Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival

"Film and most especially documentary film is the ultimate empathy machine. It allows us to get a window into other people’s lives and to experience places,... people and things that we would never have the opportunity to normally. A good documentary, urges us to reconsider our relationship to the moving image medium, and question what constitutes ‘reality.’ I feel that documentaries have so much to teach us as humans, not only about other people, but also ourselves." - David Knipe, Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival programmer See more

Our 11th Annual Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival kicks off tomorrow with Gimme Some Truth: Freedom Road: Shoal Lake 40, Angelina McLeod’s five-film series presenting powerful accounts of lived history from band members of Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation; Gimme Some Truth: Chulas Fronteras & Del Mero Corazon a zesty introduction to the music and culture of the Texas-Mexico border; and Gimme Some Truth: A Bigger Splash an intimate an innovative film about artist David Hockney. https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/the-11th-annual-gimme-so/

The 11th Annual Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival (November 5-10) Six Days Packed with Documentary Premieres, New Restorations, Special Guests, Master Lectures and Workshops! The WORLD PREMIERE of Manitoba director Angelina McLeod’s National Film Board of Canada-produced five-part short film series Freedom Road kicks off the 11th Annual Gimme Some Truth Festival at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Tuesday, November 5, 7pm with doors opening 6:30 pm. ...Continue reading

We are now accepting Canadian documentary submissions for the 2019 edition of the Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival to be held November 6 10, 2019. Please help spread the word! http://gimmesometruth.ca/accepting-submissions-gimme-truth-