As a whimsical score echoes from the soundtrack, HIS & HERS begins with a shot of a newborn infant girl. As it happens, she’s the only woman out of the seventy we meet in the next eighty minutes who doesn’t say a word. Pity – I imagine she has a lot on her mind. The…
Running On Faith: DAVID WANTS TO FLY Plays Hot Docs
Imagine meeting your idol. Imagine that the meeting isn’t just a moment to express admiration, get a photo, or snag an autograph. Imagine instead that they reach out a hand of encouragement. In a practically unsolicited show of support, your idol offers to mentor you in a way that can make you more creative and…
Hot Docs Reaction: LISTEN TO THIS
In Toronto’s inner city, Thompson Egbo-Egbo has started an Arts Foundation that looks to instil a positive change and a sense of self worth into elementary school students. Much of this is done by getting the students to express themselves through music. We get a sometimes sad, but ultimately moving look at their work through…
Midnight Radio: Life in Technicolor part iii
Another day, another director in conversation… This time out, it was a chance to speak with director Nick Sherman the morning his wonderful film SOUNDTRACKER premiered. As an unexpected treat, Sherman was good enough to invite the film’s subject- Gordon Hempton -along for the ride. Thus a very memorable discussion was there for the recording!…
Hot Docs Reaction: GASLAND
Remember that part of ERIN BROCKOVICH where an entire county was getting sick because an energy company was contaminating the drinking water. Kinda scary concept isn’t it? Well prepare to be scared, because as Josh Fox’s documentary GASLAND points out, an awful lot of America is dealing with water and air contamination. Right off the…
Midnight Radio: Life in Technicolor part ii
Pardon the interruption in service, but while mypodcast.com figures itself out, I’ve decided to move this series to podomatic for the time being. Part two of this series allows me to have my first face-to-face conversation with a film director. After watching Ken Wardrop’s stunning documentary HIS & HERS, Wardrop was nice enough to sit…
Hot Docs Reaction: THE "SOCALLED" MOVIE
There are a handful of artists out there who colour with every crayon in the box. Then there’s Socalled. There aren’t enough colours in the box for what he wants to colour. Especially since he wants to colour the world using music, magic, art, and film. Every single idea in his head is truly original,…