An interview with Love in the Time of Fentanyl director Colin Askey on documenting front line workers amid the opioid crisis.
Keep ReadingPreviewing the documentaries at Rendezvous with Madness, which runs Oct. 28 - Nov. 7.
Keep ReadingWhy did he do it? Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef, brilliant memoirist and charismatic TV essayist took his own life on June 8, 2018. Tall, thin, sardonically funny, downbeat handsome in a
Keep ReadingCooking can be wonderful therapy. Few people grasped this sentiment quite like Anthony Bourdain did. Yet, tragically, food and cooking couldn’t save Bourdain, whose death by suicide in 2018 shocked the world
Keep ReadingMeet Raymond Martin, or Ray, as everybody calls him. Ray lives in Toronto. The closest thing to a fixed address that Ray has is the intersection of Lakeshore Boulevard and Jameson Avenue
Keep ReadingWe all know that way too many people have died from overdosing on supposedly legal drugs, but have you looked at the numbers lately? In Alex Gibney’s brilliant new investigative series The
Keep ReadingWanita Bahtiyar is one hot mess. The Australian honky tonk singer aims to hit the restart button on a stillborn musical career. Her comeback fuels the offbeat, entertaining, and consistently surprising documentary
Keep Reading“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks the narrator towards the end of Lost Boys. A similar question passed through this reviewer’s mind multiple times whilst screening the film. Lost Boys
Keep ReadingPerhaps one of the most challenging films at Hot Docs this year, but also among the most essential, Margaret Byrne’s Any Given Day masterfully interrogates the ways in which we treat mental
Keep ReadingElle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy weaves together a broad portrait of the impact of settler colonialism on Blackfoot people, through firsthand experiences of people with substance use disorder, and the
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