Coverage:
-Food for Thought: Maya Gallus's The Heat - Chatting with the director of Hot Docs' opening night film about female chefs breaking through a male-dominated field.
-A Song of Reconciliation: The Power of Gurrumul - Director Paul Williams and producer Shannon Swan discuss their film about the late Australian singer.
-"Rocky Mountain High: Grant Baldwin's The Mountain Life" - Be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the mountains in this visually stunning trek with a mother-daughter duo.
-"Ain't that America: The Films of Barbara Kopple" - a look at the career of Barbara Kopple, this year's Outstanding Achievement Retrospective subject at Hot Docs. She's easily my favourite documentary filmmaker. Harlan County, USA is my pick for the best doc ever made.
-"An Acadian Tragedy: Samara Chadwick's 1999": chatted with director Samara Chadwick about her haunting film that returns to her high school in Moncton, New Brunswick, which saw a wave of suicides at the eve of the new Millennium.
- "Tube Stakes: Michael Sparaga's United We Fan": Director Michael Sparaga discusses his film about passionate TV fans who campaign to save their favourite shows.
Reviews:
-The American Meme
-Andy Irons: Kissed by God
-Anote's Ark
-Bathtubs Over Broadway
-Call Her Ganda
-Constructing Albert
-Don't Be Nice
-Eternity Never Surrendered
-Grit
-Harvest Moon
-The Heat
-I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story
-Letter from Masanjia
-Love, Gilda
-McQueen
-Netizens
-On Her Shoulders
-Pick of the Litter
-Playing Hard
-The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret
-Shorts: Prince's Tale and Turning Tables
-Snowbirds
-The Strange Sound of Happiness
-Witkin & Witkin
