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Hot Docs 2013 #2: Uphill Battles

A number of films were screened for the media before the festival, and I was lucky enough to catch a bunch of them. Who Is Dayani Cristal? (5/8) is...

Vickie
HotDocs

Hot Docs 2013 #1: What’s Up, Docs?

April is drawing to a close and that can mean only one thing: the return of Toronto’s annual documentary festival! Hooray! As anyone who’s read my fest coverage over...

Vickie
Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival 2012

2012 Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival impresses with its short film selection

Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival October 5th – 7th, 2012 SIFF Film Center / SIFF Cinema Uptown Seattle, Washington USA http://www.mifff.org/ I have to give a shout-out to the...

Linda
SIFF12

SIFF 2012: Golden Space Needle Awards and other winners

The Golden Space Needle Audience Awards are given in the following categories: Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Short Film. More than 88,000...

Linda
TIFF 2012: And the winners are...

TIFF 2012: And the winners are…

And, so, another festival draws to a close. Yesterday, TIFF handed out its trophies for 2012, and you can read about all the winners here. Much to my surprise...

Vickie
HotDocs 2010 Day Six: Lessons and Love

Hot Docs 2012: Women in India + The End

It’s always sad when Hot Docs ends. It’s like the end of ten days of documentary-movie camp, during which I got to hang out with all kinds of neat...

Vickie
HotDocs 2010 Day Six: Lessons and Love

Hot Docs 2012: Waiting

Partly by design and partly by coincidence, my entire day – in terms of screenings and experiences – somehow dealt with waiting. Literally and/or figuratively. First up was Waiting...

Vickie
HotDocs 2010 Day Six: Lessons and Love

Hot Docs 2012: Learning

One of my favorite things about Hot Docs, and documentaries in general, is learning about something – a person, a place, a practice, an event, an idea, whatever –...

Vickie
HotDocs 2010 Day Six: Lessons and Love

Hot Docs 2012: Between-Film Buzz

It’s always funny to me which screenings wind up packed to the rafters and which ones are barely attended. Even better, as the festival goes on, it’s interesting to...

Vickie
HotDocs 2010 Day Six: Lessons and Love

Hot Docs 2012: Exposure

Sometimes, even a two-screening day can feel long… especially when your digestive system reacts poorly to something you ate the previous afternoon. So it was that I made my...

Vickie
HotDocs 2010 Day Six: Lessons and Love

Hot Docs 2012: Four Films About Families

What better way to follow a “light” movie-going day than to see if I’ve still got what it takes to pull off one with four back-to-back screenings? Happily, it...

Vickie
HotDocs 2010 Day Six: Lessons and Love

Hot Docs 2012: New School and Old School

As many frequent festivalgoers will likely attest: sometimes, when you’re seeing a whole slew of movies in a fairly short amount of time, you need a “light” day in...

Vickie