Hot Docs
Toronto's Hot Docs Festival Announces 2020 Lineup Without Screening Dates
PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2020
After postponing its 2020 edition last month, Toronto's Hot Docs festival has revealed its lineup ahead of announcing any firm dates "to ho...
'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
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 do...
Hot Docs Review: 'Pipe Dreams' Is a Gripping Look at an International Music Competition
Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2019
Stacey Tenenbaum's surprisingly high-stakes documentary Pipe Dreams follows five musicians in the months leading up to the Canadian Interna...
Here Are All the Music Movies Playing Hot Docs in 2019
PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2019
Once again, this spring will see Toronto welcomely inundated with an onslaught of non-fiction films as Hot Docs returns from April 25 to Ma...
Pick of the Litter
Directed by Don Hardy Jr. and Dana Nachman
PUBLISHED May 2, 2018
Aside from providing the ins-and-outs of how a valuable service works, documentary Pick of the Litter is just positively irresistible. As w...
Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Directed by Sara Driver
PUBLISHED May 1, 2018
When 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...
Of Fathers and Sons
Directed by Talal Derki
PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2018
When filmmaker Talal Derki journeys back to his homeland of northern Syria with a camera in tow, he finds an unrecognizable land ravaged by...
The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret
Directed by Barry Avrich
PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2018
Canadian documentarian Barry Avrich has history with Harvey Weinstein. In 2011, he made Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, a profi...