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Rock docs rarely offer contrition from their subjects. Yet it's the first things we see in the opening scene of the new Gordon Lightfoot doc...
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!['Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind' Is a Familiar Tale Well Told Directed by Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe]()
'Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind' Is a Familiar Tale Well Told Directed by Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe Published May 23, 2019 -
![Hot Docs Review: 'Pipe Dreams' Is a Gripping Look at an International Music Competition Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum]()
ReviewsHot Docs Review: 'Pipe Dreams' Is a Gripping Look at an International Music Competition Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum Published Apr 24, 2019Stacey Tenenbaum's surprisingly high-stakes documentary Pipe Dreams follows five musicians in the months leading up to the Canadian Internat...
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![Here Are All the Music Movies Playing Hot Docs in 2019]()
NewsHere Are All the Music Movies Playing Hot Docs in 2019 Published Mar 22, 2019Once again, this spring will see Toronto welcomely inundated with an onslaught of non-fiction films as Hot Docs returns from April 25 to May...
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![Pick of the Litter Directed by Don Hardy Jr. and Dana Nachman]()
ReviewsPick of the Litter Directed by Don Hardy Jr. and Dana Nachman Published May 02, 2018Aside from providing the ins-and-outs of how a valuable service works, documentary Pick of the Litter is just positively irresistible. As we...
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![Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Directed by Sara Driver]()
ReviewsBoom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Directed by Sara Driver Published May 01, 2018When Jean-Michel Basquiat moved to Manhatten's Lower East Side in the late '70s, it was a creative hub. Homeless, but wanting to paint, he t...
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![The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret Directed by Barry Avrich]()
ReviewsThe Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret Directed by Barry Avrich Published Apr 30, 2018Canadian documentarian Barry Avrich has history with Harvey Weinstein. In 2011, he made Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, a profil...
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![Of Fathers and Sons Directed by Talal Derki]()
ReviewsOf Fathers and Sons Directed by Talal Derki Published Apr 30, 2018When filmmaker Talal Derki journeys back to his homeland of northern Syria with a camera in tow, he finds an unrecognizable land ravaged by...
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![Gurrumul Directed by Paul Damien Williams]()
ReviewsGurrumul Directed by Paul Damien Williams Published Apr 26, 2018Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was a man of few words. Blind from birth and raised in an Indigenous tribe in Australia, English was maybe his f...
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![Playing Hard Directed by Jean-Simon Chartier]()
ReviewsPlaying Hard Directed by Jean-Simon Chartier Published Apr 25, 2018In 2017, the videogame industry reached the 100-billion-dollar mark in sales, double the annual box office, but the documentary Playing Hard...
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![Won't You Be My Neighbor? Directed by Morgan Neville]()
ReviewsWon't You Be My Neighbor? Directed by Morgan Neville Published Apr 23, 2018The world could really use a Mister Rogers right about now. In an age characterized by vitriol and hate, someone who exudes peace, warmth an...
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![Hot Docs Finally Achieves Gender Parity with 2018 Lineup]()
NewsHot Docs Finally Achieves Gender Parity with 2018 Lineup Published Mar 20, 2018Today, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival have announced the lineup for their 25th edition and it's truly a doozy. The...
