Danish singer and songwriter, Lukas Forchhammer, has been performing since his early childhood years. Being a member of a band was only natural for his life trajectory. In his early twenties, he became lead singer of the Danish band Lukas Graham. The band formed in 2011 and gained popularity across Denmark from their YouTube homemade videos of their songs.
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Canadian writer and filmmaker Sheona McDonald premiered two films at this year’s Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival.
One, a short documentary film Into Light, which captures a season of change as a mother and child navigate the complexities of gender identity together. The other, a feature documentary Dead Man’s Switch: a crypto mystery, a cautionary tale, about the short life & mysterious death of QuadrigaCX CEO, Gerald Cotten.
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Apenas el Sol (Nothing but the Sun) had its North American premiere at Hot Docs this week; it is Arami Ullón‘s second feature documentary. The film ties into the growing plight of Indigenous people everywhere who are working towards the conservation of their language and culture
Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies.
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Sharing more of my personal picks and recommendations of films screening at this year’s Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival.
Listing some features and short documentaries that I think you will find interesting and worth watching.
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This year’s Hot Docs opened with Ann Shin‘s thought- provoking documentary A.rtificial I.mmortality.
The film posits the question, If you could create an immortal version of yourself, would you? Drawing inspiration from her own life and her father’s memory loss, Shin speaks with experts in the field who suggest Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enable us to live forever and foresee a “post-biological” world where humans and AI merge.
READ MOREHot Docs is fully underway virtually available across Canada. I have put together an initial list of my own personal picks and recommendations for you.
Take a look below and hope you add some of these documentaries to your list!
Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival has announced that it will offer students currently enrolled in an accredited post-secondary institution and seniors over 60 years-of-age a selection of films to watch for free during this year’s online festival, available to stream nationwide.
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