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Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival will open with League of Exotique Dancers
Thursday March 31st 2016The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival opens with Toronto filmmaker Rama Rau’s League of Exotique Dancers, a revealing visit to Las Vegas and the golden age of burlesque, led by the women who were its stars.
The festival, which runs April 28 to May 8, announced an expanded lineup Tuesday morning at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, with a slate of 232 films from 51 countries. Director of programming Shane Smith said documentaries from 100 female filmmakers will be shown, making up 40 per cent of the program.
Among the highlights:
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins (Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru) will get a chance to show his persuasive skills as part of the six-film Scotiabank Big Ideas Series, which blends onstage conversations with films.
The small screen also gets its moment with new five-episode ESPN documentary series O.J. Simpson: Made in America, with director Ezra Edelman and American sports journalist Robert Lipsyte in attendance. Or try a live, in-theatre group therapy session as graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister shares what he learned on his self-improvement quest — including hopping around New York in a pink bunny suit — in The Happy Film.
The expanded DocX program offers films that go beyond the screen via experiences including virtual reality and one-night-only live doc performances that let audiences participate in various ways. Offerings include Cyrus Sundar Singh’s Brother in the Kitchen and the Canadian premiere of Operation Avalanche, Matt Johnson’s narrative-style doc that ponders whether the American moon landing was a hoax.
Among films from female filmmakers at Hot Docs 2016:
The Apology: Toronto director Tiffany Hsiung shares the stories of three from among the 200,000 “comfort women,” girls and young women forced into sexual slavery in military brothels in Japanese-occupied Asia during the Second World War. Meehyang Yoon, director of the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery, and documentary subject Gil Won-Ok are expected to attend the Big Ideas Series screening.
AngryInuk: Think you know what Canada’s seal hunt is about? Iqaluit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril makes her feature debut with this look at how a young generation of Inuit are using social media — hashtag #sealfie — to change the conversation about how animal rights campaigns generated outside their communities are destroying the way of life for many thousands of Inuit who rely on hunting and selling seal skins for their livelihood.
Cheer Up: Christy Garland (The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song) travels to northern Finland to meet an unhappy team of teen cheerleaders who just can’t seem to get a break. They try to step up but their game, but there’s more going in their emotional lives than trying to nail complex routines.
Sonita: Writer-director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s doc profiles Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan living in conservative Tehran. The budding rapper and artist isn’t going to accept her traditional family’s plan to “sell” her into marriage, making a tough-minded protest rap and music video: “Bride for Sale.”
Go to hotdocs.ca for a complete list of films and ticket information.
Source: Toronto Star
Front Page, Headline, Industry News
Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival will open with League of Exotique Dancers
Thursday March 31st 2016The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival opens with Toronto filmmaker Rama Rau’s League of Exotique Dancers, a revealing visit to Las Vegas and the golden age of burlesque, led by the women who were its stars.
The festival, which runs April 28 to May 8, announced an expanded lineup Tuesday morning at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, with a slate of 232 films from 51 countries. Director of programming Shane Smith said documentaries from 100 female filmmakers will be shown, making up 40 per cent of the program.
Among the highlights:
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins (Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru) will get a chance to show his persuasive skills as part of the six-film Scotiabank Big Ideas Series, which blends onstage conversations with films.
The small screen also gets its moment with new five-episode ESPN documentary series O.J. Simpson: Made in America, with director Ezra Edelman and American sports journalist Robert Lipsyte in attendance. Or try a live, in-theatre group therapy session as graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister shares what he learned on his self-improvement quest — including hopping around New York in a pink bunny suit — in The Happy Film.
The expanded DocX program offers films that go beyond the screen via experiences including virtual reality and one-night-only live doc performances that let audiences participate in various ways. Offerings include Cyrus Sundar Singh’s Brother in the Kitchen and the Canadian premiere of Operation Avalanche, Matt Johnson’s narrative-style doc that ponders whether the American moon landing was a hoax.
Among films from female filmmakers at Hot Docs 2016:
The Apology: Toronto director Tiffany Hsiung shares the stories of three from among the 200,000 “comfort women,” girls and young women forced into sexual slavery in military brothels in Japanese-occupied Asia during the Second World War. Meehyang Yoon, director of the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery, and documentary subject Gil Won-Ok are expected to attend the Big Ideas Series screening.
AngryInuk: Think you know what Canada’s seal hunt is about? Iqaluit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril makes her feature debut with this look at how a young generation of Inuit are using social media — hashtag #sealfie — to change the conversation about how animal rights campaigns generated outside their communities are destroying the way of life for many thousands of Inuit who rely on hunting and selling seal skins for their livelihood.
Cheer Up: Christy Garland (The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song) travels to northern Finland to meet an unhappy team of teen cheerleaders who just can’t seem to get a break. They try to step up but their game, but there’s more going in their emotional lives than trying to nail complex routines.
Sonita: Writer-director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s doc profiles Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan living in conservative Tehran. The budding rapper and artist isn’t going to accept her traditional family’s plan to “sell” her into marriage, making a tough-minded protest rap and music video: “Bride for Sale.”
Go to hotdocs.ca for a complete list of films and ticket information.
Source: Toronto Star
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Front Page, Headline, Industry News
Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival will open with League of Exotique Dancers
Thursday March 31st 2016The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival opens with Toronto filmmaker Rama Rau’s League of Exotique Dancers, a revealing visit to Las Vegas and the golden age of burlesque, led by the women who were its stars.
The festival, which runs April 28 to May 8, announced an expanded lineup Tuesday morning at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, with a slate of 232 films from 51 countries. Director of programming Shane Smith said documentaries from 100 female filmmakers will be shown, making up 40 per cent of the program.
Among the highlights:
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins (Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru) will get a chance to show his persuasive skills as part of the six-film Scotiabank Big Ideas Series, which blends onstage conversations with films.
The small screen also gets its moment with new five-episode ESPN documentary series O.J. Simpson: Made in America, with director Ezra Edelman and American sports journalist Robert Lipsyte in attendance. Or try a live, in-theatre group therapy session as graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister shares what he learned on his self-improvement quest — including hopping around New York in a pink bunny suit — in The Happy Film.
The expanded DocX program offers films that go beyond the screen via experiences including virtual reality and one-night-only live doc performances that let audiences participate in various ways. Offerings include Cyrus Sundar Singh’s Brother in the Kitchen and the Canadian premiere of Operation Avalanche, Matt Johnson’s narrative-style doc that ponders whether the American moon landing was a hoax.
Among films from female filmmakers at Hot Docs 2016:
The Apology: Toronto director Tiffany Hsiung shares the stories of three from among the 200,000 “comfort women,” girls and young women forced into sexual slavery in military brothels in Japanese-occupied Asia during the Second World War. Meehyang Yoon, director of the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery, and documentary subject Gil Won-Ok are expected to attend the Big Ideas Series screening.
AngryInuk: Think you know what Canada’s seal hunt is about? Iqaluit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril makes her feature debut with this look at how a young generation of Inuit are using social media — hashtag #sealfie — to change the conversation about how animal rights campaigns generated outside their communities are destroying the way of life for many thousands of Inuit who rely on hunting and selling seal skins for their livelihood.
Cheer Up: Christy Garland (The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song) travels to northern Finland to meet an unhappy team of teen cheerleaders who just can’t seem to get a break. They try to step up but their game, but there’s more going in their emotional lives than trying to nail complex routines.
Sonita: Writer-director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s doc profiles Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan living in conservative Tehran. The budding rapper and artist isn’t going to accept her traditional family’s plan to “sell” her into marriage, making a tough-minded protest rap and music video: “Bride for Sale.”
Go to hotdocs.ca for a complete list of films and ticket information.
Source: Toronto Star
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