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Category: hot docs

Posts, podcasts, and ponderings from North America’s largest documentary film festival. While many of these films rank amongst the best I see in their given year, they are not rated in the writing that follows.

festivals, hot docs, reactions

BRIMSTONE & GLORY plays Hot Docs 2017

When there’s nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

Posted on May 7, 2017June 5, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

DO DONKEYS ACT? plays Hot Docs 2017

Zen and the art of donkey protection

Posted on May 6, 2017June 5, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

REBELS ON POINTE plays Hot Docs 2017

This is a man’s world…

Posted on May 5, 2017June 5, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

BECOMING BOND plays Hot Docs 2017

Lazeby…George Lazenby.

Posted on May 4, 2017May 28, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

LIVING THE GAME plays Hot Docs 2017

Do you play to live, or live to play?

Posted on May 3, 2017June 5, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

78/52 plays Hot Docs 2017

It can’t hurt you…it’s only a movie. A 57 year old movie…about a vicious crime

Posted on May 2, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE FORCE plays Hot Docs 2017

What will it take for America to restore order within the law?

Posted on May 1, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

WHITE WALLS SAY NOTHING plays Hot Docs 2017

Some see a concrete wall; A select few see a statement waiting to be made.

Posted on April 30, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

FLAMES plays Hot Docs 2017

Look through the smoke and flames of what so many of us have burned

Posted on April 30, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

PACMEN plays Hot Docs 2017

A documentary to answer the eternal question: Who the hell finds these candidates?

Posted on April 29, 2017May 2, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

RAMEN HEADS plays Hot Docs 2017

From the first simmer to the final slurp, passion inspires passion.

Posted on April 28, 2017May 2, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

GILBERT plays Hot Docs 2017

As Hot Docs 2017 Begins, It’s Time to Pay Some Attention to The Man Behind The Curtain.

Posted on April 27, 2017May 1, 2017

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