Multidisciplinary film and theatre criticism
The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York …
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Director Daniel Sullivan makes the most out of Lillian Hellman's uneven Little Foxes, creating a showcase for Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon. …
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Indigenous musician Marie Clements discusses her musical documentary, The Road Forward, which chronicles Canada's Indigenous Civil Rights Movement. …
Director Kyoko Miyake talks Tokyo Idols, how the girls stay safe, and how the inherent sexism in this subculture isn’t that different from life in the West. …
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Ask the Sexpert follows Indian sex expert Dr. Watsa as he navigates the debate about sex education, his patients, and his fans, in this doc from Vaishali Sinha. …
When Yu Xinhua's Tumblr poem went viral, it gave her a new lease on life as a famous poet and eventually, a divorced woman, in Jian Fan's documentary Still …
Canadian documentarian Kalina Bertin takes an unexpected journey into her family history of bipolar disorder in her HotDocs film Manic …
Canadian filmmaker Ali Weinstein explores how putting on a mermaid tail can help women transform into mystical powerful beings in Mermaids. For tickets and more …
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Canadian filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum on how shoe shiners tell a story about class difference around the world in her HotDocs film Shiners. For HotDocs tickets …
Director Ann Shin and producer Hannah Donegan discuss the making of My Enemy, My Brother, Shin's poignant documentary about two men who fought on opposite sides …
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