Surely no Canadian artist knows more about storytelling than Sarah Polley. She's been acting onscreen since she was 4. She had her own TV series when she was 8. Then came The Road to Avonlea, and more recently, two adult tales she wrote and directed. So it's initially surprising that she’s now made what I’ll call for the moment a documentary, about her recent discovery that her biological dad wasn’t the dad she'd known all her life.
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Stories We Tell: Sarah Polley and the power of documentary film
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