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Author: Ryan McNeil

festivals, hot docs, reactions

FRAME BY FRAME plays HOT DOCS 2015

When one looks at the world with empathy, one can capture some truly resonant images.

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

THE NIGHTMARE plays Hot Docs 2015

Did your parents ever tell you that the boogeyman wasn’t real? Guess what – they lied.

Posted on April 28, 2015May 1, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

CHUCK NORRIS VS. COMMUNISM plays HOT DOCS 2015

The adventures of Arnold, Sly, Sigourney, and Chuck…as narrated by an anonymous Romanian woman.

Posted on April 28, 2015April 30, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

FOODIES plays Hot Docs 2015

Sometimes a great dish speaks for itself. Other times, these people speak for it.

Posted on April 27, 2015April 30, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK plays Hot Docs 2015

Let’s forget about the myth for a moment and learn about the man.

Posted on April 27, 2015April 30, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

WESTERN plays Hot Docs 2015

The Ross Brothers deliver a huge documentary about two tiny towns.

Posted on April 26, 2015April 29, 2015
festivals, hot docs, reactions

LISTEN TO ME MARLON plays Hot Docs 2015

When Kowalski speaks, it’s hard not to sit up and listen closely.

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

PERVERT PARK plays Hot Docs 2015

Behind every painful story, there lays another story. But do we have the guts to listen?

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

RAIDERS! plays Hot Docs 2015

Can you ever go back to Cairo after you’ve climbed out of a nuked fridge?

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

THE QUEEN OF SILENCE plays Hot Docs 2015

A genre-bending story of beauty, isolation, and poverty that dances to its own rhythm.

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

JESUS TOWN, USA plays Hot Docs 2015

Blessed are the Buddhists, for they will make for splendid nonfiction viewing.

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

MISSING PEOPLE plays Hot Docs 2015

A portrait of one woman; Who she once was, who she thinks she is, and what she might never be again.

Posted on April 23, 2015April 25, 2015

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