When I think of the Hot Docs Film Festival and their incredible selection of documentaries, I naturally assume that they are all about extremely dark realities and shocking prejudice. Although, there are usually those few shiny stones in there, that are a lot more lighthearted but equally as impactful. My heart was a few more […]
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 Review – UBIQUITY
There’s a gigantic difference between those few hipsters and nostalgia-fiends who crave for the days where cell phones didn’t rule the youth and those who can’t get within a certain radius of any type of technology. UBIQUITY focuses on the latter, a group of people who suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, and how the unrecognized health […]
Hot Docs 2018 Review: Three Identical Strangers
It’s nice to see one of Toronto’s bigger film festivals come back to town, and it was especially great to start off the fest with the opening gala film THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS. Director Tim Wardle, fresh off his Sundance award win, has created a captivating and near unbelievable story that will definitely be talked about […]
Hot Docs 2018 Review – OVER THE LIMIT
First-time documentarian Marta Prus makes her debut with OVER THE LIMIT, a film about the dehumanization and mental degradation that some Russian athletes suffer through to become the best. With that incredibly heavy plot description, you may get the assumption that Prus bit off far more than she can chew for her first time behind […]
Hot Docs 2018 Interview – THIS MOUNTAIN LIFE director Grant Baldwin
“THIS MOUNTAIN LIFE follows 60 year-old Tania and her daughter Martina who survive a 6 month ski trek through the treacherous Coast Mountains from Vancouver to Alaska. Their adventure is the main thread of the film, but it’s also intertwined with five other stories about people with incredible passion for the BC mountains from a […]
Hot Docs 2018 Interview: THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ director Matthew Shoychet
“The film essentially focuses on the trial of a 94-year-old former Nazi named Oskar Gröning, who, seventy years after the Holocaust, was charged with being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz. His job was to collect the victims’ valuables when they arrived at the death camp. Why is this happening […]
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! […]