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Author: Kate Bradford

festivals, hot docs, reactions

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD plays Hot Docs 2015

One change that affects an entire family.

Posted on May 3, 2015May 11, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

DREAMCATCHER plays Hot Docs 2015

The capacity for love that one woman has, and many lives that love affects.

Posted on May 1, 2015May 4, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

ABOVE AND BELOW plays Hot Docs 2015

No matter what adversity we face, humans seem incapable of giving up

Posted on April 29, 2015May 1, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE WOLFPACK plays Hot Docs 2015

What if film was our only window into the world? For the Angulo Brothers, that has been their reality their entire lives.

Posted on April 26, 2015April 28, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE CIRCUS DYNASTY plays Hot Docs 2015

A Shakespearian drama plays out behind the scenes of one of the circus dynasties in Europe.

Posted on April 25, 2015April 26, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

BLOOD SISTERS plays Hot Docs 2015

A beautifully restrained portrait of a truly unbreakable bond,

Posted on April 24, 2015April 26, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

OUT OF MIND, OUT OF SIGHT plays Hot Docs 2014

The winner of Best Canadian Feature Documentary from Director John Kastner, this film challenges our views on the mentally ill violent offenders of Brockville Psych, and paints a triumphant portrait of forgiveness, healing, and overwhelming empathy.

Posted on May 3, 2014May 9, 2014
festivals, hot docs

“Are You Scared?” – Kate Bradford Interviews Barbara Kopple

She was threatened, nearly run over, and even shot at as she captured the efforts of Appalachian miners to get a union contract. The result is one of the best documentaries ever made.

Posted on May 1, 2014May 7, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

GUIDELINES plays Hot Docs 2014

GUIDELINES, from director Jean-Francois Caissy, employs a unique cinéma vérité style to observe the students at a rural Quebec high school in a variety of “interventions” with authority figures.

Posted on April 30, 2014May 3, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

MEET THE PATELS plays Hot Docs 2014

“You know that girl in Eat, Pray, Love? She goes through a break up, goes on the existential journey to India to get over depression, find out what she really wanted in life? I was that girl. Except, my family was with me the entire time.”

Posted on April 29, 2014May 1, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

DOC OF THE DEAD plays Hot Docs 2014

Whether it’s our darkest fears of death and gore, or the growing unrest in the world, or merely a dreading of the loss of those we love, zombies are tuned into humanity at it’s core.

Posted on April 28, 2014May 1, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

ABSENCES plays Hot Docs 2014

There is no dark without light, no love without hate, and no life without loss.

Posted on April 25, 2014April 28, 2014

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