John Zaritsky

Producer Anne Pick Wins 2015 Don Haig Award from Hot Docs

Producer Anne Pick Wins 2015 Don Haig Award from Hot Docs

TORONTO – Hot Docs is pleased to announce that Toronto-based producer Anne Pick has been named this year’s recipient of the Don Haig Award. The Award, now in its tenth year, is presented by the Hot Docs Board of Directors to an outstanding Canadian independent producer with a feature-length film in competition at the Festival, […]

Hot Docs 15 – A DIFFERENT DRUMMER: CELEBRATING ECCENTRICS

First Festival Screening – Sunday, April 26 @ 8:45pm “There have always been eccentrics among us; it’s finally time to illuminate and celebrate them. Perhaps, in doing so, we’ll shed some light on our own neglected passions and potential.” – John Zaritsky Synopsis: An eclectic globe-trotting adventure, A Different Drummer: Celebrating Eccentrics, introduces us to […]

Leave them Laughing

<em>Leave them Laughing</em>

by Michael Murray for FILMbutton.com “Leave Them Laughing. It’s a documentary about a stand-up comic who’s dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease.” I think I sighed. “But it’s supposed to be absolutely hilarious!” he quickly added. This, I knew, was a movie I absolutely did not want to see. Like a lot of people, I’ve had […]