Blue Ice Docs Acquires 2 Hot Docs Titles

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TORONTO – Robin Smith of Blue Ice Docs takes Canadian rights for two much anticipated films premiering at the upcoming 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival. Deprogrammed, making its World Premiere by Canadian filmmaker, Mia Donovan gives a personal and captivating view of Ted “Black Lighting” Patrick and his controversial techniques. Around the World in 50 Concerts, Canadian Premiere, is the globe-trotting orchestra odyssey by veteran filmmaker Heddy Honigmann.

Deprogrammed chronicles Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His practice of ‘deprogramming’, also known as ‘reverse brainwashing’, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultist-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from ‘cults’.

Around the World in 50 Concerts follows the prestigious Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as they traveled the world to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2013 by performing 50 concerts on six continents. Acclaimed documentary maker Heddy Honigmann followed the orchestra from Buenos Aires to Soweto to St. Petersburg—capturing the drive and unbounded passion that has continued to draw audiences and performers together for more than a century.

– Originally Posted April 24, 2015

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