&#8230;.
I bid you to a one-man revolution -
The only revolution that is coming.
- Robert Frost, from &#8220;Build Soil: A Political Pastoral&#8221;
&#8220;If we find the consequences of our arrogant ignorance to be humbling, and we are humbled, then we have at hand the first fact of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=318</link>
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		<title>TDF Observer Deadline Looms</title>
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For those looking for a snapshot of the current state of documentary funding, a preview of 28 upcoming productions at pitch  or production stage, and endless opportunities for professional insights and networking, I recommend registering as an Observer at Hot Docs&#8217; Toronto Documentary Forum. The deadline is this Friday, March 19.
In other Hot Docs news, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=312</link>
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		<title>CATFISH (Destroy This Post After Reading)</title>
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While the juicy, spoiler susceptible story has been the focus of first responses to CATFISH, the sensation of Sundance TwentyTen, its the zippy storytelling style itself that caught my eye.
Facebook, Google Maps, Iphones, email, texts, instant messaging, etc. are not only the basis of the film&#8217;s content, they are its form. CATFISH may be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seafar.ca/?p=299</link>
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