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A scene from the documentary Martha, in which director Daniel Schubert is given a more appropriate shirt by his grandmother, Martha Katz. (Courtesy NFB) Two very different scenes in the National Film Board of Canada’s short documentary film Martha –…
Catalina Beraducci plays Noemí Goldberg in the Topic film Noemí Gold. (photo from Topic) For his first feature film, writer and director Dan Rubenstein has done well. Noemí Gold, which is currently streaming exclusively on Topic, is a quietly engaging…
As I watched the National Film Board of Canada short film Old Dog, which preceded a documentary screening at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, I did a double take. Or, rather, a double listen. I knew that voice. And…
Earlier this fall, the National Film Board of Canada released the short Come to your senses, co-created Alicia Eisen and Sophie Jarvis. It is part of NFB’s The Curve, an online series “featuring the talents of 40 creators and filmmakers,…
In Bloomywood, Michael Bloomstein (played and co-created by David Meyers) wanders around Tinseltown asking random people on the street to help him make a movie about his life. (photo from David Meyers) When David Meyers moved from New Jersey to Los…
The character of Guy Nehama, played by Reshef Levi, dreams of becoming a standup comic. (photo from Topic) It took me a couple of episodes, but then I was hooked. Initially, most of the characters on the award-winning Israeli show…
Abigél Szoke and Károly Hajduk in the film Those Who Remained. (photo from Menemsha Films) The Hungarian movie Those Who Remained has been making the rounds at international film festivals, including, in recent weeks, the Victoria International Jewish Film Festival. And…
A still from the documentary Shared Legacies: From the left are Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Maurice Eisendrath and Abraham Joshua Heschel during the march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965. The Victoria Shoah Project held a panel discussion on…
Aaron Friedland, creator and host of the podcast Impact in the 21st Century. (photo from Aaron Friedland) If you’re looking for a new, uplifting podcast to cast away the oppressive weight of pandemic blues, consider Impact in the 21st Century,…
Shai Avivi, left, and Noam Imber are excellent as father and son in Here We Are. (still courtesy VIFF) Understated and poignant are just two of the words I’d use to describe the screeners I watched in anticipation of the…
