Directed by Judith Helfand, Love and Stuff is chock-full of substance, and despite the numerous topics that it covers, everything is perfectly intertwined. Love and Stuff comes down to one word – motherhood. Complex and emotional, Helfand’s film looks at what it means to have a mother, become a mother, and have those realities stripped of… [Read More]
Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl – Fearless Authenticity
While the title may suggest otherwise, never underestimate the girl. At 18, Kate Nash burst onto the alt-pop music scene from relative obscurity. Quickly earning a platinum album and dominating the music charts, Nash became the voice of a generation. However, years later, after a traumatic encounter with her manager, Nash finds herself struggling to… [Read More]
The Painter and the Thief: Painting a New Picture
In the new documentary, The Painter and the Thief, director Benjamin Lee introduces the world Barbora Kysilkova, a Czech painter who is devasated when two of her masterpieces are stolen from the Galleri Nobel, an art exhibit in Norway. Eventually, she is able to contact one of the thieves responsible in Karl-Bertil Nordland, a man with a… [Read More]
Islam and the Future of Tolerance
An atheist and a former Islamist extremist walk in to a bar… Joking aside. Sam Harris is a known atheist and the author of The End of Faith, among many others. The End of Faith was Sam’s immediate reaction to the events of 9/11, and includes numerous references to Islam. To roughly quote Sam, he… [Read More]
David Peck: Bronwen Hughes (THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION)
Bronwen Hughes and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film The Journey is The Destination, Dan Eldon, the “global tribe”, living a life of “crowded hours”, and having no sense of the other. IMDB More about Dan Eldon here. More about Creative Visions here. Synopsis The Journey is the Destination is based on… [Read More]
David Peck: Vaishali Sinha (ASK THE SEXPERT)
Vaishali Sinha and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Ask The Sexpert, cultural context, “women as allies”, a Doctor as a 90-year-old pioneer and the latent effects of colonialism. IMDB Synopsis ASK THE SEXPERT is a feature length documentary about a highly popular 93-year-old sex advice columnist for a daily newspaper in… [Read More]
David Peck: Egil Larsen (69 MINUTES OF 86 DAYS)
Egil Larsen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film 69 Minutes of 86 Days, The Refugee crisis, making sense of time, polarization of real issues, childlike wonder and why he still has hope. Hot Docs Review – calls it “Essential viewing.” Find out more about the film here. Synopsis Every day, about… [Read More]
HotDocs ’17: Babe, I Hate To Go
Produced by Sherien Barsoum and directed by Andrew Moir, Babe, I Hate To Go tells the story of Delroy Dunkley, a migrant worker who has spent half his life working in the Ontario tobacco belt to support his family in Jamaica. Goodbyes have become ritual but Delroy harbours a secret—he has cancer. Though his health… [Read More]
HotDocs ’17: Becoming Bond
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill Opening with the above Churchill quote the documentary Becoming Bond may be the strangest example of story-telling in recent memory. Directed by Josh Greenbaum, Becoming Bond tells the story of one-and-done Bond actor George Lazenby—or rather, allows Lazenby to tell… [Read More]
HotDocs ’17 – Bee Nation
As Chief Kahkewistahaw Community School principal Evan Taypotat says, “Never judge a person ’til you’ve walked a mile in their moccasins.” Opening the festival this year, Bee Nation focuses on the lives of several First Nations children, including Grade 3 student William Kaysaywaysemat III as they compete in the first province-wide First Nations Spelling Bee…. [Read More]
