<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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A Mother, Youngsoon – HotDocs 23′

A Mother, Youngsoon – HotDocs 23′

May 3, 2023

A Mother, Youngsoon follows a mother and son, a decade after they have escaped North Korea and immigrated to South Korea. They are merely one of around 30,000 families who have left the North to come to the South but life for the mother and son is not much...

HotDocs ’23: Black Barbie: A Documentary

HotDocs ’23: Black Barbie: A Documentary

May 3, 2023

Black Barbie: A Documentary takes a look at the history of representation behind the Barbie brand and those figures who have (and are still fighting for) representation for the many different and diverse women in America. The film's origins stemmed from the director's...

HotDocs ’23: You were My First Boyfriend

HotDocs ’23: You were My First Boyfriend

May 3, 2023

As she was getting older, director Cecilia Aldarondo decided to turn her lens towards her past, complete with all its personal mishaps and traumas. She does this, not only by confronting her own memories and the remnants that can be visualized through home video, but...

HotDocs ’23: After Work

HotDocs ’23: After Work

May 3, 2023

What would you do if you had universal income? In the rise of AI and automated machinery, many jobs are likely to be eradicated from the market, leaving the question of what will happen to the workers? Many astute philosophers and intelligible business men seem to...

HotDocs ’23: Praying for Armageddon

HotDocs ’23: Praying for Armageddon

May 2, 2023

Praying for Armageddon explores how the influence of the radical, Evangelical Right Christian movement is changing America and, by association, the entire world. The film has three distinct areas that it explores, each using different styles of cinematography to...

HotDocs ’23: Stephen Curry – Underrated

HotDocs ’23: Stephen Curry – Underrated

May 2, 2023

This was almost a very different documentary. Luckily, Stephen Curry is pretty good at Basketball. As audacious a title as Underrated may be for a film about a three-time NBA champion and a player who changed how the modern NBA plays, Curry's journey exhibits how he...

The Mountains – HotDocs 2023

The Mountains – HotDocs 2023

Apr 27, 2023

In The Mountains, director Christian Einshoj uses video to reflect on their family's past in a narrative documentary. In doing so, Einshoj's family provides a window into a personal story that many would refuse to tell. Beginning with the tragic death...

TIFF 2023 Predictions – The Most Anticipated

TIFF 2023 Predictions – The Most Anticipated

Apr 22, 2023

Lots of people in the Film World have been doing Cannes Predictions for this year's festival and it got me thinking: Why do predictions for a measly 20 or so films in Cannes competitions when you can predict the 200 or so films that will be at TIFF? That's impossible,...