Hot Doc’s Canadian Spectrum is an eagerly anticipated survey of the current crop of Can-docs. Here’s the skinny.
Keep ReadingLisanne Pajot and James Swirsky's Indie Game: The Movie makes its Hot Docs debut after scoring an editing prize in Sundance's World Cinema competition.
Keep ReadingAn intimate portrait by POV international editor Wintonick of Ally Derks, IDFA (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam) founder and Executive Director and the winner of the Doc Mogul Award this year.
Keep ReadingWith four successful films in 10 years, and a recent marriage and a baby, Alan Zweig is cautiously happy, but admits it wasn’t always so.
Keep ReadingLike most niche fests, Hot Docs emerged humbly when the Documentary Organization of Canada established it in 1993 as an industry insider’s event, but it's since grown into a premiere worldwide event.
Keep ReadingTrish Dolan's Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson and David York's Wiebo's War offer radical portraits of environmental renegades.
Keep ReadingLeading doc festivals IDFA, Hot Docs and One World in Schools (OWiS) are leading the way in teaching young students how to make and understand non-fiction films.
Keep ReadingIn the documentary Steam of Life, Joonas Berghäll and his co-director Mika Hotakainen explore a peculiar male vulnerability that swarms the hot box of sixteen different saunas across Finland.
Keep ReadingCan documentaries break with tradition and become truly avant garde? Mike Hoolboom's Mark and Yuval Sagiv's How I Filmed the War prove it's possible.
Keep ReadingThere are some festivals that I have come back to year after year, with pleasure, almost with a feeling of being part of the furniture.
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