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DOXA Documentary Festival runs April 30 to May 10

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Hot Docs Virtual Festival and the Weight of Industry

by Pat Mullen
May 12, 2021February 9, 2022
Hot Docs/Industry

If one factor marked the Hot Docs 2021 more than any previous live or online iteration, it was the weight of industry. On one hand, the festival’s decision to release all 220

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What’s Hot at Hot Docs

by Pat Mullen
April 27, 2021August 9, 2021
Festivals/Hot Docs

This year’s edition of Hot Docs is again virtual, but it looks like the characteristically robust line-up the festival usually offers. With 220 documentaries, the scale of this year’s event isn’t far

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The Strangest TIFF Ever

by Marc Glassman
September 11, 2020August 21, 2021
Festivals/TIFF

Thanks to the relative scarcity of films at TIFF 2020, it will be possible for online viewers, in particular, to see more than 50 percent of the documentaries curated for the festival.

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Hot Docs 2020 Industry – Virtually

by Maurie Alioff
June 19, 2020August 21, 2021
Hot Docs/Industry

In 2020, in the midst of one the worst health crises ever to assault the modern world, Hot Docs was one of the first film festivals to come through with a full

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At DOXA 2020, the World Is Just a Streaming Link Away

by Pat Mullen
June 17, 2020August 23, 2021
Festivals

The 2020 edition of Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Festival follows on the heels of Toronto’s Hot Docs by shifting its annual gathering into a streaming event.

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Hot Docs: Successful at a Distance

by Marc Glassman
May 29, 2020August 23, 2021
Festivals/Hot Docs

What is there to see at the revamped Hot Docs? To put it simply, a lot of major documentary films, which you can relish on your own or perhaps with a life

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