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UK broadcaster Sky has picked up Paul Kemp’s Nike’s Big Bet: Alberto Salazar and the Fine Line of Sport ahead of its North American premiere at Hot Docs this Thursday (April 29). Distributor Abacus Media Rights, part of Amcomri Media Group, also sold the film (pictured) to DR (Denmark), Channel Hot8 (Israel), Watcha (South Korea), Canal+ (Poland), and Nordic Entertainment Group (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Baltics). Canadian pubcaster CBC and ZDF/Arte (Germany/France) came on ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Maya Sarfaty’s absorbing and affecting movie, Love It Was Not, brings to light a singular story from the depths of the Holocaust. Scheduled to be screened online at the forthcoming Canadian I...

David Friend Christopher Doyon, known online as Anonymous hacktivist Commander X, is the subject of "The Face of Anonymous," which premieres at the Hot Docs film festival on Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Storyline Entertainment MANDATORY CREDIT April 26, 2021 - 1:00 AM TORONTO - Canadian filmmaker Gary Lang says he hopes his documentary about a member of the "hacktivist" group Anonymous reminds viewers of their own power to effect change. The Toronto-based writer a...

"I called my producer saying, This could be a flat-out catfish," Lang, a Toronto-based documentarian, recalled in a recent interview. "He’s always been homeless, he has no identity, he’s never had a passport, never paid taxes. Literally, he is ‘anonymous’ …. It would be not implausible for somebody to read about these things and make up a personal narrative." And so, Lang began sifting through Doyons connections in hopes of separating fact from fiction. The winding tale is captured in...

Christopher Doyon, known online as Anonymous hacktivist Commander X, is the subject of "The Face of Anonymous," which premieres at the Hot Docs film festival on Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Storyline Entertainment MANDATORY CREDIT TORONTO – When Gary Lang first met the subject of his “hacktivist” documentary in person, he couldn’t shake the suspicion he might’ve been duped by the guy known as Commander X. Christopher Doyon didn’t look like the sort of guy who helped lead an onl...

Hot Docs Review: Dark Blossom Is Part Documentary, Part Goth Lookbook Directed by Frigge Fri Josephine, Jay, Mareridt 7 One part documentary and one part lookbook, Dark Blossom tells the story of the next generations enduring attachment to the goth subculture. Examining the lives of three Danish goth kids — Josephine, Mareridt and Jay — director Frigge Fri maps their friendship as they transition from adolescent outsiders to early-20s adults: adjusting to jobs and relationships, carving ou...

Westdoc explores Jesse McCracken’s Hot Docs ’21 feature “Grey Roads” Realscreen is partnering with filmmaker and executive producer Chuck Braverman and his Westdoc Online video series to bring his interviews with acclaimed documentarians and non-fiction content industry figures to its readership. In ... April 26, 2021 Realscreen i...

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (L) and Tanya Talaga (R) share stories of their communities. Spirit To Soar (Tanya Talaga, Michelle Derosier), 46 minutes; Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning Of Empathy (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), 125 minutes. Both films available Thursday (April 29) at 10 am. hotdocs.ca. In the Hot Docs films Spirit To Soar and Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning Of Empathy, filmmakers Tanya Talaga and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers take us back to their Indigenous communities and honour the...

All Light, Everywhere Review: Fascinating, Fraught and Sinister Essay on the Unreliability of the Image All Light, Everywhere Review: Fascinating, Fraught and Sinister Essay on the Unreliability of the Image Surveillance, policing and spy pigeons figure into a chillingly insightful doc on the ethics of looking and the incompleteness of seeing. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Courtesy of Memory A highly persuasive film about how we should be wary of film’s power to persuade, T...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Reservoir Docs Acquires Goth Documentary Dark Blossom for International Sales Ahead of CPH:DOX, Hot Docs Screenings (EXCLUSIVE) Leo Barraclough, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail International documentary sales company Reservoir Docs has acquired Danish doc “Dark Blossom” ahead of its upcoming world premiere and international screenings at CPH:DOX and Hot Docs respectively. Reservoir Docs has secured exclusive worldwide sales rights, with the exception...