Hot Docs Winners Announced

Posted: 05/12/09 10:03AM
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65_REDROSES and The Cove
Hot Docs

The Cove and 65_REDROSES top audience favourites at fest. Meanwhile, The One Man Village and Invisible City win best feature awards.

Cams Over Burma: Burma VJ Reports

Posted: 05/06/09 10:22AM
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Christopher Manson

The incognito star of Anders Ostergaard's film about undercover reporting in Burma, "Joshua," tells us what it's like to be a journalist in a closed country.

Hitting the Jackpot

Posted: 05/06/09 8:48AM
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'Jackpot'
Hot Docs

In his documentary Jackpot, director Alan Black explores these questions and more as he follows several Bingo players' lives. AOL sat down with him to find out what it was really like living a Bingo lifestyle for a few years.

Crushing Cat Lady Cliches

Posted: 05/05/09 10:29AM
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Jenny in bed with some of her cats
Jenny in bed with some of her cats. (Hot Docs)

Christie Callan-Jones' Cat Ladies removes the stereotypes associated with women who have a close relationship with felines.

Video Killed the Dot-Com Star

Posted: 05/04/09 9:32AM
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Josh Harris in 'We Live in Public'
Hot Docs

Director Ondi Timoner exposes former dot-com millionaire Josh Harris and reveals how we can be destroyed by technology.

The Real Story of Rachel

Posted: 04/29/09 3:05PM
Filed Under: Hot Docs 2009

Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie. (Hot Docs)

Most people know the story of 23-year-old Rachel Corrie – or at least they think they know. In 2003, North American newspapers published the harrowing ordeal of the young American activist: while she was peacefully protesting the forcible removal of Palestinians from their homes in the Gaza Strip, she was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer.