This was the second virtual edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival and I do have to make note of how much of a challenge it is to cover a film festival remotely. While I do hope that Hot Docs returns to cinemas for its 2022 edition, I still managed to see a decent number…
Australia’s “Queen of Honky Tonk” sets off to fulfil her dream of recording in Nashville in I’m Wanita. Wanita is a 47-year-old country music singer based in Tamworth, Australia, who has been spending the past 25 years trying to fulfil her dream of being a star like her idol Loretta Lynn. With the help of her…
A group of 11 LQBTQ+ Vancouverites sponsor a refugee from Uganda in Someone Like Me. Canada is the only country in the world with legislation in place to allow LGBTQ refugees from around the globe into the country. Rainbow Refugee is a private sponsorship group in Vancouver, which is currently sponsoring Drake, a queer refugee…
Thousands of women who left their countries to join ISIS find themselves in limbo at a Syrian detention camp in The Return: Life After ISIS. Spurred on by propaganda videos promising a utopia for Muslims, thousands of radicalized teenage women left their Western countries and travelled to Syria as ISIS recruits. However, after arriving in…
A small farm in Wales gets converted into one of the first residential recording studios in Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm. Fifty years ago, brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward decided to convert their family farm outside of the town of Monmouth in Wales into a recording studio. The stables and pig sheds were equipped with…
The stereotypes surrounding black women and the definition of beauty are explored in Subjects of Desire. The year 2019 was a watershed moment, where the winners of the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss America winners were all black women. This goes against the stereotypes that were perpetrated for decades,…
The indigenous custom of peace-circles are used to helped troubled youth in A Once and Future Peace. The concept of people sitting around and talking in circles has been around in every civilization. Harold Gatensby (Dahka T’lingit) and Judge Barry Stuart decided to adopt the longstanding T’lingit tradition of peace circles into the juvenile court….
The residents of a seaside Spanish town reflect on its status as a hedonistic tourist destination in Magaluf Ghost Town. Magaluf is a town located on the Spanish island of Mallorca, the economy of which is solely driven by the British tourists, who embark on the town every summer. Filmmaker Miguel Ángel Blanca follows Magaluf residents…
Bruce Mau presents his philosophy about the world of design in Mau. Over the course of his career, Bruce Mau has come to be known as not only one of the Earth’s great designers, but also one of the world’s great thinkers. Believing that you have the power to redesign your life, Mau shares his key…
Filmmaker Joonas Neuvonen tries to find out what happened to his friends after a trip to Southeast Asia in Lost Boys. Following the release of his addict friends Jani and Antti from prison, Joonas Neuvonen accompanies them on a sex and drug-fueled trip to Bangkok, Thailand and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Joonas ends up returning home alone…
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