Tag: Hot Docs 2013
Interview: Daniel Dencik (Expedition to the End of the World)
There is a massive stylistic difference between director Daniel Dencik's meditative 8 mm cycling film, Moon Rider, and his second, character clashing adventure, Expedition...
Expedition to the End of the World | Review
Dencik Sails For Science and Existentialism
At first glance, Danish director Daniel Dencik's Expedition to the End of the World seems a blatant ripoff of...
Interview: AJ Schnack and Nathan Truesdell (Caucus and We Always Lie To Strangers)
Director AJ Schnack and his producing partner Nathan Truesdell had an incredibly busy week at the 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival, peddling a pair...
Elena | Review
Float On: Costa Laments Sister In Intimate Portrait
Petra Costa has been trying to process the suicide of her older sister for over two decades...
12 O’Clock Boys | Review
Battles In Baltimore: Nathan Rides With The Boys
First time director Lotfy Nathan has spent the last few years documenting war in the streets of...
Interview: Lotfy Nathan (12 O’Clock Boys)
Lotfy Nathan seems to have quite the bright future ahead of him with his bold docu debut, 12 O’Clock Boys, finding it’s world premiere...
Interview: Shaul Schwarz (Narco Cultura)
Shaul Schwarz comes from a different ilk of filmmaker than your standard shooter of vérité imagery and sit down interviews. He made his name...
Blood Brother | Review
India, AIDS & Amity: Hoover Follows Friend's Heart
It's really no wonder that often when westerners find themselves drifting, looking for more from life, they...
Interview: Steve Hoover (Blood Brother)
Steve Hoover hasn't been known for his non-fiction fare, working mainly on commercial projects and music videos through his co-owned production company Endeavor Media...
Interview: Marta Cunningham (Valentine Road)
Larry King, the 15 year-old boy who's murder became the genesis for Marta Cunningham's jaw-dropping, tear-jerking powerhouse investigative debut, Valentine Road, is memorialized through...
Bending Steel | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Carroll's Debut A Wonder-ful Metamorphosis
It turns out that being an old time strongman has less to do with bulging muscles, leopard skin leotards and...
Fuck For Forest | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Exploits For Earth: Marczak Gazes Into The Gutter
After the breakout success of his docu debut At the Edge of Russia, Polish director Michal Marczak...
15 Reasons To Live | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Zweig Somberly Celebrates Human Resilience
Occasionally, moments of epiphany can boil down the colossal essence of mortality into simple, elegant terms. For Alan Zweig, director...
Alias | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Latimer Drops Beat On Toronto's Rap Scene
Taking it's name from one of the four Toronto street rappers it peeks into the lives of, Michelle...
The Manor | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Polemic Crisis: Cohen Turns Camera On His Fam
Having flown the coop over a decade ago to work in the film industry as a digital...