If you have seen Wes Craven’s THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, you may also remember the controversial and polarizing reactions that movie had at the time. Craven’s movie appealed to a certain audience of adrenaline junkies, thrill seekers and edgy teenagers that craved nothing more than to disobey their heavily religious parents. This contentious […]
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HotDocs 2018 Interview – EXIT MUSIC director Cameron Mullenneaux
“EXIT MUSIC is a visceral, emotional, and unexpected story about death and dying and how a family struggles to face mortality. I follow the last year in the life of a young artist as he grapples with end of life decisions and focus on his relationship with his father, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD who […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview – WOMEN OF THE VENEZUELAN CHAOS director Margarita Cadenas
“My movie is about five women from Venezuela, from different backgrounds and generations. They draw a portrait of a chaotic society and allow us to take the pulse of a population in distress. It represents a sort of barometer of the worsening critical situation in this Latin American nation.” Director Margarita Cadenas on WOMEN OF […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview: WARRIOR WOMEN directors Christina D. King & Elizabeth Castle
“WARRIOR WOMEN is the story of American Indian Movement leader, Madonna Thunder Hawk, who cultivated a rag-tag gang of activist children, including her daughter Marcy, into the “We Will Remember” Survival Group as a Native alternative to government-run boarding schools. Their deep involvement with The Movement fight for Native rights made them more comrades than […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview – THE ARTIST & THE PERVERT director René Gebhardt
“Art. Love. Radical self-determination. Nazis. BDSM. Consent. THE ARTIST & THE PERVERT is a documentary about a very special couple; Georg Friedrich Haas is a world-renowned composer and his wife Mollena is a sex educator, storyteller and activist. Together, they live in a 24/7 BDSM relationship with him being the master and her being the […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview: LAILA AT THE BRIDGE director Elizabeth Mirzaei
“LAILA AT THE BRIDGE is a film about an Afghan woman who tries to offer second chances to the outcast heroin addicts living under an infamous bridge in Kabul. Laila’s own brother was a heroin addict for over 25 years, inspiring her to undertake this Sisyphean task to provide free treatment to thousands of men […]
Hot Docs 2018 Interview — MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END director Pablo Bryant
“MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END is an in-depth look at the artist Mr. Fish, who is a brilliant, outrageous political cartoonist with a biting sense of satire whose work is dangerous in the best sense. He is a not ready for prime time artist, and the film is both a very personal documentary […]
Hot Docs 2018 Interview: TRANSFORMER director Michael Del Monte
“The film follows former U.S. Marine, bodybuilder and strongest man in the world, Matt Kroc, as he attempts his greatest test of strength: becoming a woman.” Director Michael Del Monte on TRANSFORMER which screens at #HotDocs25. Great to have you here at HotDocs! Tell me more about your process of getting this documentary project together! […]
Happy National Canadian Film Day!
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 marks the fifth annual National Canadian Film Day, an annual celebration of Canadian cinema in our own very, very, very big backyard. Through my annual film festival pilgrimage to Toronto, Vancouver and Whistler Film Festivals I see a large amount of Canadian productions from all corners of the country. To celebrate […]
SXSW 2018 Review: UNLOVABLE
South By Southwest is always home to a couple of tense, upsetting and even some films that test us with its running time. However, in a festival of such films, it is nice to see a brisk 79 minute comedy featuring two lovely actors to balance everything out, like UNLOVABLE. The film follows Joy (Charlotte […]