jvcarrington.bsky.social
Woke lobbyist (Racial Equity Media Collective) & professional movie nerd (curator of Hot Docs' For Viola community film series) • Formerly: Documentary Organization of Canada; TIFF • Toronto 📍
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Truly! Particularly after the backlash to Glazer’s speech last year, I’d kept my hopes low. But you sense the recent effort to bring more international members into the Academy really had an impact here.
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Finally, on Friday, Feb 7, it’s the For Viola presentation of NO OTHER LAND.
At latest count, we’ve had over 300 tickets booked, which puts us on pace to sell out pretty soon.
hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
Tell a friend and see you there. 🍉
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Out Jan 24: Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS is a tour-de-force vehicle for Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Playing a pathologically ornery British Jamaican mother, Jean-Baptiste’s searingly specific portrayal just bypasses chat about “Angry Black Women.”
The Best Actress race is surely over before it’s begun.
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From Jan 17, TIFF hosts a run of Johan Grimonprez’s monumental SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT, an essay film that’s somehow both super dense and thrillingly fluid.
It’s about jazz, African independence struggles, Lumumba's assassination, and a CIA psyop to turn iconic musicians into cultural weapons.
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UNION plays Hot Docs this coming Sat + Sun. A behind-the-scenes look at the struggle to unionize an NYC Amazon warehouse, it's is revealing, richly nuanced, and hugely timely.
It's also being self-distributed because none of your fave streamers wanted blowback from our billionaire overlords. 🙃
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On Friday, February 7, please join us at the Hot Docs Cinema for a community screening and discussion with special guests, to be announced.
Free tickets are now available via the link below. 👇🏽
hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
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NO OTHER LAND is also a portrait of friendship and solidarity between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist, a complex bond that lays bare the stark injustice of apartheid.
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Captured over four years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, NO OTHER LAND is a portrait of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta and its struggle against a relentless campaign of demolitions and expulsions carried out by Israeli occupation forces.
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Playing at Hot Docs for free on Feb 7, btw!
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Very pertinent to present events. And utterly madddening tbh. The scene towards the end where fire evacuees vote down proposed regulations to fire-protect their community really turbocharged my misanthropy.
It’s available for free on the CBS website: www.cbsnews.com/video/bring-...
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Have you seen BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE?
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By all means! 🤞🏽
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This has been particularly devastating to Hot Docs, imo. The festival to an extent (those NOW fest guides are sorely missed) but especially the cinema.
Docs don’t generally have stars or major marketing budgets so that local media ecosystem was especially crucial.
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Ahh, interesting. Thanks.
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Genuine question, intended respectfully: what’s the thinking behind not including docs?
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cc @milesofgray.bsky.social
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Love that.
In doing outreach for the screening I have learned that Mavis was apparently ubiquitous in Nigeria! I'm told the Nigerian school system just fully let Mavis take the wheel.
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Really appreciate you sharing!
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Thank you for the boost and kind words, brother! Appreciate you! 🙏🏽
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There is no #cybermonday discount on tickets to SEEKING MAVIS BEACON at the Hot Docs Cinema on December 13 because the tickets are already free.
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There is no #cybermonday discount on tickets to SEEKING MAVIS BEACON at the Hot Docs Cinema on December 13 because the tickets are already free.
hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
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Great insight here. I find Tokyo’s urban fabric intensely satisfying to traverse on foot and I’m also hugely partial to Japanese style and craftsmanship. But I hadn’t previously made the connections between those domains that this thread lays out.
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Free tickets are now available via the Hot Docs website.
Grab yours, tell a friend, and come through on December 13! 🆓🎟️🙏🏽
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A self-described "e-girl detective" mystery, SEEKING MAVIS BEACON follows Jazmin and Olivia as they attempt to track down the iconic Black woman who became the face of one of the best-selling software products of the 1990s ...and who abruptly disappeared at the height of the game's popularity. 💿💅🏾⌨️🕵🏽♀️
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Ay! Welcome!
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If festival-side folks/programmers are welcome, please feel free to add me!
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I am also the former Senior Industry Manager at Hot Docs, and I was the administrator of the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund when RUSSIANS AT WAR was selected to receive production support in 2022.
I have seen the finished film.
The notion that it is pro-Russian propaganda is bewilderingly upside down:
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Here's where I'm coming from:
Russia is very clearly engaged in an illegal and gravely immoral war of aggression in Ukraine and is responsible for countless deaths and incalculable destruction.
Putin's forces have committed innumerable war crimes and all responsible must face justice.
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No doubt.
Mind you! I did wonder if the cast should have shared the writing credit on this one because although this is Leigh’s standard process, this was the first time it’s been so apparent that the specificity of much of the language couldn’t have come primarily from him.
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What’s said about Curtley, what’s unsaid about Curtley, the actions he does and doesn’t take… hard to think of another film that’s able to give such a rich and complex impression of a character with such limited dialogue.
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At the risk of ratcheting those expectations still further, HARD TRUTHS is also my fave/funniest/most devastating film of the fest so far.