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Author: Ryan McNeil

festivals, hot docs, reactions

HIP HOP EVOLUTION plays Hot Docs 2016

Cuz it can’t, it won’t, and it don’t stop.

Posted on May 7, 2016May 19, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

OVARIAN PSYCOS plays Hot Docs 2016

Once a psycho, always a psycho.

Posted on May 6, 2016May 14, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN plays Hot Docs 2016

He’s like the Easter Bunny…but, y’know…scary.

Posted on May 5, 2016May 14, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

CONTEMPORARY COLOR plays Hot Docs 2016

Sit right down and wait for the gift of sound and vision.

Posted on May 4, 2016May 14, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

OBIT plays Hot Docs 2016

Electric word “life”, it means ‘forever’ and that’s a mighty long time…

Posted on May 3, 2016May 8, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

NUTS! plays Hot Docs 2016

A strange moment in American history when radio, medicine, politics, and goats all intersected.

Posted on May 2, 2016May 6, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

FEAR ITSELF plays Hot Docs 2016

There is nothing to fear but fear itself…and the dark…and the silence…and isolation…and crowds…and…

Posted on May 2, 2016May 6, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

WEINER plays Hot Docs 2016

If you’ve already been publicly disgraced once, what’s the chances you’ll get disgraced again?

Posted on May 1, 2016May 6, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

CAMERAPERSON plays Hot Docs 2016

From many images comes a singular emotional piece.

Posted on May 1, 2016May 3, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

STRIKE A POSE plays Hot Docs 2016

Twenty five years after stuggling to express themselves, six men have lived to tell.

Posted on April 30, 2016May 3, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD plays Hot Docs 2016

Our Hot Docs 2016 coverage begins with Werner Herzog, and a question of whether androids dream of electric sheep.

Posted on April 29, 2016May 2, 2016
blind spot series

Blindsided by THE HITCH-HIKER

With the gun comes the fear; both for the target and for the shooter.

Posted on April 26, 2016May 1, 2016

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