We’ve all thought about what it would be like to run away and live on wide open land. What if you had to build your house first? Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller decide to build small in order to live big.
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.
We live in a time of rapid environmental change and hear a lot of voices telling us they have the answer. In a refreshing change, FALL AND WINTER is a film that doesn’t try to give us the answer, but instead helps us better understand the question from those that might have thought about it a bit longer.
An adventure to a seldom seen corner of our planet is not only a scientific voyage, but also one that inspires great art and philosophy.
The 20th Hot Docs Festival begins with a story of one family, and the way a strip club defines them.
It’s a mad world that we live in, and there are some mad filmmakers out there doing great things to capture these mad times. Bring on Hot Docs 2013!
The city that bred legends like Henry Ford, Joe Louis, and Stevie Wonder is in crisis.
Talkin’ THE WAITING ROOM with director Pete Nicks and producer Bill Hirsch as Hot Docs festival coverage concludes.
No matter how famous you become, sometimes you just can’t outrun your past.
If sex is everywhere, how is it that our attitude about sex is so damned screwed up?
The artists of the new millennium are every bit as tortured as the artists who came before.
It must have been so tempting to make a film for the fans. Happily, Stacy Peralta took a more nuanced approach and came up with pure joy.
Talkin’ CHARLES BRADLEY: SOUL OF AMERICA with director Poull Brien as Hot Docs festival coverage continues.