#HOTDOCS: 2024 HOT DOCS FESTIVAL SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS LINEUP ANNOUNCED
Hot Docs is excited to announce the full lineup of new documentary features that will screen in this year’s Festival’s Special Presentations program, a stellar lineup of films that promise to inspire, inform, and entertain Festival audiences. Titles in this program feature visionary filmmakers, intriguing subjects, and riveting storytelling. The 2024 Hot Docs Festival will take place April 25 to May 5, 2024 in cinemas across Toronto.
The 2024 Special Presentations program will delve ...
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#HOTDOCS: “BORN HUNGRY” TO PREMIERE AT HOT DOCS 2024
Barry Avrich's BORN HUNGRY is poised for a Canadian debut at this year's HOT DOCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL April 26, 2024.
SYNOPSIS:He went looking for his family … and found himself.
An inspiring true story brought to life, BORN HUNGRY is a gritty yet life-affirming human drama about a young Indian boy who finds himself abandoned by his family, lost on trains and thousands of miles from home. Now, Sash, a celebrity chef who once survived alone on the streets of Chennai eating from ...
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#GIVEAWAY: ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF “GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE”
Warner Bros. Pictures Canada x Mr. Will are thrilled to give Readers a chance to win passes to an Advance Screening of GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver!
SYNOPSIS:
The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of “Godzilla vs. Kong” with an all-new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: CBC’S “THE NATURE OF THINGS” TO EXPLORE SEXUAL FLUIDITY WITH MAE MARTIN IN “LIFE BEYOND THE BINARY”
Producer Robert Lang (Why We Dance, Museum Secrets) and director Michelle Mama (Shine True) bring Kensington Communications’ latest project Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary to CBC’s The Nature of Things launching on March 28, 2024 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC and CBC Gem. Hosted by the award-winning non-binary comedian Mae Martin, the film explores the little-known science of gender and sexual fluidity in the natural world.
Fluid debunks dangerous pseudo-scientific myths and introduces ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW CLIP FROM “MONKEYMAN”
Premiering tonight at SXSW '24 we get a brand-new clip from Dev Patel's directorial debut, MONKEYMAN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1PuVDh14h4
Synopsis:
Oscar® nominee Dev Patel (Lion, Slumdog Millionaire) achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, ...
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#GIVEAWAY: ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF “3 BODY PROBLEM”
Netflix Canada x Mr. Will are thrilled to give Readers a chance to attend an advance screening of 3 BODY PROBLEM! Screening of episode one takes place Monday, March 18 at 7PM at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto.
Synopsis:
From multiple Emmy Award-winning creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones), and Emmy-nominated Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy, True Blood) comes 3 Body Problem, a thrilling story that redefines sci-fi drama with its layered mysteries and ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: “THEM: THE SCARE” COMING TO PRIME VIDEO CANADA
Today, Prime Video has released first-look images of the horror anthology series Them: The Scare. This second installment will consist of eight episodes and will premiere on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. All episodes will be available upon release.
THEM will once again be set in Los Angeles (the first installment, subtitled Covenant, took place in Compton circa 1952 but will move the time frame forward to 1991). The story centers on LAPD ...
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#SXSW: “ANY OTHER WAY: THE JACKIE SHANE STORY”
By Mr. Will Wong
Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee co-direct ANY OTHER WAY: THE JACKIE SHANE STORY, which explores the fascinating story of Black trans singer Jackie Shane, raised in Nashville, but planting her roots musically in Toronto in their early '60s, where she was prominent for her soulful vocals reaching #2 on charts locally including CHUM with "Any Other Way".
Outspoken and ahead of her time in her defiance against the machine, Shane was a trailblazer unafraid of her ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: CAFF TO HOST FIRST GALA SCREENING
Prince Edward County (PEC)’s first film festival, the County Adaptation Film Festival (CAFF) will host its first gala screening on May 4, 2024 at the historic Regent Theatre in Picton, Ontario as a preview event to its festival this coming September.
The conversation begins on May 4 with a screening of Hugh Welchman and DK Welchman’s THE PEASANTS. Like the festival to come, this special engagement will feature an exclusive conversation with artists and an exciting activation which ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: TRAILER FOR “THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND THREE MORE!”
Hot off its win last night at the Academy Awards for Best Short Film, we get a new Trailer for THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND THREE MORE! Oscar®-winning short, THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR is included!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C33ucZ0vuks
WES ANDERSON ON WINNING HIS FIRST OSCAR®:"If I could have been there, I (along with Steven Rales) would have said "Thank you" to: the family of Roald Dahl; the team at Netflix; our cast and crew; and also: if i had not met Owen ...
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