Skip to main content

// Blog

Tom Waugh’s definitive book on Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens now on sale, and online for free

Posted by network on Monday, May 16, 2016
Long-serving Cinema Politica Board Member, Dr. Tom Waugh has recently had his newest book, The Conscience of Cinema, published by Amsterdam University Press.
read more

#CPVOD Launch of ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD COMMEMORATES THE NAKBA

Posted by network on Saturday, May 14, 2016
Commemorating the Nakba with our #CPVOD launch of a powerful doc on Israel's collective amnesia.
read more

Watch our newest artist talk with Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Posted by network on Monday, May 09, 2016
Check out our newest artist talk with Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, who won the Hot Docs 2016 Vimeo On Demand Audience Choice Award today for her incredible new doc ANGRY INUK.
read more

RIOTS REFRAMED DIRECTOR FAHIM ALAM ON DOCUMENTARY, PROPAGANDA AND POWER

Posted by network on Monday, May 02, 2016
On the occasion of launching RIOTS REFRAMED online, we are sharing reflections from the film’s director, Fahim Alam, on the subject of documentary and ‘speaking truth to power.’ Photo: Film Pill 2016
read more

Cinema Politica officially launches CP VOD service with 24 films

Posted by network on Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Cinema Politica is thrilled to extend our doc-delivery efforts into the online realm with an initial offering of 24 provocative and unique films on our new VOD platform – a service we are launching today.
read more

Documenting the Rise of Homophobic Fascism: An Interview with GOD'S WILL Director Beata Bubenec

Posted by network on Monday, April 25, 2016
Beata Bubenec, the director behind the compelling and distressing GOD'S WILL, speaks with Cinema Politica about her award-winning documentary.
read more

LOCAL SPOTLIGHT: CINEMA POLITICA RADICAL IMAGINATION - HALIFAX

Posted by network on Wednesday, April 13, 2016
“We want people to begin to link struggles over copyright with struggles over ecological justice and Indigenous rights, because all these struggles are fundamentally interrelated.”
read more

Vote for the 2015 Audience Choice Award!

Posted by network on Wednesday, April 06, 2016
Check out the list and vote for your favourite CP film from among the top docs that screened in the CP network during 2015!
read more

Curators in Conversation: Jesse Wente Discusses Indigenous Programming with Ezra Winton

Posted by network on Monday, April 04, 2016
Left to right: Jesse Wente, Ezra Winton, Alanis Obomsawin, Isabella Weetaluktuk.
The video of the public discussion presented on March 22nd in collaboration with the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia is now available online.
read more

New CP Film on ROAR Magazine’s Channel: MASQUÉE

Posted by network on Monday, April 04, 2016
Cinema Politica’s free streaming series with ROAR Magazine continues with our newest offering: Maxime Faure’s MASQUÉE, a short celebrating the power of art to support social change.
read more

CP Executive Director Svetla Turnin hosts political documentary screenings at the Sofia International Film Festival

Posted by network on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
CP's Executive Director Svetla Turnin. Photo credit: Emily Gan
In addition to co-curating the documentary competition program, Svetla hosted screenings of five CP titles at the Sofia International Film Festival.
read more

New CP Locals: Cinéthique Montmorency, and Friends Of Clayoquot Sound

Posted by network on Monday, March 28, 2016
Cinema Politica is thrilled to welcome our two newest local chapters—Cinéthique Montmorency, and Friends of Clayoquot Sound—to the network!
read more

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH FPFS DIRECTOR ALETHEA ARNAQUQ-BARIL AND CP'S EZRA WINTON NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

Posted by network on Tuesday, March 22, 2016
The roundtable discussion Cultural Representation in the Media Arts, Ethics and Freedom of Expression held on March 16th, 2016 at Concordia University was web-cast and the video is now online.
read more

Jason O’Hara’s RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE on VOD

Posted by network on Wednesday, March 16, 2016
RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE explores the role of music as a community-rallying tool against police brutality in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro - and now you can watch it with Cinema Politica VOD.
read more

FPFS director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and CP's Ezra Winton join a roundtable discussion sparked by OF THE NORTH

Posted by network on Tuesday, March 15, 2016
On March 16, a special roundtable on cultural representation and Indigeneity will take place in Montreal, and will also be livestreamed.
read more
Syndicate content
 

Join us on Facebook