Buttignol’s presence was crucial in the founding of DOC and the development of Hot Docs. The Creative Head of Network Programming at TVOntario, Buttignol talks to POV about his passionate involvement with documentary.
Hot Doc’s opening Canadian Spectrum film, Mozartballs, is the latest entry by Larry Weinstein, Rhombus Media’s playful creator of musical biographies. Along with Burnt Toast, a contemporary opera about marriage, the duo asserts Weinstein’s unique aesthetic appeal.
POV editor Elia traveled to Marseilles for Sunnyside of the DOC, plus she gives us the skinny on Hot Doc’s National Spotlight.
Canada’s Peter Lynch, the director of Project Grizzly, and Werner Herzog, the maker of Grizzly Man, document doomed quests. In a personal essay, Lynch extols the obsessions of Herzog, this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award recipient at Hot Docs.
Acclaimed Maritimes filmmaker MacGillivray has made such features as Life Classes, documentaries like the current Reading Alistair MacLeod and the CBC-TV series Gullage’s. Harcourt offers an assessment of MacGillivray’s documentary practice. V
Belgian brothers, Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne have directed two Cannes Palme d’Or winning films, Rosetta and L’enfant. Nayman and Tracy investigate the non-fiction roots of these prize-winning auteurs.
Two Sleepy People: Insomnia in the films of Alan Berliner and Annette Mangaard
Berliner, an American Jewish documentarian and Mangaard, a Canadian-Danish filmmaker have recently completed personal films on insomnia. How similar are Berliner’s Wide Awake and Mangaard’s Into the Night?