One of the highlights of Hot Docs 2018 was the International Premiere of director-producer’s Liz Garbus’s The Fourth Estate, an ambitious exploration of The New York Times as the publication’s staff grapples
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In Faith Hope Love, a new documentary that just premiered at the 25th edition of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, director Katja Fedulova examines the role of women in modern-day Russia.
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Grant Baldwin's This Mountain Life is a thrilling and beautifully shot odyssey through the Coastal Mountains of British Columbia.
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True and unabashed passion is always a pleasure to encounter in a filmmaker. This enthusiasm makes Sparaga’s new film United We Fan, which has its world premiere at Hot Docs, such a
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"I started my career as a journalist and I still think what I’m doing is a form of journalism. I think it’s a career of asking questions and a career of curiosity,"
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Few filmmakers have the legacy and longevity as Hot Docs' 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award winner Barbara Kopple. POV offers an appreciation of her works, including Harlan County, USA, American Dream, Shut Up
Keep ReadingAsk Samara Chadwick how she describes her high school years and the director admits she often poses the query herself. “It’s a question that I was asking people during the first interviews,”
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Yuqi Kang has made a film that’s rich in its appreciation of the vagaries of life—and sadness is only one of many emotions evoked in A Little Wisdom.
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From the first shot of Jean-François Caissy’sFirst Stripes, you know you’re in for something more interesting than the usual Hot Docs fare.
Keep ReadingThe old-fable existences are no more The fascinating race has emigrated The fair humanities of old religions That had their haunt in date or piny mountain Or chasms and watery depths —
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