The POV Hot Docs ‘20 Hub!

Posted on May 27th, 2020 • Comments

Stay tuned to the POV Hot Docs hub for more coverage from the festival, and be sure to follow POV on Twitter and Facebook for updates.

Introduction – Marc Glassman

• POV’s editor says this year’s festival is “successful at a distance.” How does one navigate the online festival experience?

Features and Interviews

• The POV Interview: Mira Burt-Wintonick on Wintopia – Marc Glassman
  -In our new cover story, POV’s editor discusses a new film that is a fitting tribute to Canada’s “documentary ambassador” Peter Wintonick by his daughter Mira.

• Nostalgia for City Life: Jean-François Lesage on Prayer for a Lost Mitten – Pat Mullen
  -The director discusses his winner for Hot Docs’ Best Canadian Feature Award and the lost pleasures of urban life.

• Hot Dogs: Elizabeth Lo Discusses her Festival Winner Stray – Pat Mullen
  -An interview with the director on her exquisitely-shot portrait of dogs in Istanbul, which won the prize for Best International Feature.

• Giving a Lift: Jean-Simon Chartier on They Call Me Dr. Miami – Pat Mullen
  -Chartier’s film profiles a social-media savvy plastic surgeon and humorously opens up conversations about body image, sexism, and selfie culture.

• Jerry Rothwell and David Mitchell on The Reason I Jump and Rethinking Autism – PM
  -Doc gives Naoki Higashida’s ground-breaking book about the experiences of people with autism a film treatment

• From Kenya with Love and Fear – Liam Lacey
  -Director Sam Soko’s Softie, this year’s opening night selection for Hot Docs, profiles photojournalist and activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi.

• Michèle Stephenson on Stateless and the Battle of Narratives – PM
  -The director discusses her winner of Hot Docs’ Special Jury Prize for Canadian features, a compelling study of institutionalized racism past and present.

• Judy! Judy! Judy! – Matthew Hays
  -When Mike Hoolboom decided he was going to make a documentary about Judy Rebick, two Canadian cultural institutions collided. The result is the beautiful and heartfelt Judy Versus Capitalism.

• The Forbidden Reel: Passion Over Politics – Victor Stiff
  -Ariel Nasr’s new NFB film The Forbidden Reel shares rare excerpts from classic Afghan cinema and images of life pre-Taliban.

• Sona Rising – MH
  -In Shut Up Sona, filmmaker Deepti Gupta profiles one of India’s most popular and controversial singers.

• POV Interview: Steve James on City So Real – Jason Gorber
  -The acclaimed director discusses his new doc-series about Chicago’s mayoral election, along with some thoughts on The Wire, Hoop Dreams, and avoiding gotcha moments.

• Crimes of the State – MH
  -A family relives its nightmare in Trevor Birney’s The Dakota Entrapment Tapes.

• Radical Health: A Threat to the Nation – Dina Lobo
  -Mia Donovan discusses her new film Dope Is Death.

• Movies with Mom – DL
  -Claude Demers discusses his award-winning film A Woman, My Mother.

• Strokes of Insight: Benjamin Ree discusses The Painter and the Thief – JG
  -The director of the Sundance sensation on crafting parallel stories and bringing this unusual true crime tale to the screen.

• Hot Docs Industry – Virtually – Maurie Alioff
  -A report on Hot Docs Industry’s online edition including the Forum, Zooms, Hangouts, and lots of COVID-related uncertainty.

• “Paying It Forward” – Susan G. Cole
  -Filmmakers Ali Weinstein, Lulu Wei, and Cornelia Principe discuss the Hot Docs selections #BLESSED and There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace and the role of mentorship. (Pick up a copy of our new issue to read!)

• “Raymonde Provencher Tells Stories that Need to Be Told” – Judy Wolfe
  -Read a profile about the award winning Quebecoise filmmaker and Focus On honouree for Hot Docs 2021. (Pick up a copy of our new issue to read!)

In Review

• The 8th – SC
• 9/11 Kids – PM
• All that I Am – JG
• Always Amber – IC
• Bare – PM
• Breaking the Silence – SC
• Bulletproof – LL
• Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open – LL
• The Earth Is Blue as an Orange – IC
• Eddy’s Kingdom – LL
• Fadma: Even Ants Have Wings – TH
• Finding Sally – PM
• First We Eat – SC
• For the Love of Rutland – PM
• The Giverny Document – MA
• Her Mothers – SC
• Hong Kong Moments – SC
• I Am Samuel – PM
• I Want You If You Dare – SC
• Immortal – IC
• Influence – SC
• Keyboard Fantasies – SC
• L.A. Tea Time – PM
• Lessons of Love – TH
• Love and Fury – PM
• Love & Stuff – LL
• Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art – PM
• Meat the Future – MG
• Mein Vietnam -PM
• The Painter and the Thief – JG
• A Pleasure, Comrades! – IC
• Res Creata – Humans and Other Animals – IC
• Reunited – IC
• The School of Housewives – TH
• Tales from a Prison Cell – PM
• Two Gods – JG.
• Under the Same Sun – LL
• The Wall of Shadows – PM
• The Walrus and the Whistleblower – PM
• Welcome to Chechnya – IC
• Wood – PM
• The World Is Bright – SC
• Zero – TH

News

• The Walrus and the Whistleblower Wins Audience Award
• Audience Award rankings – June 6
• Audience Award rankings – June 5
• Audience Award rankings – June 4
• Audience Award rankings – June 3
• Audience Award rankings – June 2
• Audience Award rankings – June 1
• A Prayer for a Lost Mitten and Stray lead award winners
• Bob Moore Named Recipient of 2020 Don Haig Award