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TIFF patrons are in for a treat. Not only are Toronto folk well served in April with Hot Docs, but Thom Powers has lassoed the who's who in doc film for this year's edition. Top three on my must see list include: Alex Gibney's Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer, Errol Morris' Tabloid and Charles Ferguson's Inside Job.

Doc programmer Thom Powers has assembled what appears to be a vintage offering this year, literally a who's who from the documentary field with world preems from Naomi Kawase, Errol Morris (see pic), Ondi Timoner, Alex Gibney, Kim Longinotto and Werner Herzog, while adding to the mix a foursome of must see documentaries from Cannes with Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light, Janus Metz's Armadillo and Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym.

Errol Morris is climbing on a project that at the core is based on factoids, but Zach Helm from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Stranger Than Fiction fame was hired to put a narrative spin to the project.

The exclusive clip we received sees The Financial Times’ Lionel Barber address the stark contrasts in two national newspapers’ reportage of the infamous pictures in question (Brits and Americans) and he poses the question: how did a well-respected media institution let their guard down?

Take my good word for it, nobody knows the real story. Everybody loves to imagine what these stories are. The natural human tendency is to imagine that these people are beyond the pail. They're not like you and me, they're in some deep sense sub human.