My Hot Docs’19 recommendations continue. Here, I share my thoughts on two documentaries that remind us of the importance of language and culture. I highly recommend these…
READ MOREThis year’s installment of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is in full swing. I have previewed a few films already.
Below, I give you my thoughts on some of initial recommendations.
Located in Sarnia, Ontario, the Aamjiwnaang First Nations reserve and its 900 residents are smothered by one of Canada’s largest petrochemical corridors: the Chemical Valley. Siblings Vanessa Gray and Lindsay Beze Gray have dedicated their lives to fighting the pollution that threatens their community’s health, safety and future. In The Chemical Valley Project, theatre makers and friends Julia Howman and Kevin Matthew Wong document Vanessa and Lindsay’s vital activism and journeys as land defenders and water protectors.
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Beginning this summer, Outside the March (OtM) is inviting you to put your life on pause with a series of proudly analog movie-loving experiences hearkening back to yesteryear—or at least to the days before Netflix and Amazon Prime. The Popcorn Double Feature will see OtM take over the Annex’s historic Queen Video and open up its own VHS rental store (with a twist) for The Tape Escape, and transform Streetcar Crowsnest into a classic cinema for The Flick.
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One day you’re gonna be the one driving and a police officer is gonna pull you over. Cause they can. So they will. When that happens, what are you gonna do?
Canadian adventurer, writer and miner of song David Newland releases his first single and video for Musk Ox Stew, a cut from his upcoming album Northbound, a live album of original songs based on his travels in the Northwest Passage with Adventure Canada.
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In 1734, Marie Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman known for her outspoken disdain towards servitude and her masters, set fire to Montréal, completely destroying a hospital and dozens of houses including her owner’s residence…or so the story goes.
Young People’s Theatre (YPT) brings us the World Premiere of Under the Stairs by acclaimed British playwright Kevin Dyer. The play presents a theatrical but authentic portrayal of family strife.
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Art Thing in association with Prairie Fire, Please and in celebration of National Poetry Month bring us a new production of Canadian poet and author Molly Peacock’s solo show in poems, The Shimmering Verge.
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