The POV Hot Docs ‘20 Hub!
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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