The POV team marks 30 years of Hot Docs by looking back at some of the many names and documentaries that defined the festival.
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Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World revisits the making of a 1969 Toronto festival that featured the first public appearance of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band.
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An interview with Brett Morgen on Moonage Daydream and telling the story of David Bowie in a kaleidoscopic montage unlike anything you've seen before.
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Two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple discusses her Iranian Hostage Crisis doc Desert One, interviewing President Jimmy Carter, Argo, and a career in documentary.
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Every once in a while, people appear on the political stage with compelling personal narratives and charisma to spare. They’re dedicated and passionate and demonstrate through their actions that they can persevere
Keep ReadingMaster doc-makers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on their new film Unlocking the Cage and other career highs like The War Room and Don’t Look Back.
Keep ReadingUnlocking the Cage by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus follows attorney Steve Wise as he builds a case for personhood for chimpanzees
Keep ReadingAt 86, veteran filmmaker Richard Leacock comes to Canada for Hot Docs’ Outstanding Achievement retrospective.
Keep ReadingThis is yet another coffee table book foray into the minds of some key documentary-makers like D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and Ken Burns, and several more not represented by separate chapters, such
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