Joe Berlinger is an American filmmaker who often collaborates with fellow director Bruce Sinofsky on documentaries, which include the Paradise Lost trilogy, following the West Memphis Three, and Some Kind of Monster, a behind-the-scenes look at Metallica. Joe’s latest documentary is Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger, a look at the life… Continue reading Joe Berlinger Interview (Whitey)
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Jennifer Baichwal Interview (Watermark)
Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary director and producer whose films over the past 15 years often include artists as subjects, including Paul Bowles (Let It Come Down), Shelby Lee Adams (The True Meaning of Pictures), Paul Auster and Fred Frith (Act of God), Margaret Atwood (Payback) and Edward Burtynsky. In some cases they are… Continue reading Jennifer Baichwal Interview (Watermark)
Helene Klodawsky Interview (Come Worry With Us!)
Helene Klodawsky is a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose works include Motherhood (1994), Family Motel (2007) and Malls R Us (2009). Helene joined us at O’Borne Contemporary during Hot Docs 2014 to discuss her latest documentary, Come Worry With Us (2013), a look behind the realities of being in a touring band as a parent, through… Continue reading Helene Klodawsky Interview (Come Worry With Us!)
Christian Frei (Sleepless in New York)
Christian Frei is a Swiss filmmaker whose documentaries include the Academy Award nominated War Photographer (2001), The Giant Buddhas (2005) and Space Tourists (2009). His latest feature, Sleepless in New York (2014), tackles the subject of lovesickness and received its world premiere at Hot Docs 2014. Christian joined us at Voodoo Child to discuss the… Continue reading Christian Frei (Sleepless in New York)
Terrors of the night abound in THE NIGHTMARE (Hot Docs Review)
Following his widely celebrated video essay Room 237, Rodney Ascher returns to the world of the occult with The Nightmare, a hybrid doc centering around eight interviewees speaking about their experiences with sleep paralysis, and an even stranger connection with shared dreamscapes. The phenomenon of sleep paralysis inflicts a strange state of being on its victim, causing them to be… Continue reading Terrors of the night abound in THE NIGHTMARE (Hot Docs Review)
Finding Salvation in Family and Films: THE WOLFPACK (Hot Docs Review)
Among family profiles in the documentary genre, THE WOLFPACK is surely one of the most bizarre. Locked away in a cramped apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Crystal Moselle finds room to explore the Angulo’s – a clan of seven children – upbringing at the hands of a repressive, merciless father. Despite their… Continue reading Finding Salvation in Family and Films: THE WOLFPACK (Hot Docs Review)
The silver lining of sadness in TIG (Hot Docs Review)
On August 3rd, 2012, comedian Tig Notaro got on stage at the Largo nightclub in Los Angeles, announcing that she had cancer to a stunned audience of regular patrons and close friends. What transpired was considered by many to be a breakthrough, as Notaro channeled her pain into a now legendary stand-up set, which brought her widespread fame… Continue reading The silver lining of sadness in TIG (Hot Docs Review)
Tracy Droz Tragos & Andrew Droz Palermo (Rich Hill)
Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo are American filmmakers whose first collaborative feature, Rich Hill, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2014. Tracy had previously directed the 2004 Emmy Award-winning documentary, Be Good, Smile Pretty, while Andrew had been the cinematographer on several films, including Adam Wingard’s You’re Next. The duo were in… Continue reading Tracy Droz Tragos & Andrew Droz Palermo (Rich Hill)
Documenting the struggles of adulthood in SAM KLEMKE’S TIME MACHINE (2015)
The latest technology doc from Australian filmmaker Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure), Sam Klemke’s Time Machine documents the personal journey of its titular figure, over nearly four decades of personal progress. A selection at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, premiering a year after Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was praised for its encapsulation of childhood and adolescence, Bate’s film focus… Continue reading Documenting the struggles of adulthood in SAM KLEMKE’S TIME MACHINE (2015)
Frank Pavich Interview (Jodorowsky’s Dune)
Frank Pavich is an American documentary filmmaker whose first feature, N.Y.H.C.was a look at New York hardcore punk bands active during the mid-1990s. His follow-up, Jodorowsky’s Dune, also investigates a cult topic: the master filmmaker’s never-completed adaptation of the popular sci-fi novel. Frank joined us at our OCAD U studio space during the 2013 Toronto International… Continue reading Frank Pavich Interview (Jodorowsky’s Dune)
Alan Zweig Interview (When Jews Were Funny)
Alan Zweig is a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose films span a variety of topics through interviews with subjects – record collecting, curmudgeons, single women, ex-convicts, ‘reasons to live’ and Jewish humour – though each retain a degree of autobiographical investigation interwoven into the film. His first three films (Vinyl, I, Curmudgeon and Lovable) form an ‘autobiographical… Continue reading Alan Zweig Interview (When Jews Were Funny)
Lucy Walker Interview (The Crash Reel)
Lucy Walker is an English documentary filmmaker who has been nominated for the Academy Award for both Best Documentary Feature (Waste Land) and Short (The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom) with the latter winning the award. Walker’s documentaries span a number of topics, including Amish youth (Devil’s Playground), blind teen mountain climbers (Blindsight), artist Vik… Continue reading Lucy Walker Interview (The Crash Reel)