NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY (1948) [The 2009 Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] screening at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival by Tobi Gordon for FILMbutton The documentary film has come a long way since its early days as either an instructional tool or tool of propaganda. The ponderous male voice intoning over scratchy black and white images has […]
BHUTTO is directed by Duane Baughman and Johnny O’Hara and produced by Duane Baughman, Mark Siegel, and Arleen Sorkin. The film casts an unblinking lens on the first woman ever elected to lead a Muslim state and uncovers the back story of the world’s most strategically important country – Pakistan – the Muslim world’s sole […]
Dish – Women, Waitressing & the Art of Service is director Maya Gallus’s most recent film. Her previous film Girl Inside won a Gemini Award for Best Direction In A Documentary and played festivals worldwide, including Hot Docs. Her feature Doc Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality, was nominated for Best Arts Documentary at Hot […]
Thomas Balmès
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage will have its Canadian Premiere on the Opening Night of Hot Docs at 9:30pm. Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen craft a documentary that covers the bands 40 years with great archival footage, testimonials as well as as interviews with Geddy, Alex and Neil themselves! If you miss it on Opening […]
The Hot Docs Documentary Festival will be taking place from April 29th – May 7th of 2010. The festival will screen 166 documentaries within 10 programs from 41 different countries around the world. Their will be 20 world premieres, 30 international premieres, 26 North American premieres, 48 Canadian premieres and 16 Toronto premieres, repectively. Of […]
