Valentine Road Discrimination is universal and some of the most horrible examples of it are happening in our very own schools. Valentine Road is a n emotional gut punch of a film, keeping manipulation at bay and let ting the story of its sadly departed victim of high school violence and those affected by […]
This week at The Bloor, entertaining looks at some hard headed intellectual icons that are often talked about in hushed reverential tones: atheist pundits Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins in The Unbelievers and the the late, controversial American writer and wit Gore Vidal in Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia .
We talk to Steve Hoover, the director of the documentary Blood Brother , about his relationship with his best friend has progressed as a result of filming him working with children suffering from AIDS and HIV in rural India, the two sides to his friend's personality, and the film’s gut punching opening sequence.
That Shelf talks to filmmaker John Kastner about his latest effort, NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (debuting on CBC Doc Zone this Thursday), and the hot button issue of people accused of violent crime, but who are unable to stand trial for mental health reasons.
With the film portion of this year's 19th annual NXNE festival kicking off this Thursday, we take a look at six of this years offerings: All Out War , Mistaken for Strangers , BB King - The Life of Reily , The Rolling Stones - Charlie is My Darling - Ireland 1965 , Filmage - The Story of Descendants/ALL , and Global Groove Network .
We sit down with The Ghosts in Our Machine director Liz Marshall to talk about documenting her friend Jo-Anne McArthur's efforts to advocate for animals caught up in the machine of modern life, how the two friend's stories paralleled each other, steeling herself to look at animal abuse, and why you don't need to be a vegan to help in the lives of animals.
The Guelph, Ontario strip club set documentary The Manor is an alternately amusing and heartbreaking look at a barely functional family that could have only made by someone who truly loves and cares for his subjects.
A thought provoking, if somewhat purposefully disheartening, look at hunger in America, A Place at the Table works wonders by focusing on the personal lives affected by political decisions.
The line-up for the 2013 - and 20th anniversary of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival came out this morning and here are some things to look forward to across the 205 selected films when it all gets underway on Thursday, April 25th through Friday, May 5th.
Pitched somewhere between a documentary and a fever dream, Bill and Turner Ross’ Tchoupitoulas is one of those rare cinematic experiences: a true original. Pushing the boundaries of what qualifies as a documentary while still staying true to the purest form of fly-on-the-wall cinema verite, the film is a wholly unique experience. At once an abstract art piece and childish flight of whimsy, it’s a movie that begs to be soaked up and adored by any film lover.
As raw and real as being a teenager could possibly without resorting to forced theatrics or pigeonholing its characters, the documentary Only the Young is one of the best 2012 documentaries you didn't get to see last year. You should probably rectify this when it screens three times at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto this coming week.
This week's Kickstarter of the Week takes a look at the documentary The Secret Trial 5 and why they could use your help!
We talk to director Bart Layton about his intense and mysterious new documentary The Imposter and the challenges of finding truth in a bunch of liars.
Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing's documentary Detropia crafts a stunning portrait of the city of Detroit at its lowest point, but while the film is haunting, it isn't without hope or merely a document of a once great city now ravaged by poverty.
An apolitical look at one man’s struggle to readapt to civilian life following a harrowing, life altering experience in Afghanistan, director Danfung Dennis' documentary Hell and Back Again has an uncomfortable and visceral impact on the viewer that will leave them stunned and in awe of what they’ve just witnessed.
