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U.S. documentary Unbranded wins audience award at Hot Docs
Wednesday May 06th 2015Unbranded, American director Phillip Baribeau’s visually stunning documentary about four cowboys on a quest to help wild mustangs lassoed the Vimeo On Demand Audience Award at the close of Hot Docs’ 22nd edition.
It was a record year for North America’s largest non-fiction film festival, with some 200,500 people watching 210 films over 11 days.
Last year, Hot Docs had audiences of 192,000 people with 180,000 at the fest in 2013.
Runner-up in the Top 20 list of audience-chosen favourites was Canadian director Shelley Saywell’s inspiring Lowdown Tracks, where she teamed with activist-musician Lorraine Segato to explore the lives of Toronto’s marginalized and homeless, who tell their stories through music.
Lowdown Tracks plays Saturday at the Royal as part of Canadian Music Week. Watch listings for screenings of other Hot Docs 2015 titles through the year.
Coming third was The Messenger. Canadian director Su Rynard sounds a warming with her doc exploring the shocking decline in the global songbird population — and what that heralds for humans.
“This year’s Top 20 showcases, again, that there is a passionate appetite for diverse and smart documentary programming, and we’re happy to note the list includes no shortage of outstanding director-driven Canadian docs,” said Hot Docs executive director Brett Hendrie.
Filmmakers attending Hot Docs chose Welcome to Leith for the Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker Award. Directed by Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, it traces white supremacist Craig Cobb’s chilling plan to buy up land in a remote area of North Dakota to create a homeland for neo-Nazis.
The Docs in Schools program hosted free screenings of 10 films for about 87,000 students during Hot Docs. These young audiences had their own pick for best film, choosing T-Rex, the story of Claressa Shields, winner of the first ever women’s boxing Olympic gold medal at age 17.
Shields, of Flint, Mich., surprised an audience at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema by doing a Q&A session after a T-Rex screening April 27.
On Friday, the fest announced its top jury prizes with Charles Wilkinson’s Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World taking the $10,000 Best Canadian Feature Documentary award and Karen Guthrie’s The Closer We Get awarded $10,000 for Best International Feature Documentary.
Source: Toronto Star
Front Page, Industry News
U.S. documentary Unbranded wins audience award at Hot Docs
Wednesday May 06th 2015Unbranded, American director Phillip Baribeau’s visually stunning documentary about four cowboys on a quest to help wild mustangs lassoed the Vimeo On Demand Audience Award at the close of Hot Docs’ 22nd edition.
It was a record year for North America’s largest non-fiction film festival, with some 200,500 people watching 210 films over 11 days.
Last year, Hot Docs had audiences of 192,000 people with 180,000 at the fest in 2013.
Runner-up in the Top 20 list of audience-chosen favourites was Canadian director Shelley Saywell’s inspiring Lowdown Tracks, where she teamed with activist-musician Lorraine Segato to explore the lives of Toronto’s marginalized and homeless, who tell their stories through music.
Lowdown Tracks plays Saturday at the Royal as part of Canadian Music Week. Watch listings for screenings of other Hot Docs 2015 titles through the year.
Coming third was The Messenger. Canadian director Su Rynard sounds a warming with her doc exploring the shocking decline in the global songbird population — and what that heralds for humans.
“This year’s Top 20 showcases, again, that there is a passionate appetite for diverse and smart documentary programming, and we’re happy to note the list includes no shortage of outstanding director-driven Canadian docs,” said Hot Docs executive director Brett Hendrie.
Filmmakers attending Hot Docs chose Welcome to Leith for the Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker Award. Directed by Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, it traces white supremacist Craig Cobb’s chilling plan to buy up land in a remote area of North Dakota to create a homeland for neo-Nazis.
The Docs in Schools program hosted free screenings of 10 films for about 87,000 students during Hot Docs. These young audiences had their own pick for best film, choosing T-Rex, the story of Claressa Shields, winner of the first ever women’s boxing Olympic gold medal at age 17.
Shields, of Flint, Mich., surprised an audience at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema by doing a Q&A session after a T-Rex screening April 27.
On Friday, the fest announced its top jury prizes with Charles Wilkinson’s Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World taking the $10,000 Best Canadian Feature Documentary award and Karen Guthrie’s The Closer We Get awarded $10,000 for Best International Feature Documentary.
Source: Toronto Star
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Front Page, Industry News
U.S. documentary Unbranded wins audience award at Hot Docs
Wednesday May 06th 2015Unbranded, American director Phillip Baribeau’s visually stunning documentary about four cowboys on a quest to help wild mustangs lassoed the Vimeo On Demand Audience Award at the close of Hot Docs’ 22nd edition.
It was a record year for North America’s largest non-fiction film festival, with some 200,500 people watching 210 films over 11 days.
Last year, Hot Docs had audiences of 192,000 people with 180,000 at the fest in 2013.
Runner-up in the Top 20 list of audience-chosen favourites was Canadian director Shelley Saywell’s inspiring Lowdown Tracks, where she teamed with activist-musician Lorraine Segato to explore the lives of Toronto’s marginalized and homeless, who tell their stories through music.
Lowdown Tracks plays Saturday at the Royal as part of Canadian Music Week. Watch listings for screenings of other Hot Docs 2015 titles through the year.
Coming third was The Messenger. Canadian director Su Rynard sounds a warming with her doc exploring the shocking decline in the global songbird population — and what that heralds for humans.
“This year’s Top 20 showcases, again, that there is a passionate appetite for diverse and smart documentary programming, and we’re happy to note the list includes no shortage of outstanding director-driven Canadian docs,” said Hot Docs executive director Brett Hendrie.
Filmmakers attending Hot Docs chose Welcome to Leith for the Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker Award. Directed by Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, it traces white supremacist Craig Cobb’s chilling plan to buy up land in a remote area of North Dakota to create a homeland for neo-Nazis.
The Docs in Schools program hosted free screenings of 10 films for about 87,000 students during Hot Docs. These young audiences had their own pick for best film, choosing T-Rex, the story of Claressa Shields, winner of the first ever women’s boxing Olympic gold medal at age 17.
Shields, of Flint, Mich., surprised an audience at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema by doing a Q&A session after a T-Rex screening April 27.
On Friday, the fest announced its top jury prizes with Charles Wilkinson’s Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World taking the $10,000 Best Canadian Feature Documentary award and Karen Guthrie’s The Closer We Get awarded $10,000 for Best International Feature Documentary.
Source: Toronto Star
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