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Category: festivals

Coverage of TIFF, Hot Docs, NXNE, and Toronto After Dark

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

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

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
festivals, hot docs

Another Version of the Truth: Hot Docs 2015 Line-Up Unveiled

Like a robin hopping across the grass, the Hot Docs announcement is a surefire sign that spring has sprung.

Posted on March 17, 2015March 22, 2015
festivals, reactions, TIFF

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS plays TIFF 2014

Being undead is about more than just capes and coffins.

Posted on September 15, 2014September 20, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

HAEMOO plays TIFF 2014

We don’t all have it in us to be morally compromised.

Posted on September 15, 2014September 19, 2014
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2014 pt. iv

Talkin’ WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS with Lindsay as TIFF 2014 coverage concludes.

Posted on September 14, 2014September 18, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

THE EDITOR plays TIFF 2014

In the words of Spinal Tap: “There’s a fine line between clever and stupid”

Posted on September 14, 2014September 18, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE plays TIFF 2014

So.
Very.
Swedish.

Now let me explain…

Posted on September 14, 2014September 20, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

TOP FIVE plays TIFF 2014

Chris Rock has been responsible for some of the most cutting and edgy comedy of this century. At TIFF, he takes his game to a whole other level.

Posted on September 14, 2014September 15, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

THE COBBLER plays TIFF 2014

Once upon a time, there was a boy from New York named Adam, who occasionally had thoughts of making good movies.

Posted on September 13, 2014September 15, 2014

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