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festivals, hot docs, reactions documentary, gates bradley, hot docs, hot docs 2017, jonny robson, visual art, white walls say nothing

WHITE WALLS SAY NOTHING plays Hot Docs 2017

April 30, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, hot docs, reactions documentary, flames, hot docs, hot docs 2017, josephine decker, zefrey throwell

FLAMES plays Hot Docs 2017

April 30, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, hot docs, reactions ben carson, documentary, hot docs, hot docs 2017, politics

PACMEN plays Hot Docs 2017

April 29, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, hot docs, reactions documentary, food, hot docs, hot docs 2017, koki shigeno, osamu tomita, ramen heads

RAMEN HEADS plays Hot Docs 2017

April 28, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, hot docs, reactions documentary, gilbert, gilbert gottfried, hot docs, hot docs 2017, neil berkeley

GILBERT plays Hot Docs 2017

April 27, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF blossom chukwujekwu, foreign film, gabriel afolayan, ken erics, nigerian, okafor's law, omoni oboli, tiff, tiff 2016

OKAFOR’S LAW plays TIFF 2016

September 18, 2016

If boys will be boys, what does it take to grow into a man?

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF claudia sainte-luce, foreign film, jimmy jean-louis, mexican, the empty box, tiff, tiff 2016

THE EMPTY BOX plays TIFF 2016

September 18, 2016

No matter how much we think we are ready for the end, we so seldom are.

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Ryan McNeil
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