P4W: Prison for Women included (#3) in “50 Documentaries that Defined TIFF: Looking Back at the Toronto International Film Festival”, by Barbara Goslawski, POV, August 25, 2025.
P4W: Prison for Women included in “Top Twenty Toronto Films since 1981”, by Cameron Bailey, NOW, October 25, 2001.
Hookers on Davie included in “The 100 best Canadian films ever made” by Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail, July 1, 2026.
Calling the Shots included (#9) in “Canadian Film NOW & Then: 35-year retrospective in 29 covers”, feature cover story written by John Harkness, Photo by Susan King, NOW, April 10, 2017.
Shaggie: Letters from Prison included in “Fine local product deserves new and improved exhibition: Best of 1990”, by Cameron Bailey, NOW, January 3, 1990
Sample Press:
- Sex Work Now and Then, Cinema Reignited Podcast revisiting Hookers on Davie, by Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
- Hookers on Davie Blu-ray Review, YouTube, by Sol Turrell.
- My Connection with the “Hookers on Davie” film, YouTube by “A Life Lived Trans” Davie Street survivor Mardi (Mardipantz on Instagram and TikTok).
- Hookers on Davie Blu-ray trailer, YouTube, by Canadian International Pictures (CIP).
- Hookers on Davie [4K UHD] Blu-ray review, by Austin Trunick.
- Hookers on Davie 4K Blu-ray (full detail) review, by Brian Orndorf.
- CIP’s 4K-UHD/Blu-ray booklet review of Hookers on Davie, by Matthew Long.
- Hookers on Davie, a bootleg copy reviewed, by Mark R. Hasan
- Nightworld: An interview with Janis Cole and Holly Dale. Cinema Canada, Number 108, by John Harkness.
- Street People (about the early films), Cinema Canada, by George Csaba Koller.
- Unconditional Complicity: on the Early Films of Janis Cole & Holly Dale, Randy, by Jon Davies.
- The Hidden World of 1970s Yonge Street (about the early shorts), CBC Lite, by Reah Singh.
- A Cinema of Care: The Film’s of Janis Cole and Holly Dale, Cinema Scope, by Cayley James.
- Janis Cole and Holly Dale’s Cinema of Marginality, North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, pages 122 to 143, by Kay Armatage
- P4W: Prison for Women and Hookers on Davie: The Documentaries of Holly Dale and Janis Cole, Cleo Journal, by Sara Wylie.
- Janis Cole & Holly Dale: Empathy in Action, by Cinematheque Vancouver.
- Hookers on Davie (review), Cinema Canada, June 1984, by Joyce Nelson.
- Looking back at the Seminal Hookers on Davie, Create a Stir, by Adrian Rui Hung.
- Hookers on Davie Turns 40, POV, by Matthew Hays.
- Brutal art from mean streets, Saturday Night, by Marshall Delaney. Photo by Ellen Tolmie.
- Thin Line (review), Cinema Canada, by Joyce Nelson.
- Holly Dale/Janis Cole’s P4W: Prison for Women (review), Cinema Canada, by Maurice Yacowar.
- Our People: Janis Cole and Holly Dale in the 1970s, Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, by Jon Davies.
- Holly Dale and Janis Cole (a profile), Body Politic, Number 103, by Sonia Mills.
- Even after over a decade duo’s film on P4W offers food for serious thought, The Whig-Standard, by Jennie Punter.
- Bowie: One in a Million / Director: Janis Cole, Playback, by Marc Glassman.
- Shorts shaping up big (review of Bowie), NOW, by Ingrid Randoja.
- International eyes fall on Annex filmmakers, The Annex Gleaner, by Carlos Warren.
