March 2007

Hot Docs 2007

by James McNally on March 24, 2007

in Documentaries,Film Festivals,Hot Docs

Hot Docs 2007

The Hot Docs 2007 Poster (pho­to­graphy by Rannie Turingan)

For the fourth year, I’m attending the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival. Because I have a full-time job that ISN’T reviewing film, I’m lim­iting myself again to ten films. Here are my choices, whittled down from at least 20:

The fest­ival takes place from April 19–29 this year, which is just right because in pre­vious years, it’s fallen right across a huge wine-tasting event that I help organize and I have been com­pletely stressed out. I’m really looking for­ward to writing and posting my reviews as always.

Video of the Press Conference from March 20, 2007

UPDATE: We got press accred­it­a­tion so there is a strong pos­sib­ility that we’ll be seeing a sig­ni­fic­antly higher number of films. Stay tuned for even more reviews and hope­fully some other surprises!

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Geoff Pevere Lecture Tonight

by James McNally on March 23, 2007

in Critics,Special Events

Toronto Star film critic Geoff Pevere is giving a free lec­ture tonight at Regis College (affil­i­ated with the University of Toronto) entitled “The Transcendental Screen: Spirituality in the Movies”. It’s part of Regis College’s Lenten Lecture series and takes place at 7:30pm in Elliott McGuigan Hall (67 St. Nicholas Street, near Yonge and Bloor). Full details here.

NOTE: If pre­vious lec­tures are any indic­a­tion, the lec­ture will be pod­cast and avail­able from the web page a few days later.

UPDATE: I’ve posted a longer art­icle on Geoff Pevere, based on an inter­view I con­ducted with him shortly after this lecture.

Tagged as: christianity, faith, geoffpevere, religion, spirituality

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