On a cold day in December 2016 in Toronto, I headed into the apartment of Mandi Gray, carrying a used camera from Craigslist, a tripod, a borrowed lavalier microphone and a Zoom
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Maya Gallus's The Heat asks why women so rarely enjoy prominent roles as chefs when they are traditionally masters of kitchens in the domestic sphere.
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Hot Docs’ worthy recipient of the 2018 Don Haig Award, Ina Fichman, discusses her new films Laila at the Bridge and The Oslo Diaries and a prolific career in documentary.
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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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