documentary film

ADHD: NOT JUST FOR KIDS Broadcast Premiere March 16th

ADHD: NOT JUST FOR KIDS Broadcast Premiere March 16th

World Broadcast Premiere on CBC’s The Nature of Things Thursday, March 16, 2017 – 8PM (8:30PM NT) “I’ve found that no matter what side of the scientific debate people are on, everyone agrees ADHD is undergoing a massive re-think. It became my personal mission to take our audience to the frontlines – from neuro-behaviourists, researchers […]

A FOLLOW UP TO AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH To World Premiere @ Sundance 2017

A FOLLOW UP TO AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH To World Premiere @ Sundance 2017

HOLLYWOOD, CA – Paramount Pictures announced today it will release the follow-up to AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, former Vice President Al Gore’s two-time Academy Award-winning landmark documentary about the world’s climate crisis. From Participant Media, and directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the sequel follows Gore as he continues his decades long fight to build […]

Special Screenings of Netflix’s TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR GURU w/ Joe Berlinger

“Spellbinding.” – Steve Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times “Compelling. Tony Robbins is the dictionary definition of charisma.” – Joe O’Connell, Austin Chronicle “Moving and remarkable, entertaining and enlightening.” – Jason Gorber, POV Magazine Each year, over 2,500 people converge on Boca Raton, Florida, to spend six days with the life and business strategist Tony Robbins for […]

THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DeMILLE

THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DeMILLE

http://filmbutton.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Official-Trailer-for-The-Lost-City-of-Cecil-B.-DeMille-.mp4 full screen icon at far right of video In 1982 Peter Brosnan heard a story about an ancient Egyptian city buried in the California desert. For thirty years he’s been fighting to dig it up. The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille is about the recovered set pieces from film The Ten Commandments. For […]

The LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS Opens @ The Globe in Calgary June 24th

Burlesque stars shine again en route to Las Vegas’ Burlesque Hall of Fame In award-winning Rama Rau’s touching, funny and evocative Back when the G-string was the point-of-no-return, live sexual entertainment was a formalized affair, with choreography, costumes and women with larger-than-life personalities and attributes. They were burlesque queens, with stage-names that could be out […]

THE WITNESS Opens @ Bloor Hot Docs Cinema June 17th

“Brilliant” – The New Yorker “Suspenseful and surprising” – Los Angeles Times “Deeply moving” – The Hollywood Reporter TORONTO, ON – Millions think they know the story of Kitty Genovese – a woman who was raped and murdered on March 27, 1964 in the New York borough of Queens, with a purported “38 eyewitnesses” doing […]

Princess Shaw @ the Montclair Film Festival

Screening – Friday, May 6th @ 8pm Last weekend, LIFE, ANIMATED, JOE’S VIOLIN, and LOVE ACTUALLY captivated audiences at the Wellmont Theater by bringing the magic of the movies and the power of a shared, live experience together. This Friday, the magic continues with PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW, a Cinderella story for the internet age. With […]

Hot Docs 16 – DE PALMA

Screenings – Monday, May 2nd @ 6:15pm Tuesday, May 3rd @ 10am, Friday, May 6th @ 9:30pm One of the most talented, influential and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma started his career in the 1960s. It has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The […]

2016 Hot Docs Programmers Picks

With films from a Festival-high of 51 countries, this year’s Hot Docs truly does span the globe, bringing Toronto audiences the best in documentaries from at home and abroad,” says Hot Docs director of programming Shane Smith. With the expansion of our adventurous new program DocX into its own venue, an enhanced focus on short […]