The POV #HotDocs17 Hub!

Posted on May 7th, 2017 • Comments

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

Overview

• Hot Docs 2017: the sizzling festival is back! – Marc Glassman
  - POV’s editor looks at what to expect at this year’s festival.

Features and Interviews:

• Making Bee Nation – Judy Wolfe
  -Lana Šlezić brings her compassionate touch Hot Docs’ opening night film about Indigenous children and a spelling bee.

• Rudi Dolezal and Whitney Houston – Maurie Alioff
  -The co-director of Whitney Houston: Can I Be Me? discusses his new film about the late music icon.

• Federica Di Giacomo and The Exorcists -MA
  -Federica Di Giacomo discusses her exorcism film Libera Nos.

• Message in the Music – Jason Anderson
  -Music plays a central role in three very different films: Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, Resurrecting Hassan and Tokyo Idols. (Pick up a copy of POV 106 to read!)

• The Open Hearts of Red Queens – Barri Cohen
  -Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott’s Red Queen Productions talk to POV about their 10 years of creating award-winning feminist docs. Gallus is the subject of this year’s Focus On retrospective at Hot Docs.

• Global Lenses – Daniel Glassman
  -Diverse docs A Moon of Nickel and Ice, Let There Be Light and My Enemy, My Brother examine issues that affect the world.

• Freeze Frame: Maya Gallus – MG
  -A snapshot of the career of this year’s Focus On subject.

• West Coast Docs – Nancy Lanthier
  -New films The Road Forward and Vancouver: No Fixed Address highlight important stories from West Coast filmmakers Marie Clements and Charles Wilkinson. (Pick up a copy of POV 106 to read!)

• Tony Palmer: Made for Music – Michael McNamara
  -British auteur Palmer, this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award recipient, has etched a career making docs about music. (Pick up a copy of POV 106 to read!)

• The Freshmen – Pat Mullen
  -Memorable first features by Canadian doc directors debuting at Hot Docs include A Better Man, Manic, Mermaids and Integral Man.

• The POV Interview: Alan Zweig Talks Hope – PM
  -Zweig discusses his acclaimed follow-up to Hurt about troubled Canadian hero Steve Fonyo.

• The POV Interview: Lisa Rideout Talks Take a Walk on the Wild Side – PM
  -Rideout discusses her doc about Paddy Alridge, whose store Take a Walk on the Wild Side, which provides a safe and comfortable space for cross-dressing Torontonians.

• Neighbourhood Watch – Adam Nayman
  -Social housing neighbourhoods in Toronto – Regent Park and Villaways – are the focus of new films by Hugh Gibson and Charles Officer. Officer’s Hot Docs premiere Unarmed Verses draws its inspiration from the youth of Villaways, who believe in their original community.

• The POV Interview: Selma Vilhunen Talks Hobbyhorse Revolution – Chelsea Phillips-Carr
  -Oscar nominee discusses her first feature and women in film.

• The Slow Burn: Committed Canadian Documentaries at Hot Docs 2017 – Ezra Winton
  -A look at Canadian documentaries State of Exception, The Road Forward, Manic and Unarmed Verses.

• The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film – Robinder Uppal, Marc Serpa Francoeur
  -An in-depth look at the one-night only event screening by Maple Razsa and Milton Guillén.

In Review

• 69 Minutes of 86 Days – Liam Lacey
• 69 Minutes of 86 Days – DG
• 78/52 – Jason Gorber
• About My Liberty – LL
• Babe, I Hate to Go -PM
• Becoming Bond – PM
• Becoming Who I Was – PM
• Bee Nation – EW
• Bill Nye: Science Guy – MA
• Birth of a Family – PM
• Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World – PM
• Bobbi Jene – PM
• A Cambodian Spring – LL
• Canada the Good? -PM
• The Challenge – LL
• Chasing Coral – JG
• City of Ghosts – JG
• City of Ghosts – DG
• Cold Valley – Jutta Brendemuhl
• The Departure – PM
• Do Donkeys Act? – CP-C
• Eye, Camera – CP-C
• Flames – PM
• Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives – Matt Hays
• The Force – JG
• The Genius and the Opera Singer – PM
• Gilbert – MA
• Give Me Future -MA
• Hobbyhorse Revolution – CP-C
• I Am Another You – MA
• Intent to Destroy – Jovana Jankovic
• Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web – PM
• Last Men in Aleppo – DG
• Libera Nos – MA
• Life to Come – CP-C
• The Lives of Thérèse -CP-C
• Long Strange Trip – PM
• Living the Game – LL
• Machines – JB
• Maison du Bonheur – CP-C
• Memory in Khaki – DG
• Meuthen’s Party – JB
• Mommy Dead and Dearest – PM
• The Monster – CP-C
• Motel -PM
• Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press – JG
• PACmen – JG
• Pecking Order – PM
• Photon – DG
• Pre-Crime – JJ
• Quest – JG
• The Quiet Zone – CP-C
• Raise Your Arms and Twist – MA
• Ramen Heads – CP-C
• Rat Film – DG
• Rebels on Pointe – PM
• Recruiting for Jihad – DG
• Ryuichi Hirokawa: Human Battlefield – LL
• A Room of Her Own – LL
• Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World – JG
• Shiners – LL
• Spettacolo – CP-C
• Spookers – PM
• Step – PM
• Still Tomorrow – PM
• A Story of Sahel Sounds – DG
• Sunday Beauty Queen – LL
• Susanne Bartsch: On Top -PM
• Thank You for the Rain – PM
• Ukiyo-E Heroes – LL
• Whitney: Can I Be Me? – MA
• White Walls Say Nothing -PM
• You’re Soaking In It – PM

Hot Docs runs April 27 – May 7. Visit hotdocs.ca for more information.