This 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 ReadingBack in 2013, Jason Mojica, who heads Vice Documentary Films, the recently launched new division of Vice Films, encountered Kim Jong-un. He met North Korea’s Blessed Leader during production of Vice on HBO’s Season One
Keep ReadingThierry Garrel, a French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, joined the Research Department of French Television (ORTF) at the age of twenty and went on to become the Head of the
Keep ReadingAn Austrian who lives in Miami Beach, producer-director Rudi Dolezal’s music videos and docs have platformed musicians ranging from Bob Marley to Queen, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie. Best known for
Keep ReadingWell, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you’re gonna have to serve somebody – Bob Dylan Many of Federico Fellini’s films were steeped in the guilt,
Keep ReadingThe next time you walk down Gerrard Street, take note of the bright sparkly motorcycle parked on the south side of the street just opposite Allan Gardens. The bike marks the spot
Keep ReadingThe subject of the 2017 Hot Docs Focus On retrospective, Maya Gallus is a sophisticated, innovative feminist filmmaker. Since her sensational debut feature Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels premiered at TIFF (then called the Festival
Keep ReadingFinnish director Selma Vilhunen has been making films for over a decade. Having worked in both documentary and fiction, she gained acclaim in 2014 for her Oscar-nominated short film Do I Have To
Keep ReadingVeteran filmmaker Alan Zweig returns to the life and hard times of Steve Fonyo in Hope. The doc continues the story that began in Hurt, Zweig’s 2015 film about the fallen Canadian hero
Keep ReadingOn the afternoon of Wednesday, April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers of criminal charges in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. By nightfall, the
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