Category Archives: Hot Docs

Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival

Milking the Rhino

Editor’s Note: Doc Soup is a monthly documentary screening programme run by the good folks at Hot Docs. It gives audiences in Toronto (and now Calgary and Vancouver!) their regular doc fix each year from the fall through to the … Continue reading

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Recipes for Disaster (Katastrofin Aineksia)

Editor’s Note: Doc Soup is a monthly documentary screening programme run by the good folks at Hot Docs. It gives audiences in Toronto (and now Calgary and Vancouver!) their regular doc fix each year from the fall through to the … Continue reading

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Chris and Don. A Love Story

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Sean Farnel is Blogging

Through AJ Schnack’s quite wonderful All These Wonderful Things blog (which you should already be reading!), I discovered that Hot Docs honcho Sean Farnel has recently started blogging, and is writing about his European tour in search of great documentaries … Continue reading

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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008, Director: Kurt Kuenne): Messy and unapologetically manipulative, Dear Zachary feels quite a bit like the grieving process itself. Equal parts schmaltz and rage, it accurately reflects the feelings of … Continue reading

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