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March 22, 2011
Hot Docs Unveils 18th Edition Film Slate
The Hollywood Reporter
by Etan Vlessing
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival's 18th edition is to open April 28 with Morgan Spurlock's POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.
Spurlock's feature doc on advertising and product placement paid for entirely by advertising and product placement comes to Toronto for a Canadian premiere at the Winter Gardens Theatre by way of Sundance and the SXSW Film Festival, and ahead of the Sony Pictures Classics release on April 22.
As Hot Docs unveiled its feature film program Tuesday, the festival said it will unspool 199 documentaries from 23 countries over ten sidebars.
Don't expect love-at-first-sight storylines or blue-lit love scenes. Hot Docs means mostly celebrity-driven pics or portraits about the realities of war and conflict and personal struggle.
Sean Farnel, Hot Docs director of programming, said the main film themes this year include the arrogance of power, problematic families and "directors becoming fictional characters in their own films." There's also a world premiere for Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's Battle for Brooklyn in the World Showcase program, which captures a community fighting to stop developer Bruce Ratner demolishing a Brooklyn community to make way for a New Jersey Nets basketball arena and commercial towers.
More info and tickets at the Hot Docs web site.
Posted by eric at March 22, 2011 5:10 PM