Where does Hot Docs stand? Assessing the documentary festival at 30.
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Paul B. Preciado's Orlando: My Political Biography takes a cue from Virginia Woolf to explore identity and imagination in all their forms.
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The Castle is a documentary film dressed up in beguiling elements of fabulous fiction and defies easy categorization with its genre-bending slice of fantastic realism.
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Tatiana Huezo's latest film El Eco is a hypnotic and jubilant portrait of a family of labourer in rural Mexico.
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Documentaries are more widely available now than ever thanks to streaming platforms... but who benefits from algorithm curation? Are viewers hopelessly adrift amid formulaic content?
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Netflix has arguably mastered a formula for documentary series with hits like Tiger King, but will the equation hold in the long run?
Keep ReadingPrague’s premiere documentary film festival launched the year I left the Czech Republic in a Trabant, the petite paper car made famous in a scene in Emir Kustirica’s Black Cat, White Cat,
Keep ReadingFilm histories are highly selective and reflect the biases, tastes and viewing experiences of those who write them. I hope that my following sampling of inward-looking political and activist docs may help
Keep ReadingThis year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival opened with Bee Nation, a crowd-pleasing feel-good story about First Nations kids and their families as they fought like hell to win Canada’s Spelling
Keep ReadingSeveral of the conversations I’ve had about the current state of documentary in Canada at this year’s Hot Docs have turned on issues relating to both the cultural politics and the political
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