Shook: TIFF 2024 Review
Amar Wala's Shook is a love letter to Scarborough with a distinct sense of place and a strong performance by Saamer Usmani.
Amar Wala
This Week at The Bloor: 11/7/14
This week, The Bloor offers films looking at the ethical and legal problems of security certificates in The Secret Trial 5 and misunderstood urban communities in Slums: Cities of Tomorrow.
Hot Docs 2014: The Secret Trial 5 Review
The Secret Trial 5 Canadian Spectrum An in depth look at an ongoing thirteen year nightmare for five Canadian families, The Secret Trial 5 examines the shadowy and highly unethical concept of detaining those suspected of having committed or potentially committing crimes to be held on “security certificates.” A remnant from the Cold War, these […]
53 Hot Tickets at Hot Docs 2014
The Measure of All Things The rarest ticket of the festival is this one night/one show only of Academy Award nominated filmmaker Sam Green’s live directed, conducted, narrated, and mixed documentary inspired by The Guinness Book of Records. With a soundtrack from The Quavers, the film blends traditional storytelling with performance for what’s sure to […]
