Victoria s Sean Horleor, left, and his partner, Steve J. Adams, wrote and directed Someone Like Me, which recently won the audience award for Canadian feature documentary at Toronto s Hot Docs film festival. It is available for streaming until May 16 through Vancouver Doxa festival (doxafestival.ca). Photo: Grady Mitchell Victoria-bred filmmaker Sean Horlor has Donald Trump to thank (or is it blame?) for his recent success at the largest documentary film festival in North America. Someone Like Me, which the Vancouver-based Horlor, 40, co-wrote and co-directed with his partner, Steve J. Adams, snagged one of five Rogers Audience Award trophies and $10,000 in cash at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival on Sunday. The roots of the film about a group of LQBTQ Vancouverites who attempt to sponsor a queer refugee from Uganda date back to 2015, when Trump was positioning himself for a run at the U.S. presidency.
Ostrov â Lost Island is not lost on Hot Docs, winning the Best International Feature Documentary Award
Four Seasons in a Day, were also noticed at the Canadian gathering
Laurent Stoop and Svetlana Rodina accepting their Best International Feature Documentary Award for
Ostrov â Lost Island during the online awards ceremony
Itâs a wrap â the 28
th edition of North Americaâs largest documentary festival, Hot Docs, concluded on 9 May with 11 awards and CAD 67,000 (roughly â¬45,500) presented to Canadian and international filmmakers during an online ceremony. On the European front,
Svetlana Rodina and
Laurent Stoop, was named Best International Feature Documentary. Described by Cineuropa as a story âbetween utopia and dystopia, speaking of modern-day Russia torn between nostalgia and harsh realityâ, and focusing on the people living on the titular fishing island in the Caspian Sea, it led jurors
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Pivots to. Drive-In Theatre!
Films on the gig economy, Fanny, and a mysterious bitcoin death are all on offer at the PNE Amphitheatre.
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Fanny: The Right to Rock, which chronicles the story of rock queens from the 1970s, will screen at the DOXA festival s first ever drive-in theatre.
If you wanted to do drive-in movies the old-fashioned way, you’d cram as many people as possible into a car (including a few in the trunk) and pack giant, grease-spotted grocery bags of homemade popcorn along with bottles of generic soda pop with names like Spronk and Sort-of-Cola. You’d have to pee like a racehorse in the final climactic scene of the film, but that’s the price you pay for all that delicious fizz.
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It’s also important.
The two-hour film takes a look at the opioid crisis on the Kainai First Nation and how members of the community have chosen trust and empathy as foundational approaches toward saving lives and creating successful harm-reduction strategies.
Tailfeathers, who has been writing, producing and directing films for 10 years and has an extensive acting resumé, lives in Vancouver, but her family roots run deep into the Blackfoot reserve 200 kilometres south of Calgary.
Her mother, Esther Tailfeathers, has been a doctor on the reserve for two decades and plays a large role in the film. Through many conversations with her mom and seeing the devastation of the opioid crisis up-close a cousin overdosed and died Tailfeathers knew she had to tell the story of her community.