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FREE MONTHLY PROGRAM MAY 2018 APRIL 26-MAY 6 HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL HOT DOCS TED ROGERS CINEMA SCREENINGS—PAGE 2 + Docs in Bloom PAGE 4 Delicious food and film pairings PAGE 5 Remembering Freaks & Geeks PAGE 5 25 years of outspoken voices and outstanding stories Official Opening Night Selection “Curiosity, empathy, “Feminist lawyer to —Hot Docs 2018 and awe.” – MUBI internet icon.” – Variety The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution Leaning Into the Wind: RBG Opens Friday, May 11 Andy Goldsworthy Opens Friday, May 18 Page 3 Opens Saturday, May 12 Page 3 Page 3 “Non-stop creativity.” Meet the revolutionary Exploring celebrity on screen, – The Hollywood Reporter landscape designer. the Hermitage and Pierre Trudeau Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Docs in Bloom: Five Seasons: Curious Minds Morning Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Speaker Series Opens Friday, May 18 Opens Friday, May 25 Spring courses begin May 15 Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 @HOTDOCSCINEMA /HOTDOCSCINEMA HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA 506 BLOOR STREET WEST (at Bathurst Street) 2 HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA HOT DOCS 2018: Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema Screenings MEMBERS SAVE UP TO 25% FIND FILMS. BUY TICKETS. HOTDOCS.CA ON TICKETS, PASSES AND PACKAGES THURS, APR 26 WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? THE BILL MURRAY STORIES: THUR, MAY 3 Sat, MAY 5 D: Morgan Neville | USA | 93 min | International LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM Premiere A MYTHICAL MAN NETIZENS D: Tommy Avallone | USA | 70 min | International See Sunday, April 29 for description Mr. Rogers created a neighbourhood in which he connected with children Premiere 10:00 AM through honesty, directness and love, “Bill Murray crashed my karaoke party.” while delicately introducing complex social “Bill Murray photobombed our engagement issues. His work continues to resonate pictures.” Everyone knows someone with today, but have we failed to become the a “Bill Murray” story, but this inspirational THE HEAT: A KITCHEN neighbours he hoped for? and drop-dead-funny detective doc hunts LOVE, GILDA (R)EVOLUTION down the myths and the man. Big Ideas Series See Saturday, April 28 for description D: Maya Gallus | Canada | 75 min | World Premiere Screening With: 6:30 PM 4:15 PM With hot tempers and brazen machismo, I Love Your FuckING NAME “bad boy” chefs have shaped the restaurant industry’s often merciless working LOVE, GILDA 9:30 PM TINY SHOULDERS: THE GAME CHANGERS conditions, but as women take command D: Lisa D’Apolito | USA | 84 min | International RETHINKING BARBIE D: Louie Psihoyos | USA, Canada | 88 min | Canadian of the world’s top kitchens, they’re Premiere TUE, MAY 1 D: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins | USA | 90 min | Premiere revolutionizing food service and challenging International Premiere its longstanding culture of harassment. The vulnerable and effusive spirit of Oscar-winner Louie Psihoyos’s (The Cove) beloved comedian Gilda Radner is brought With sales at a historic low and women’s explosive doc examines elite athletes’ to life through newly discovered audio Opening Night Screening rights campaigns at fever pitch, Barbie is dramatically improved strength and recordings, home movies, interviews getting a radical makeover. Gloria Steinem, performance when they switch from 9:30 PM with friends and diary entries read by Roxane Gay, Mattel designers and others animal- to plant-based diets, and upends performers she’s inspired, including Melissa renegotiate the iconic doll’s place in a antiquated notions of masculinity and McCarthy, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph. FRI, APR 27 world that both loves and loves to hate her. virility along the way. 9:30 PM MERCURY 13 ANOTE’S ARK 6:45 PM 12:45 PM D: David Sington, Heather Walsh | Ireland | 80 min SUN, APR 29 D: Matthieu Rytz | Canada | 77 min | Canadian | International Premiere BELIEVER Premiere The pioneers enrolled in NASA’s first female WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? See Tuesday, May 1 for description As rising sea levels threaten to swallow the astronaut training program finally open up See Saturday, April 28 for description Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, its president about their top-secret testing, which pitted 9:30 PM races against the clock to secure the future them against the established boys’ club of 1:00 PM of a population whose entire country may American astronauts of the 1950s. disappear in less than a generation. 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Set internet is a battleground—attempt to seek against the horrific violence of the 2017 justice and spread awareness, taking back CRIME + PUNISHMENT See Wednesday, May 2 for description Charlottesville riots, alt-right leader their power and their lives in the process. WED, MAY 2 D: Stephen Maing | USA | 111 min | Canadian Premiere Richard Spencer squares off against antifa 9:00 PM activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins in this Big Ideas Series Follow 12 NYPD cops as they risk their provocative look inside the two movements reputations, careers and safety to blow SUN, MAY 6 boiling over in America. 6:30 PM the whistle on unchecked corruption in the police force and the illegal summons and 9:30 PM arrest quotas that target minorities in low- TINY SHOULDERS: THE AMERICAN MEME income neighbourhoods. RETHINKING BARBIE Sat, APR 28 D: Bert Marcus | USA | 94 min | International See Thursday, May 3 for description Premiere 12:45 PM 10:00 AM MR. SOUL! In the age of social media mega-platforms, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. anyone can be famous, but take it from ALT-RIGHT: AGE OF RAGE D: Sam Pollard, Melissa Haizlip | USA | 102 min | D: Steve Loveridge | USA | 97 min | Canadian Paris Hilton, DJ Khaled, The Fat Jew and International Premiere Premiere See Friday, April 27 for description WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? other internet celebs: maintaining the See Saturday, April 28 for description Go backstage with the first all-Black followers, attention and sponsorships is a Two decades’ worth of personal footage 3:45 PM variety show broadcast nationally on PBS, full-time job that exacts a price. capture the complex evolution of M.I.A., and meet its openly gay host, who was the musician and social justice activist 12:45 PM instrumental in ushering radical Black 9:30 PM whose outspoken rhymes tore up the BELIEVER talent into American living rooms in the charts, stoked political fires and captivated See Tuesday, May 1 for description ROGERS AUDIENCE AWARD wake of the civil rights movement. fans and critics worldwide. MON, APR 30 ANNOUNCEMENT & SCREENING 6:45 PM On the closing night of the Festival, join 10:00 AM Big Ideas Series us to celebrate our Canadian filmmakers 6:30 PM and announce the winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary. BARBARA RUBIN AND THE EXPLODING NY UNDERGROUND 7:00 PM D: Chuck Smith | USA | 78 min | World Premiere MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. THE CLEANERS With one radically experimental short film, a teenager upended NYC’s underground I USED TO BE NORMAL: A See Wednesday, May 2 for description THE RECKONING: HOLLYWOOD’S D: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Germany, Brazil film scene of the 1960s. She went on to BOYBAND FANGIRL STORY WORST KEPT SECRET | 88 min | Canadian Premiere introduce Andy Warhol to Lou Reed, Bob 9:30 PM Dylan to Kabbalah, and bewitch Allen D: Jessica Leski | Australia | 96 min | World Dive into the shadowy world of internet D: Barry Avrich | Canada | 90 min | World Premiere Ginsberg—all before her mysterious death Premiere content moderators, where fingers at age 35. Eight years after acclaimed filmmaker hovering over the delete key judge From the Beatles to the Backstreet Barry Avrich first documented the within seconds the lines between art and Boys, One Direction to Take That, three 9:45 PM passionate genius of producer Harvey pornography, journalism and propaganda, generations of zealous boyband fans reflect Weinstein, he returns to tell Hollywood’s censorship and free speech—with far- on the objects of their obsessions and worst-kept secret: the sexual predation of reaching consequences both online and off. explore how the thrills, fantasies and roller- the disgraced kingmaker and the industry coaster emotions of fandom have changed that enabled him. Big Ideas Series and challenged their lives. 1:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:30 PM HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA 3 OPENING at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in May TICKETS MEMBERS BRONZE: $8 Silver: $6 $13 SAVE Gold: Free OPENS FRIDAY, MAY 11 The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution D: Maya Gallus | 2018 | Canada | 75 min | PG With hot tempers and brazen machismo, “bad boy” chefs have shaped the restaurant industry’s often merciless working conditions, but as women take command of the world’s top kitchens, they’re revolutionizing food service and challenging its longstanding culture of abuse. From New York City’s Anita Lo and Amanda Cohen to the queen of French cuisine Anne-Sophie Pic, seven chefs share their struggles to overcome a system of inequality while delivering delicious dishes.