<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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We Grown Now: Youth under fire

We Grown Now: Youth under fire

May 10, 2024

Set in 1992 within the Cabrini Green neighbourhood of Chicago, We Grown Now looks at the lives of two young boys, Malik (Blake James Cameron) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez). Their family homes--and legacy--confronts them as their neighbourhood comes under the scare of...

HotDocs ’24: The Click Trap

HotDocs ’24: The Click Trap

May 3, 2024

For those who are not already aware, the reason that the internet is free is because the internet is not the product. You are the product. It's this awareness that The Click Trap is attempting to spread in its extensive coverage of the online marketing world and how...

HotDocs ’24: The Strike

HotDocs ’24: The Strike

May 3, 2024

A harrowing tribute to the human spirit, The Strike covers a side of the prison system that most would disagree with yet has been thriving for multiple decades. (In fact, in many cases, the system has kept the same individual in solitary confinements for that amount...

HotDocs ’24: Fly

HotDocs ’24: Fly

May 1, 2024

National Geographic is behind a film that many will call a spiritual successor to Free Solo as it features people taking on an extreme sport that can result in their death. Personally, I found the documentary to be more akin to Goodfellas, where the thrills and...

HotDocs ’24: Curl Power

HotDocs ’24: Curl Power

May 1, 2024

A TELUS original, based in the west coast, Curl Power follows the 4K girls, a high school team of Curlers whose aspirations to make the curling nationals is only matched by their efforts to figure out who they are and how to navigate life as they head towards the end...

HotDocs ’24: Daughters of Genghis

HotDocs ’24: Daughters of Genghis

May 1, 2024

Filmed over the course of seven years, Daughters of Genghis is a study of a woman named Gerel, a formidable neo-nationalist who guides a women-led movement to protect her homeland of Mongolia and the ideals that she believes are tied to the country. One of her main...

HotDocs ’24: Black Box Diaries

HotDocs ’24: Black Box Diaries

May 1, 2024

Black Box Diaries takes us back to 2015 when Shiori Ito, a young woman with great ambitions and hopes for a career in journalism, runs into a story in the worst way possible as she attempts to empower herself by exposing the sexual assault that was committed against...

HotDocs 24: My Sextortion Diary

HotDocs 24: My Sextortion Diary

Apr 30, 2024

Just google the term 'sextortion' and you will quickly see the tragedies that are associated with it. You will also see the young people who are exploited by it. Here's a story of a woman who decided to document the process of bringing herself back to power. My...

Hundreds of Beavers: Embracing style

Hundreds of Beavers: Embracing style

Apr 29, 2024

Directed by Mike Cheslik and co-written by star Ryland Tews, Hundreds of Beavers tells the story of a drunken applejack named Jean Kayak who, in his love for apple cider, accidentally destroys his business leaving him with nothing. He is forced to embrace the...