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So has anyone noticed that the SIFF tables and main ticket booth aren’t selling any festival schwag this year? No T-Shirts, posters, silly lunchboxes… nothin’! I mean, charging $10...
Now, I know a few people that wouldn’t have been caught within a mile radius of a screening of a documentary about ventriloquism. But, heck, I was curious. I...
What I love about going to movies at the Uptown or SIFF Cinema the first weekend of SIFF is the fact that the Folklife Festival is going on all...
So this is just like Seattle: We’ve had a horrifically crappy spring, full of rain and cold and constant gray skies. Sure there were teasers of a couple weekends...
My day nine was actually day ten of HotDocs. As mentioned in my previous entry, I didn’t see any films yesterday due to rain. And I almost didn’t see...
There comes a point in every film festival when I hit a wall. I get drowsy at screenings and “rest my eyes” from time to time, my patience is...
I have to start by saying that I continue to be impressed with how well HotDocs runs, how well-attended all its screenings are, and how accessible it is to...
I ended day five of the fest with a full-pie movie, and that’s exactly how I started day six. Rough Aunties (8/8), directed by Kim Longinotto (Sisters in Law,...
Here’s what I love most about having a HotDocs media pass: it allows me to make changes to my film-going schedule on the fly. If I need to rearrange...
Starting May 7th (for SIFF members; a day later for the general public), you may as well trumpet, “Release the hounds!” as SIFF tickets officially go on sale. The...
To borrow from the standard-issue introduction at every HotDocs screening, I have a little bit of housekeeping to take care of: the comments feature on these entries is a...
Sometimes I actually impress myself with my inadvertent thematic programming when I select my screenings at a film festival. For this year’s HotDocs fest, I made up my to-see...
