HOT DOCS PARTNERS WITH BROOKLYN’S ROOFTOP FILMS FOR ROOFTOP DOCS OUTDOOR SCREENINGS DURING 2010 FESTIVAL Hot Docs, in partnership with Brooklyn’s Rooftop Films, will celebrate springtime in Toronto by presenting three special open-air screenings in its new Rooftop Docs series during this year’s Festival, taking place April 29 to May 9. Hot Docs and Rooftop […]
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 […]
“Part confessional, part broken love story, Love at the Twilight Motel weaves together seven remarkably intimate interviews to penetrate the darker side of desire. Sex, infidelity and the allure of the fast lane propel these stories. The filmmaker, Alison Rose, stayed in a number of motels on and off over the course of three years […]
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 […]
by Allan Tong for Festival Products A different children’s movie is the chilling In A Soldier’s Footsteps, about child soldiers in Uganda. Danish director Mette Zeruneith was prepping a doc on Ugandan Steven Ndugga, who was 13 when he was conscripted into a paramilitary group, when his film took a sudden turn. Steven receives word […]
by Allan Tong for Festival Products This year the largest documentary fest in North America turned the spotlight across the Pacific with the Made in Japan program, featuring the powerful ABDUCTION: The Megumi Yokota Story. Directed by ex-Canadians, now living in Washington, Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim, ABUDCTION is a mesmerizing tale about a 13-year-old […]
by Shael Stolberg for Festival Products The award winning Mystic Ball is an engaging portrait of one man’s passion; chinlone. Canadian first-time filmmaker Greg Hamilton takes as on his journey to understand this sport played in Myanmar and said to be at least 1,500 years old. A former martial arts expert, Hamilton falls in love […]
by Shael Stolberg for Festival Products Yonghi Yang tells the story of her father’s belief, mother’s commitment, a community’s strength and her path to understanding. Dear Pyongyang is a very personal doc, which is engaging at one moment, historical at another and at times; heart wrenching. It starts by Yonghi introducing us to her parents. […]
