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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

SLEEPLESS IN NEW YORK plays Hot Docs 2014

A beautiful documentary about a feeling everybody has felt, and likely will feel again before it’s all said and done.

Posted on April 27, 2014April 29, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

SELF(LESS) PORTRAIT plays Hot Docs 2014

It’s not just what people share about their lives, but how they share it.

Posted on April 26, 2014April 29, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY plays Hot Docs 2014

Just how much good food do we leave untouched? The answer would surprise you.

Posted on April 26, 2014April 28, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

ABSENCES plays Hot Docs 2014

There is no dark without light, no love without hate, and no life without loss.

Posted on April 25, 2014April 28, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

DIVIDE IN CONCORD plays Hot Docs 2014

Never stop fighting for what you believe it right, Jean Hill shows us in DIVIDE AND CONCORD that perseverance pays off

Posted on April 25, 2014April 27, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

HAPPINESS plays Hot Docs 2014

There are still places in this world that don’t always value the almighty dollar above all things.

Posted on April 24, 2014April 27, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

112 WEDDINGS plays Hot Docs 2014

We dive into Hot Docs 2014 and realize that as common as it is, marriage remains among the most mysterious of human experiences

Posted on April 24, 2014April 27, 2014
festivals, hot docs

It’s Only Life: Previewing Hot Docs 2014

Cinema can make for an amazing escape from the outside world. It can also become a wonderful window into the outside world.

Posted on April 17, 2014April 23, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

CAUCUS plays Hot Docs 2013

Look past the fancy busses…listen past the snappy soundbites. What you’ll see is simply seven people who want to lead.

Posted on May 5, 2013May 10, 2013
festivals, hot docs, reactions

MUSCLE SHOALS plays Hot Docs 2013

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers

And they’ve been known to pick a song or two

Lord they get me off so much

They pick me up when I’m feeling blue

Posted on May 5, 2013May 9, 2013
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE UNBELIEVERS plays Hot Docs 2013

When a film comes along that treats scientists like rock stars, we probably shouldn’t be surprised when they start acting belligerent.

Posted on May 4, 2013May 8, 2013
festivals, hot docs, reactions

PUSSY RIOT – A PUNK PRAYER plays Hot Docs 2013

Brimming with immediacy, this film gives audiences a peek under the balaclava at the new face of Russian revolution.

Posted on May 3, 2013May 7, 2013

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