The POV Hot Docs ‘18 Hub!

Posted on May 7th, 2018 • Comments

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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 (Pick up a copy of POV 108 to read!)

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.