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Julian Carrington

@jvcarrington.bsky.social
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Woke lobbyist (Documentary Organization of Canada) & professional movie nerd • Formerly: Hot Docs; TIFF • Toronto 📍

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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What's at stake if the Canadian government doesn't uphold the terms of the Online Streaming Act? @docorg.bsky.social 's @jvcarrington.bsky.social weighs in with the latest Policy Matters column. 🇨🇦 povmagazine.com/the-governme...
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The Government Must Defend Our Cultural Sovereignty - POV Magazine
What's at stake for creatives in the Canadian screen sector--and Canadian culture more broadly--if the government doesn't uphold the Online Streaming Act? Everything.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. It will be released in cinemas in more than 50 countries in the coming weeks, and then will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free.
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NAZA - official trailer
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"If investment systems rely too heavily on short-term market indicators, documentaries will be undervalued." In our current issue, @docorg.bsky.social's @jvcarrington.bsky.social surveys what's at stake for documentary in a shifting landscape povmagazine.com/isnt-documen...
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Isn’t Documentary a Bulwark for Democracy? - POV Magazine
Conversations at European festivals highlight a documentary ecosystem in a time of structural change with streaming, AI, and new funding models.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
THE VIEWING BOOTH (2019, dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz)
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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...
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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.
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Documentary Organization of Canada @docorg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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...
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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-...
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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.
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Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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: docs.google.com/forms/d/1R7b... Sign up and please spread the word! 🙏🏽
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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...
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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.
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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...
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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.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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.
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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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.)
Post by Yuval Abraham, announcing what has been done to Hamdan Ballal. NO OTHER LAND directors.
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Florida mayor backtracks on threats to cinema for screening No Other Land www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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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...
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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…
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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! 🤞🏽
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
ICYMI: Free Toronto Community Screening - NO OTHER LAND - FEB 7 🍉 For Viola is grateful to present one of 2024’s essential films, which remains without North American distribution despite being one of the year’s most celebrated docs, including a special citation from @torontofilmcritics.bsky.social
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Toronto encore Feb. 7 at Hot Docs' For Viola series if you want to show there's an audience for No Other Land! hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
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For Viola // Free Screening: No Other Land | Hot Docs
Palestinian activist films his community’s destruction by Israeli forces, building an unlikely alliance with a journalist.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 09/01/2025
fyi!
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You should see this.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/12/2024
Truly one of the best essays I’ve read in a while on how Netflix and the streaming model have changed film and television for the worse. Netflix sold investors, reporters, and the public a fantasy that’s not only eroding the film business, but doing its part to degrade film as a cultural medium.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
TORONTO! A little reminder that our For Viola presentation of SEEKING MAVIS BEACON happens this Friday at 7pm. Filmmakers will in attendance and the tickets are FREE! Get yours at: hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
NO OTHER LAND leads the winners at this year's IDA Awards with three wins including Best Documentary Feature povmagazine.com/no-other-lan...
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No Other Land Leads IDA Award Winners - POV Magazine
No Other Land leads the winners of the International Documentary Associations IDA Awards with three prizes including Best Feature Documentary.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We’ve now had over 200 tickets booked for the Toronto community screening of SEEKING MAVIS BEACON! Still plenty of balcony seating tho! Come through!
An image of iconic typing teacher Mavis Beacon wearing shades, basking in the 200 tickets that have been booked for the Toronto community screening of Jazmin Jones’ documentary SEEKING MAVIS BEACON.
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Kay @kadonkadiekay.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Next up at Hot Docs Cinema, FREE screening and Q&A of Jazmin Jones’ SEEKING MAVIS BEACON. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil... Donate if you can to keep this vital screening series, For Viola, going. The team works hard af.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
There is no #cybermonday discount on tickets to SEEKING MAVIS BEACON at the Hot Docs Cinema on December 13 because the tickets are already free. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
An image advertising a free screening + Q&A for SEEKING MAVIS BEACON at the Hot Docs Cinema on December 13 at 7pm.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Attn: #Toronto art / culture / #film folks! The #ForViola community screening series returns to the #HotDocs Cinema on December 13 with a FREE presentation of the fantastically creative and very fun SEEKING MAVIS BEACON! Plus! A Q&A with director Jazmin Jones and collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross.
An image promoting a free screening of the film SEEKING MAVIS BEACON at the Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto, on Friday December 13.An image of SEEKING MAVIS BEACON director Jazmin Jones, who will take part in a post-screening Q&A the Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto, on Friday December 13.An image of SEEKING MAVIS BEACON co-collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross, who will take part in a post-screening Q&A the Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto, on Friday December 13.An of film critic Saffron Maeve, who will moderate a Q&A following the screening of SEEKING MAVIS BEACON at the Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto, on Friday December 13.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 20/09/2024
The full transcript of my interview with Anastasia Trofimova, director of Russians At War — plus, a bit of background on today's Canadaland episode with @parismarx.bsky.social www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/russians-a...
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At War With Russians At War
An interview with filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 18/09/2024
A documentary from a Russian filmmaker is being denounced as pro-Kremlin propaganda. The truth isn't quite so simple: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Justin Ling: What everybody is getting wrong about the year’s most controversial film
"Russians At War" has been denounced as propaganda and praised as anti-war. The truth is somewhere in between.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 16/09/2024
for the Toronto Star, i reviewed the controversial (and great) documentary Russians at War, which is having its delayed TIFF screenings tomorrow
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TIFF cancelled it over threats. Now’s it back on the schedule. Why is ‘Russians at War’ so controversial? Read our four-star review
The film reminds the viewer that these soldiers have also been lied to and abused by self-interested leaders.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Better late than never. Having previously run an unfortunate op-ed by a writer who *had not seen* the film, the Globe here finally provides an informed (and hugely positive) take on RUSSIANS AT WAR. Shame on TVO for capitulating. Ironically, it's Russia that benefits from the film's suppression.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Ok, RUSSIANS AT WAR. It's profoundly bizarre to see *opponents of Russia* calling for the suppression of a film that portrays the Russian military as pathetically dysfunctional. Like the author of this op-ed, the vast majority of those calling the film Russian propaganda *have not seen the film.*
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Having departed Hot Docs just over a year ago, I can say Soraya is enormously perceptive as to the causes of the collapse. A shame it’s taken such dire circumstances to invite wider scrutiny, but this piece is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand Toronto’s arts crisis.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Perhaps the most important and so-far exclusive detail in POV’s account: where some framings have invited the perception that the outgoing Artistic Director “joined” the departing programmers in stepping down, this clarifies that the programmers resigned en masse in *protest* of the AD’s leadership.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Some excellent work from POV here, reporting out some of the whys that are otherwise so hard to come by at the moment.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Showing up to protest specific programming is one thing, threatening violence is another. Unjustifiable. And thoroughly counterproductive.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
“For me, this is not a film about the past,” Mr. Glazer told The Guardian. “It’s trying to be about now, and about us and our similarity to the perpetrators, not our similarity to the victims.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/o...
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Opinion | The Oscar Contender That Won’t Let Us Look Away
“Zone of Interest” avoids the pitfalls of fictionalizing the Holocaust. It is also unsettlingly relevant to our current moment.
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Racial Equity Media Collective @remcorg.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
With the humanitarian crisis in Gaza now in its fourth month, REMC is troubled by accounts of censorious and punitive actions taken toward Canadian journalists, artists, and cultural workers who have reported on or responded to the conflict. Read our full statement: www.re-mc.org/statement011...
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
I wrote some words for Charles Officer.
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For Charles
Another terrible loss for Canadian cinema, and people in general.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 22/11/2023
This essay by a Palestinian attorney, which the Harvard Law Review banned, is just amazing
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The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza
The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
Unsure Toronto's bsky userbase warrants plugging a local event—but why not? On Aug 12, join us for a 🆓 film clash for the ages, featuring the Canadian cinema premiere of Steve McQueen's LOVERS ROCK! *Limited* 🎟️ available—but likely not for long! hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films/fv-patty-…
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Julian Carrington @jvcarrington.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
Oof. Of course @cbcpitchbot.bsky.social is on Bluesky before the actual CBC.
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