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Helen Lawrence is an artistic flop

Critic Paul Durras says Stan Douglas and Chris Haddock’s heavily funded, faux “noir” concoction Helen Lawrence has all the emotional impact of a Power Point presentation.

Chief Bev Sellars wins Ryga Award

The chief of the Xat’sull First Nation, Bev Sellars has won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness for her residential school memoir, They Called Me Number One.

One author, four trailers

Novelist Genni Gunn describes her involvements with four video trailers (two for books, one for an opera, and one for a feature film)—all based on her work.

Nobel winners on Stonehenge

A new book by UBC professor of psychiatry, Harry Karlinsky, imagines attempts by Nobel Prize laureates to explain why and how Stonehenge was constructed.

One hour doc on Tomson Highway

Tom Shandel’s film examines the making of Tomson Highway’s play Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout about Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier’s visit to Kamloops in 1910.