Friday, May 4th – 9pm @ The Revue Cinema The images and content on social media are censored based on more relative decisions than one may think. Who is behind what is considered “inappropriate”? Silicon Valley outsources hundreds of anonymous “digital janitors” in Manila who screen tens of thousands of posts while using their often […]
Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple with Executive Director Brett Hendrie at the 2018 Hot Docs press conference to briefly discuss her work and thank hot docs for awarding her the 2018 Outstanding Acheivement Award on March 20, 2018 at the Ted Rogers Hot Docs Theatre.
“If you considered yourself a real rock ’n’ roll guitar player, you had to learn ‘Rumble,’” Robbie Robertson, the songwriter and guitarist, said in an interview. “It was raw and dirty, and had that rebellious spirit to it.” The single is at the heart of “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” a documentary directed […]
The interview w/ Alexandre Philippe the director of 78/52 about the shower scene from Psycho took place on May 6th, 2017 during the Hot Docs Documentary Festival in Toronto conducted by Shael Stolberg for FILMbutton. – Original Posted in May, 2017
by jason smith for FILMbutton Upon a dark visage of emerald foliage it opens, pulling you into its depths; and like the light hiding behind the tree tops, a beauty exits beyond the forest – but only for those who take the time to seek it. Through one man’s unique vision, Integral Man offers such […]
Screening Times & Locations: June 10 2017 @ 7:00 PM Toronto – TIFF Bell Lightbox PLOT: Noelle Elia is a multi-media artist who takes us on a voyage of discovery. She tells the story of Franco Grosso and Mariano Elia, two immigrants who left southern Italy for a new life in Canada. Franco stayed close […]
From award-winning Canadian filmmaker Jamie Kastner comes THE SKYJACKER’S TALE, which gives unprecedented access to one of the top five most wanted US fugitives in Cuba. Ishmael Muslim Ali (formerly LaBeet) is the American convicted of murdering eight people on a Rockefeller-owned golf course in the US Virgin Islands. After years of trying to get […]
The groundbreaking concert film that helped introduce Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding to the world! Opens in New York on June 14, in Los Angeles on June 15, and across the country on the weekend of June 16, alongside a new celebration of the festival in Monterey! “One of the truly invaluable artifacts […]
RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD WINS 50K ROGERS AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY AND TOPS THE RANKINGS TO NAB THE HOT DOCS AUDIENCE AWARD TORONT0 – Hot Docs has wrapped its 24th edition with record-breaking audience numbers reaching an estimated 215,000. The 11-day event featured 461 public screenings of 228 films on […]
Director Alexandre O. Philippe & Producer Kerry Deignan Roy after the screening of the documentary 78/52 about the shower scene in Hitchcock’s PSYCHO at it’s International Premiere on May 4, 2017 during Hot Docs. – Originally Posted May 5, 2017
