Category Archives: Film Festivals

#LunenburgDocFest2025: The Eyes of Ghana

Halifax-born filmmaker Ben Proudfoot has been celebrated for his short docs — he has two Academy Awards for his films The Queen of Basketball and The Last Repair Shop. When I interviewed him for the second one of those he talked at length about his passion for the short-film format. Despite that, his new documentary is…Read More

#AIFF2025: That’s a wrap!

Well, that's my 20th Atlantic International Film Festival in the books as a film journalist, my 22nd just attending — I remember seeing Lost In Translation at my first back in 2003 back when it was just the AFF, before it became something called FIN. Good times. The 45th annual festival was a very good…Read More

Lunenburg Doc Fest 2025 starts today!

Just in case you missed this, local writer and journalist Philip Moscovitch posted a piece at the Halifax Examiner yesterday about The Lunenburg Doc Fest. It's so great to see arts reporting on the Examiner site, which tends to focus on political coverage. Phil spoke with Doc Fest senior programmer and passionate cineast Matthew McCarthy,…Read More

The Knox Office: #AIFF2025 report

Earlier this week I stopped by CBC Information Morning with Portia Clark to talk about what I've been seeing at the Atlantic International Film Festival and the joy of attending a smaller film festival. I shared reviews of Mile End Kicks and Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery, as well as a preview of other films playing…Read More

#AIFF2025: Little Lorraine

The idea of turning a song into a feature film is long overdue. I can think of a dozen candidates for future features, from artists like Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, and Rush. If this Cape Breton picture spawns more of this kind of thing, that will be a hell of a legacy. It is, indeed,…Read More

#TIFF2025: That’s a wrap!

I'm back in Halifax, gearing up for #AIFF2025 and trying to come to terms with what I've seen at the Toronto International Film Festival 2025, the 50th Edition. Not as many features as I'd hoped, but still a wonderful time swaddled in cinema. Here's my list of what I saw, from the ones I most…Read More