The 2024 Oakville Film Festival is celebrating 11 years as Oakville’s only independent film festival. This year, the OFFA will present 104 specially curated Canadian, local, and international narrative and documentary films, as well as short films and web series.
I have taken a peek at the Oakville Film Festival lineup and have chosen some films as recommendations for you to see and support.
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The myth of María Lionza, a deity of the Venezuelan jungle, merges with the experience of a migrant filmmaker yearning for her lost Goddess. Over the years, the iconic statue in her honour became damaged by the passage of time.
Filmmaker Ximena Pereira began to document the debacle over the iconic statue. On the one hand, the ‘Broken Goddess’ was sheltered at the Central University of Venezuela. On the other, the Mayor’s Office of Caracas wanted to install a replica to replace the original piece.
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On my last day at Hot Docs this past May, I had the pleasure of seeing Carlota Nelson‘s ‘Eyes of the Soul: Cristina García Rodero’ (La Mirada Oculta). The film follows the life and work of world-renowned photographer Cristina García Rodero.
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Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival has revealed the full program lineup for its 34th edition today. The festival, which proudly champions innovative 2SLGBTQ+ filmmakers from across the globe, will showcase 106 films from 25 countries, including 30 feature films and 5 world premieres.
With such a tremendous lineup, I took a peek to select a few films to recommend to you to check out in person or online.
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The Kitchener Waterloo Film Festival (KWFF) proudly showcases films from an equal balance of local, national, and international filmmakers.
After four years of running on a strictly local-entry basis, this is our fourth year opening our unique festival to the world.
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Documentary Chasing Time reunites Extreme Ice Survey project lead and photographer James Balog with the Emmy-winning team behind Chasing Ice to capture the end of the epic undertaking and spotlight the power of an intergenerational effort to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future.
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Hot Docs has announced the winning documentaries from this year’s official competition, along with recognizing outstanding Canadian and international filmmakers through additional awards. The]awards were revealed at the Hot Docs 2024 Awards Presentation, held at the Centre for Social Innovation – Annex and hosted by arts journalist and co-founder of Media Girlfriends, Garvia Bailey.
A total of 15 awards were handed out, including 11 awards for Festival films in competition—of which 9 were won by female filmmakers—and CAD 75,000 in cash and prizes were awarded.
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In the 1950s, legendary high school basketball coach Lofton Greene led the recently racially integrated River Rouge High School Panthers to a record number of state championships in a league of otherwise segregated schools. Now, almost 70 years later, LaMonta Stone, a former Panther himself, has returned to the struggling industrial town of River Rouge, Michigan, to help the Panthers chase the school’s 15th State Championship.
In Rouge, Stone and four of his student-athletes, including Seniors Brent Darby Jr. and Ahmoni Weston, and junior Legend Geeter strive on their quest to fulfill generations worth of work on and off the court by preparing for their next chapter of life.
READ MOREIt is the first weekend at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Many films already had their premiere; nonetheless, many of these films will have a second, or perhaps a third, screening.
If you took a peek at my initial suggestions, you will know there are close to 200 documentaries to choose from. Here, I give you a few more recommendations of documentary films to see at Hot Docs.
READ MOREHot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (Hot Docs) returns to Toronto this week, from April 25 to May 5, 2024. From 2800 film submissions, this year’s slate will present 168 documentaries representing 64 countries across 16 diverse programs and will feature 51 world and 32 international premieres.
Fellow arts & culture writer Sammy Younan, of the My Summer Lair podcast, and I recently sat down to discuss our initial Hot Docs picks, as well as, some tips on attending the festival.
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