The POV Hot Docs ‘18 Hub!
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Introduction
- Hot Docs Celebrates Silver – Marc Glassman
-What does Hot Docs have in store for its silver anniversary?
- A Happy Reality: another weekend of Hot Docs – MG
-Editor Marc Glassman offers his top picks for the rush line on the last weekend of the festival.
Features and Interviews
- The Hottest of Hot Docs – Marc Glassman (MG) and Pat Mullen (PM)
-Recalling some of the finest films—and moments—from the festival’s first 25 years.
- Interview: Katja Fedulova Talks _Faith, Hope, Love – Anatasia Akulinina
-Director Katja Fedulova discusses women’s rights, #MeToo, and smashing the patriarchy with new doc Faith Hope Love.
- The Fairy Faith: In the Realm of Little People – Maurie Alioff (MA)
-Revisit this 2001 Take One feature about Focus On honouree John Walker’s The Fairy Faith.
- Liz Garbus and Trying to Print All the News that Fits – MA
-Liz Garbus discusses her doc series The Fourth Estate and shooting in The New York Times in the age of Trump.
- The POV Interview: Ina Fichman – MG
-This year’s Don Haig Award winner on her career in documentary.
- The POV Interview: John Walker – MG
-Revisit this in-depth interview with Hot Docs’ Focus On honouree John Walker
- More than a Little Wisdom – MG
-Previewing Yuqi Kang’s A Little Wisdom.
- Exclusive Interview: Morgan Neville Talks Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Jason Gorber
-The Oscar winning director discusses his acclaimed documentary about Fred Rogers.
- Five Transgressive, Transcendent Points about Trans Representation – Matthew Hays
- Hot Docs selection Transformer and This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous are among docs breaking ground for trans-representation. (Pick up a copy of POV 108 to read!)
- The Fog of Class War – Liam Lacey (LL)
-On Barbara Kopple’s first Oscar winner Harlan County, USA (Pick up a copy of POV 108 to read!)
- An Acadian Tragedy: Samara Chadwick’s 1999 – PM
-Samara Chadwick returns to a haunting chapter of her past in this revelatory film.
- Ain’t that America: The Films of Barbara Kopple – PM
-An appreciation of this year’s Outstanding Achievement Retrospective recipient, Barbara Kopple.
- Power to the People: Shasha Nakhai’s Take Light – PM
-Nakhai investigates the energy crisis in Nigeria by returning to her hometown of Port Harcourt. (Pick up a copy of POV 108 to read!)
- Rocky Mountain High: Grant Baldwin’s This Mountain Life – PM
-Baldwin discusses his film about a mother/daughter trek through the Rockies and the power of the mountain life.
- A Song of Reconciliation: The Power of Gurrumul – PM
-Director Paul Williams and producer Shannon Swan talk Gurrumul.
- Tube Stakes: Michael Sparaga’s United We Fan – PM
-Director Michael Sparaga discusses his doc about passionate fans who campaign to save their favourite TV shows.
- Food for Thought: Maya Gallus’s The Heat – PM
-Maya Gallus discusses her Hot Docs opener The Heat, which spotlights female chefs breaking through a traditionally male-dominated field.
- Docs and #MeToo – Chelsea Phillips-Carr
-Hot Docs selections Slut or Nut, Primas, and Yours in Sisterhood develop a new language to discuss sexual assault. (Pick up a copy of POV 108 to read!)
- How We Made Slut or Nut: The Diary of a Rape Trial – Kelly Showker
-Behind the scenes on a cutting-edge new Canadian doc
In Review
- 4 Years in 10 Minutes – Daniel Glassman (DG)
- 93 Queen – MA
- The Accountant of Auschwitz – MA
- Active Measures – MA
- Afghan Cycles – Amy Siegel
- Alt-Right: Age of Rage – MA
- The American Meme – PM
- Anote’s Ark – PM
- The Artist and the Pervert – LL
- Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground – DG
- Bathtubs Over Broadway – PM
- Behind the Curve – MA
- The Beksinskis: A Sound and Picture Album – DG
- The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man – LL
- Bisbee ’17 – DG
- Braguino – DG
- Call Her Ganda – PM
- Chef Flynn – JB
- Constructing Albert – PM
- The Corporation – Jason Anderson
- The Distant Barking of Dogs – DG
- Don’t Be Nice – PM
- Eternity Never Surrendered – PM
- Eviction Notice – PM
- Exit Music – LL
- First Stripes – DG
- Golden Dawn Girls – MA
- Grit – PM
- The Guardians – CPC
- Harvest Moon – PM
- Havarie – Tyler Prozeniuk
- The Heat – PM
- Hugo – CPC
- I, Dolours – CPC
- I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story – PM
- I’m Leaving Now – CPC
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance – MG
- King Lear – CPC
- Kinshasa Makambo – DG
- Laila at the Bridge – LL
- Letter from Masanjia – PM
- Love, Gilda – PM
- Love, Scott – CPC
- Manufactured Landscapes – PM
- McQueen – PM
- Minding the Gap – LL
- Miss Sharon Jones! – PM
- Mr. SOUL! – AS
- More Human than Human – MA
- My Mother’s Letters – PM
- My War – LL
- Netizens – PM
- The Night of All Nights – CPC
- Nothing without Us: The Women who will end AIDS – AS
- Obscuro Barroco – DG
- On Her Shoulders – PM
- Our New President – MA
- Over the Limit – CPC
- Pick of the Litter – PM
- Playing Hard – PM
- Prince’s Tale – PM
- The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret – PM
- The Silence of Others – LL
- The Silver Branch – LL
- Snowbirds – PM
- The Strange Sound of Happiness – PM
- Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie – MA
- The Trolley – JG
- Turning Tables – PM
- Victory Day – DG
- Warrior Women – CPC
- What Walaa Wants – AS
- Witkin & Witkin – PM
- Women of the Venezuelan Chaos – LL
News
- Hot Docs Award Winners
- Hot Docs Names Ina Fichman as Don Haig Award Recipient
- Audience Award Rankings – May 6
- Audience Award Rankings – May 5
- Audience Award Rankings – May 4
- Audience Award Rankings – May 3
- Audience Award Rankings – May 2
- Audience Award Rankings – May 1
- Audience Award Rankings – April 30
- Audience Award Rankings – April 29
- Audience Award Rankings – April 28
Hot Docs runs April 26 to May 6. Please visit hotdocs.ca for more info.