from vkpr Hot Docs is pleased to announce that February’s Doc Soup will present the Canadian premiere of IF YOU BUILD IT (D: Patrick Creadon, USA, 85 min.) An official selection of the 2013 Full Frame Documentary Festival, IF YOU BUILD IT will screen on Wednesday, February 5, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., and […]
from vkpr Hot Docs is pleased to announce that the 2012-13 season of the monthly screening series Doc Soup will close with the international premiere of LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM (D: Sean Fine; Andrea Nix Fine, USA; 90 min). LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM will screen Wednesday, April 3, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., and […]
Hot Docs is expanding to a second cinema. One of the largest documentary festivals in the world, Hot Docs re-opened the 727-seat Bloor Cinema last year and will be adding a second screen in the same building, an old vaudeville theatre. Hot Docs will renovate the five-storey “fly tower” located behind its main screen into […]
by michael murray for FILMbutton Beauty is Embarrassing, the first time effort of writer and director Neil Berkeley, is a documentary about visual artist Wayne White. White, who hails from Tennessee, has beautiful and gentle eyes. He’s charming, articulate and alert, and in him you can see a George Clooney fighting to get out. He’s […]
This Q&A for the film ‘Beauty is Embarrassing’ took place during the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival 2012.
from GAT Who said there’s no second acts in American life? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Fuck you F. Scott Fitzgerald. – Wayne White Making themselves very known, loud and clear, the wonderful, the creative, the inspiring, the irreverent documentary, Beauty is Embarrassing, screened at every important film festival across North America, including our very own Hot […]
Sweet Crude director Sandy Cioffi discusses how the direction of her film came about as well as other comments during her Q&A after the screening of her film at Bloor Hot Docs Theatre June 12, 2012.
from bloor hot docs cinema WINNER—First Appearance Award, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, 2011 WINNER—Joris Ivens Award, Cinéma du réel, Paris, 2012 A film about a family’s love and loss, obligation and attachment, guilt, transformation and destiny, set against a backdrop of a rapidly changing China. For more info on The Vanishing Spring Light click here. […]
from vk & associates BELOVED TORONTO LANDMARK SET TO REOPEN THIS FALL Blue Ice Film and Hot Docs are delighted to announce that they have entered into a partnership to operate the recently acquired Bloor Cinema, the landmark, century-old film house located in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. Currently undergoing renovation, the Bloor Cinema will reopen this […]
