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Hot Docs 2013 Capsule Review: Bending Steel
Dave Carrol’s ‘Bending Steel’ exists in the same inspirational cinematic sandbox as Rocky and Rudy. Sure, strongman feats like horseshoe twisting and telephone book tearing might fall into the fringe...
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Hot Docs 2013 Capsule Review: The Expedition to the End of the World
Only a day into my Hot Docs experience I already knew that The Expedition to the End of the World was going to be tough to top. Director Daniel Dencik provides further evidence that the Danes seem to...
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Hot Docs 2013 Capsule Review: Shooting Bigfoot
It’s probably fair to characterize director Morgan Matthews ‘Shooting Bigfoot’ as a bit of a freak show. Some of the people in this film come across as genuinely delusional. This is the dilemma I...
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Only the Young/Tchoupitoulas DVD Contest Winners
Congratulations to Nathan of Little Rock, AR, Hillary of Astoria, NY and Brian of Los Angeles, CA! They’re the lucky winners of a DVD copy of Oscilloscope Laboratories’ Only the Young/Tchoupitoulas...
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The Documentary Blog Podcast: Hot Docs 2013
This Hot Docs specific episode of The Documentary Blog Podcast was recorded in collaboration with The Film Junk Podcast. Listen to more episodes of The Film Junk Podcast here. 0:00 - Intro 2:44 -...
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‘Blackfish’ Official Trailer and Poster
I managed to catch Blackfish at Hot Docs this year and it was one of the better films of the festival. Now an official trailer has been released and I’m totally resold. This is a truly great trailer....
View Article‘Evocateur: The Morton Downey, Jr. Movie’ Redband Trailer
Yes!! Very excited for this one: Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial...
View ArticleDocumentary Short: Luke Meyer’s ‘Unlocking the Truth’
Filmed for The Avante Guard Diaries, Darkon co-director Luke Meyer’s Unlocking the Truth looks at twelve year old Malcolm Brickhouse and eleven year old Jarad Dawkins’ heavy metal band of the same...
View Article‘Oxyana’ Official Trailer
Some of you have surely seen Sean Dunne’s work. I’ve posted about many of his documentary shorts here at The Documentary Blog so be sure to make use of the search bar if you’re not already familiar....
View Article‘Blood Brother’ Director Launches Kickstarter For Follow-Up Film ‘Gennadiy’
Steve Hoover, director of the Sundance favourite Blood Brother has just kicked off a Kickstarter for his follow up documentary titled Gennadiy. Unfortunately I’ve yet to see Blood Brother but the...
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Kickstarter Campaign: ‘Jesse Heiman: World’s Greatest Extra’
Most people might recognize Jesse Heiman from Go Daddy’s controversial Super Bowl commercial in which he tongue kissed a model. For me, he’s the guy that popped up in the background of practically...
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Top 10 Documentaries of 2013
Things have been quiet around these parts as of late. I haven’t had much time (or inspiration, to be honest) to do much posting lately but I figured I’d join in with rest of the internet and share my...
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