Although one may disagree, for this film fan it is a great time to be in love with STAR WARS. When the mighty empire of Disney took over this franchise a few years ago from legend George Lucas, the Mouse House had a tall order to fill with a lot of product already out […]
HotDocs 2018 Review – PRIMAS
PRIMAS begins almost exactly like your standard-narrative based coming-of-age drama. Our subject is lying down in a beach, seemingly asleep and very clearly angst-ridden as we see her in scenes to follow. This quirky feeling doesn’t last for long though as we find out said subject is one of two cousins that bond over something […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview: GURRUMUL director Paul Damian Williams
“GURRUMUL is a film about the wonderful things that can happen when people from two very different worlds struggle to truly understand one another.” Director Paul Damian Williams on GURRUMUL which screens at #HotDocs25. Great to have you here at HotDocs! Are you going to be attending your screenings? Yes, the Saturday and Sunday screenings. […]
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 – 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! […]
Hot Docs 2018 Interview: THE NIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS director Yasemin Samdereli
“I was just freshly married and already thinking anout getting a divorce. So I thought of my grandparents and asked myself. How did they manage? They were married over 50 years. Did they knew something our generation had forgotten? Or was it just the “duty” that they stayed together. The absence of an exit possibility?” […]
A Quiet Place: A Winner Across the Board
I have said it before but I will say it again. We are living in the era of horror movies and they keep coming almost on weekly basis. Surprisingly a good number of them are really good films. After GET OUT and IT broke box office records last year, A QUIET PLACE is doing the same this […]
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 […]