The POV #HotDocs16 Hub

Posted on April 28th, 2016 • Comments

Stay tuned for ongoing coverage throughout North America’s largest documentary festival!

Introduction

• Hot Docs 2016: It’s Awesome! — Marc Glassman
  -Editor Marc Glassman provides an overview for this year’s festival.

Features:

• Being Wild — Vivian Belik
  -Touring up north with Nettie Wild and her new doc KONELĪNE: our land beautiful.

• Minority Report — Matthew Hays
  -John Walker explores his family history as an Anglophone in Quebec My Country Mon Pays.

• A dialogue between two passengers of Spaceship Earth — Marc Glassman and Kevin McMahon
  -Is the planet sustainable? Director Kevin McMahon and POV’s Marc Glassman engage in an epistolary exchange.

• Pick up a copy of POV’s Spring 2016 issue at the Hot Docs House and Rogers Industry Centre to read more on Hot Docs selections like The League of Exotique Dancers and the work of Hot Docs honouree Rosie Dransfeld.

• The Long Walk of Alanis Obomsawin — Maurie Alioff and Susan Schouten Levine
  -Revisit this 1987 Cinema Canada interview with Obomsawin as her film Incident at Restigouche screens at Hot Docs.

In Review:

• After Circus — Pat Mullen
• Aim for the Roses — PM
• American Movie — Jason Gorber
• Angry Inuk — PM
• Ants on a Shrimp — JG
• The Apology — PM
• Audrey & Daisy — Maurie Alioff
• Bobby Sands: 66 Days — JG
• Brothers — Jonas Jacobs
• Callshop Istanbul — PM
• Cameraperson — JG
• Chasing Asylum — PM
• Check It — MA
• Cheer Up — MA
• City 40 — MA
• Contemporary Color — JJ
• Credit for Murder — MA
• De Palma — JG
• Death By a Thousand Cuts — MA
• Diving Into the Unknown — JG
• Do Not Resist — MA
• A Dog’s Life — PM
• Don Juan — MA
• Dugma: The Button — MA
• The Father, the Son, and the Holy Jihad — MA
• Fireflies in the Abyss — PM
• Future Baby — PM
• The Gatekeeper — PM
• Gleason — PM
• God Knows Where I Am — MA
• Gulîstan, Land of Roses — MA
• Gun Runners — PM
• Holy Hell — JG
• Hoop Dreams — JG
• Hotel Coolgardie — MA
• Hotel Dallas — PM
• How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change) — MA
• How to Prepare for Prison — MA
• I am the Blues — MA
• Incident at Restigouche — MA
• The Incomparable Rose Hartman — PM
• Inquiring Nuns / Chicago Maternity Centre Story — JJ
• The Interrupters — JG
• The Islands and the Whales — PM
• Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest — JJ
• The Last Laugh — JG
• The Legacy of Frida Kahlo — MA
• Life, Animated — JG
• Life Itself — MG
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World — JG
• LoveTrue — MA
• The Man Who Saw Too Much — MA
• Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John — JJ
• Migrant Dreams — JJ
• Mr. Gaga — PM
• Mully — PM
• My Land — PM
• My Scientology Movie — MA
• Natural Disorder — PM
• Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You — JG
• Nuts! — JJ
• Off the Rails — JJ
• Pickle — JG
• The Prison in Twelve Landscapes — PM
• Rabin: In His Own Words — JJ
• Random Acts of Legacy — JJ
• The Revolution Won’t Be Televised — JJ
• Salamanca and Extremos — JJ
• The Seer — JJ
• The Sex Temple — MA
• The Slippers — JG
• Sonita — MA
• Sour Grapes — PM
• Spirit Unforgettable — PM
• Strike a Pose — PM
• Suited / Handsome & Majestic — PM
• Tempest Storm — MA
• Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru — JG
• Tower — JJ
• Unlocking the Cage — JG
• Weiner — JJ

Filmmaker Profiles and Interviews

• Joe Berlinger – Tony Robbins: I am Not Your Guru — JG
• Checking Out the Check It Crew_ — MA
• Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Back Story — MA
• Michelle Desrosier – The Grandfather Drum — Robin McKenna
• Holly Fifer’s ‘The Opposition’: a censored film appears at Hot Docs — MA
• Christy Garland – Cheer Up — RM
• Katja Gauriloff – Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest — RM
• Min Sook Lee – Migrant Dreams — JJ
• Charlie Lyne – Fear Itself — MA
• Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami – Sonita — MA
• Chelsea McMullan – Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John — JJ
• D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus – Unlocking the Cage — JG
• Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque & Nikuusi Elijassiapik – Living with Giants- — PM
• Robin Smith – doc distribution veteran — JJ

Hot Docs runs April 28 – May 8. Visit www.hotdocs.ca for more information.

Want more Hot Docs coverage? Subscribe to POV and read more on docs such as Angry Inuk, How to Build a Time Machine and more in POV #102, out this summer!