Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (USA, 94 min.) Dir. Midge Costin Since its inception, film has primarily been celebrated as a visual medium. The power of the moving image set
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Keep ReadingShella Record: A Reggae Mystery (Canada, 87 minutes) Dir. Chris Flanagan Programme: Canadian Spectrum (World Premiere) As a Ja-Canadian, a catchphrase among some Jamaicans for people who bounce back and forth between
Keep ReadingSymphony of the Ursus Factory (Poland, 61 min.) Dir. Jaśmina Wójcik Programme: Artscapes (North American Premiere) If there’s a prize for strangest film at Hot Docs, please bestow the golden laurels upon Symphony
Keep ReadingWho Let The Dogs Out (Canada, 60min.) Dir. Brent Hodge Programme: Nightvision (Canadian Premiere) On first blush Brent Hodge’s Who Let The Dogs Out is a silly film about a silly song, tracing with
Keep ReadingChris Flanagan’s Shella Record – A Reggae Mystery is an ode to obsession, tracing one man’s desire to uncover the identity of a mystery singer he first heard on a thrift-store audio
Keep Reading"There’s greater gender parity in documentary than in fiction and the approach to directing in non-fiction is to relinquish control. There’s a kind of humility or surrender. It’s not about the filmmaker;
Keep Reading"At the end of the day being marked for your art isn’t important, it’s the whole process of making their art that’s important," says Pipe Dreams director Stacey Tenenbaum ahead of her
Keep ReadingThe Sound of Masks (South Africa/Portugal, 70 min.) Dir. Sara CF de Gouvei Programme: Artscapes (North American Premiere) The Sound of Masks is a wicked cool arts doc about the power of dance.
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