Four new National Film Board of Canada documentaries to be featured online at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival

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      The National Film Board of Canada has announced that it will have four documentaries premiering at this year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which streams online across Canada from May 6 to 16.

      The NFB presentation include the world premiere of Calgary-based director Dominique Keller's new Long Term Care-themed vérité documentary Love: The Last Chapter.

      The other National Fim Board documentaries at DOXA are all B.C. premieres. They include Into Light, Sheona McDonald’s new short doc about a mother and child navigating the complexities of gender identity; Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams's Someone Like Me follows a group of young queer people from Vancouver as they help a gay asylum seeker from Uganda find refuge in Canada; and Elle-Máijá TailfeathersKímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, about the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta, a Blackfoot community facing the devastating impacts of substance abuse.

      For more info on the festival look here.

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