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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Hot Docs 2005
 
Revival, Little Italy
The press conference announcing this year's Canadian International Documentary Festival was this morning. Hitting the streets, starting today, are a half million copies of the screening schedule [above, right -- cover photos by Richard Koegl, cover design by... er, ME!].
There was a huge crowd of media and docmakers mixin' it up. Can you spot nanmac?
 This year's Focus On retrospective looks at the films of Larry Weinstein [left, another graduate of ye olde film programme at YorkU]. The Special Achievement Award Retrospective reviews the work of Errol Morris (A Brief History of Time, Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.) and he'll be interviewed onstage the evening of Saturday, April 30th.
The full schedule is now online at the Hot Docs website and you can purchase tickets online there.
 
[above, left] Festival Executive Director, Chris MacDonald, welcomes the crowd. [right] Canadian Spectrum programmers, Lynn Fernie and David MacIntosh, announce their slate of docs beside the BIG SIGN.
  
So here's the thing: I walk in and I recognize everybody even though I haven't met anyone because I've been staring at their pictures for two weeks. That means I get to play the fan and say to people, "Hey, you're so and so from Film X!" [above left] Jody Shapiro and [above, centre] Gisele Gordon have a doc called The Tunguska Project. Shapiro and David Best also have a doc called Icebreaker playing Saturday, April 23 at the Isabel Bader Theatre at 4:45pm. You should really go to that one (hint, hint). [above, right] Michelle is one of the subjects of Breakin' In - the Making of a Hip Hop Dancer.
 Leslie Thomas and Chris Romeike's [right] 9 Months, 6 Blocks documents the lives of three people living in Parkdale.
Earlier this month, I documented the lives of a plastic doll and shark in Parkdale.
There are some really good flicks in the programme this year. I'm looking forward to The Cross and Bones, which juxtaposes a community of religious fundamentalists with a neighbouring graveyard of dinosaur fossils and a biker convention.
  
[above, left] Another doc for Andrew Spicer and the rest of you political junkies: Min Sook Lee's Hogtown: The Politics of Policing covers the relations between the police and politicans in Toronto. [above, centre] Globe columnist Heather Mallick is a juror in the Spotlight on Israel programme. [above, right] Last year I shaved my head and spent the whole fest introducing myself, "Hi, I'm Marc Glassman." Only one person bought it. But I'm starting to get the hankering for a shaved head again ...
Hot Docs staff, Jenn Rose and Brett take a breather as the morning winds down. The festival begins three weeks from this Friday.
12:33 PM
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